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1. Anonymous
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   Posted 8 years ago #
   

   I want to turn the "author=#" field from the GET http call into an author name ... any ideas ?
   In other words, I have:
   http://mysite/index.php?author=2
   and I want to change that "2" into "johnny boy", or whatever.
   I need to do this outside the loop.
   cheers,
   e

2. Kafkaesqui
   
   Posted 8 years ago #
   

   get_userdata($author);
   If that fails, try:
   get_userdata($_GET['author']);
   Then you can assign user/profile data this way:
   $name = $profile->user_firstname . ' ' . $profile->user_lastname;
   Or perhaps:
   $name = $user->user_nickname;

3. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 8 years ago #
   

   cool beans ...
   that worked great.

4. e-head
   Member
   Posted 8 years ago #
   

   Actually, this worked and then stopped working ... I hadn't tested with many different authors yet I guess.

   Try this though ... so far it is working:

   $myuser = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $tableusers WHERE ID = '$author'");
   $nick = stripslashes($myuser->user_nickname);

   author needs to be passed as a GET variable, or somehow needs to be set. This is the author's ID, or number, I think.

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