Re: edit Blog-Author

On 3.10.2005 15:48 Uhr, Matthias Dieke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Christian Stocker wrote:
> 
>>
>> On 29.9.2005 22:56 Uhr, Matthias Dieke wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> when I make a blog post I like to use text-field for the author. Some
>>> times I want to use a authorname which isn't a user in Flux CMS.
>>>
>>> I edit "blogpost.xml" and replaced the author-dbform-element with a
>>> dbform-text-element  <dbform:field name="post_author" type="text"
>>> descr="Author" />
>>>
>>> I cleared the cache. When I "Make a new Blog post" I didn't get a
>>> text-field for the author. There is still the logedin user shown.
>>
>>
>>
>> This (blogpost.xml) is for the blogposts editor available over
>> "Bookmarks" -> Blogposts. There you should be able to change the author.
>> That's the normal dbforms(1) interface
>>
>> For the "normal" blog editor you have to change bx/editors/blog/post.xsl
>> (and maybe others stuff, didn't look deeply into it :) )
>>
> 
> The post.xsl is the right place to build up a input-field. I didn't know
> much about your blog-implementation. In wich file the sql-insert-query
> is send???
> 
> The problem is, when I enter a username always so the name of the
> logged-in user will be stored to the db. I had a look to
> "inc/bx/editors/blog.php", it seams that there a xml-file is builded
> with all data of the blog-entry. But I didn't find the right place where
> the authorsname is stored.
> 
> As you see I need some more infos ;)

Yeah, the blog code is quite scattered around. It's actually set in
bx/streams/blog.php in the function  insertEntry line 227.

$post->author = bx_permm::getInstance()->getUsername();

And it's totally missing in updateEntry, you'd have to add it there, as
well.

HTH

chregu

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> chregu
>>
>>
>>
>>> How can I use a text-field for the author?
>>>
>>> Thanks for help.
>>>
>>> Matthias
>>
>>
>>

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