Retrieving a page's author

[Clarke Bishop]

Splash provides the page object in request.page. But, the author information is not automatically retrieved from the database. I have some layouts where I need to display the author.

 

I have two questions:

 

1.       Do I have to modify Viewer.cfc to retrieve the author information when request.page is originally created?

<cfset request.page = model('page').findOneBySlug(value=”#params.slug””, include=”author”)>

 

Instead of:

<cfset request.page = model('page').findOneBySlug(params.slug)>

 

I tried this and it does include an author object in request.page. But, none of the actual author information is in the author object.

 

2.       Or, does the Page object remember it’s author association, and can it retrieve the author information later.

If so, I could do request.page.someCoolFunctionCall() to get the author. Will this work, and what’s the syntax?

 

Thanks for any ideas. I admit I still haven’t fully grasped associations and models in Wheels and all the cool ways you can access the data!

 

   Clarke

Office: 770-642-1353
eMail: cbi...@resultantsys.com

 

[Russ Johnson]

Sorry I have been so slack on replying lately... was way too busy last week and this week has been pretty crazy too..

There is an author tag, although its limited right now to only outputting the name attribute of the author for the current page that its called from.. thats probably where I would start instead of adding things to viewer.cfc. Using the tags keep things uncoupled and helps with the flexibility.

Feel free to expand on the author tag to do what you need. I know it needs more functionality and admittedly havent looked at the Radiant author tags to see what they do.

- Russ

[raulriera]

SplashCMS hackathon :D!!

> > eMail: cbis...@resultantsys.com

[Russ Johnson]

Ha ha nice! We need to take a day on the weekend when everyone has some time, jump on Skype and start banging out fixes and features... I have so many things I want to do with it and just not enough time, and when I do get time, I end of finding something else that needs my attention so it gets pushed off.. maybe if we set aside some hack time I would be more dedicated to doing it...

[raulriera]

Im up for that!! we can start by slicing the layout :)

[Russ Johnson]

Was working on that tonight already... lol

[raulriera]

Hehe then bug squashing and features it is :D

[Clarke Bishop]

Sounds great! When?

Clarke

[raulriera]

I am free.. whenever you guys get a change... just let me know when

[Clarke Bishop]

It's pretty easy to schedule me, too. Russ?

[Russ Johnson]

Im usually pretty free on the weekends... this weekend is out though due to my sister-in-law and her family being in town this weekend...

Aside from that Im usually pretty open since I make my own schedule...

[raulriera]

i am going to throw something here Saturday 27... all day :D

[Russ Johnson]

lol... the day of my sons 8th birthday party... ok.. im usually free with that exception ;)

[raulriera]

You pick the date :P

[raulriera]

Im still free for this :)