Reference User/Author Image

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Reference User/Author Image

al-escape

Hi guys,

I created a custom field in the User section so I could upload an image that would become the 'authorimage' but I'm having trouble referencing it in the PHP/HTML ... I want it to show up at the bottom of articles. I've tried article_custom_field('authorimage') which I suspect doesn't work because this is not a post type custom field but when I try user_custom_field I error out. Any thoughts?

craig

al-escape I think adding this function to the anchor/functions/users.php would do the trick.

/**
 * Get a custom field value for a user
 *
 * @param string   $key     name of the field to retrieve
 * @param string   $default (optional) fallback value
 * @param int|null $id      (optional) field ID
 *
 * @return string custom field value
 * @throws \ErrorException
 * @throws \Exception
 */
function user_custom_field($key, $default = '', $id = null)
{
    if ($id == null) {
        $id = user_authed_id();
    }

    if ($extend = Extend::field('user', $key, $id)) {
        return Extend::value($extend, $default);
    }

    return $default;
}

al-escape

That awesome Craig, thanks so much for your quick response! Loving using Anchor so far.

craig

No problem al-escape

I'm glad! If you have any more problems either post here or make an issue on Github

al-escape

craig

Hey Craig, I'm having trouble getting the script to retrieve the user_custom_field image for the article's author. For some reason it's only pulling in whatever 1 of the authors in my account has for an image.

I've got the following:

function user_custom_field($key = 'authorimage', $default = '', $id = null)
{
if ($id == null) {
$id = user_authed_id();
}

if ($extend = Extend::field('user', $key, $id)) {
    return Extend::value($extend, $default);
}

return $default;

}

TomG

Hello Anchor users. I'm having the same issue.

I figured out that Craig's script successfully retrieves a user_custom_field key IF I'm logged in to Anchor CMS admin page. If I'm signed out, nothing is retrieved. I only have one user as admin.

I noticed the code above is very similar to article_custom_field except

$id = Registry::prop('article', 'id');

is replaced with:

$id = user_authed_id();

Perhaps this could be part of the issue?