automaticall adding the current user to comments

Thursday 19 February 2004 10:42:41 am

Hi

Does anyboy know how i can use the current logged in user name to fill in the Author field of the comments class?

Paul

Friday 20 February 2004 2:49:20 am

ok that gets me a bit closer by using {$current_user.contentobject.name} in a standard form. but when i try to replace the attribute_edit_gui line in the following code with the ==new code== listed below my text edit box display the name but when i post the data is not sent.

==existing code==
{let author_attribute=$content_attributes_data_map.author}
<div id="subject">
<label>Subject</label><div class="labelbreak"></div>
<input type="hidden" name="ContentObjectAttribute_id[]" value="{$author_attribute.id}" />
{attribute_edit_gui attribute_base=$attribute_base attribute=$author_attribute}
==existing code==

==new code==
{let current_user=fetch('user','current_user') }
{attribute_edit_gui attribute_base=$attribute_base attribute=$current_user.contentobject.name}
{/let}
==new code==

Saturday 21 February 2004 4:29:56 pm

thanks for your help alex. I have had a few days off of this and given it a bit of thoughts.

1./ my users will be logged in
2./ I have setup permissions to the comment class to aloow create and edit and self
3./ When the user posts they should become the owner of the object
4./ i hoped that {$node.subtree|attribute(show,2)} would spit out the creator.name but it does not :( i just get a smaller subset of information for the subtree objects. please see below:

i think the line
>creator object[ezcontentobject] Object
is of interest and my suspision lead me to think that the creator/owner is the ezcontentobject

Attribute Type Value
0 object[ezcontentobjecttreenode] Object
>node_id string 108
>parent_node_id string 47
>main_node_id string 108
>contentobject_id string 175
>contentobject_version string 2
>contentobject_is_published string 1
>depth string 3
>sort_field string 9
>sort_order string 1
>priority string 0
>path_string string '/1/2/47/108/'
>path_identification_string string 'news/test'
>name string 'test'
>data_map array Array(7)
>object object[ezcontentobject] Object
>subtree array Array(1)
>children array Array(1)
>children_count string 1
>contentobject_version_object object[ezcontentobjectversion] Object
>sort_array array Array(1)
>creator object[ezcontentobject] Object
>path array Array(2)
>path_array array Array(4)
>parent object[ezcontentobjecttreenode] Object
>url string 'news/test'

Monday 23 February 2004 2:06:03 pm

thanks alex attribute(show,3) gets it. now i just need to work out how to access it with my code. i will have a look one night this week if i get time :)

Monday 23 February 2004 5:57:20 pm

if you specified only logined users can add comments, then I think a better way to achieve this is as follows:

remove the username and email attributes from commment class, and only leave the title and body attributes. Then as every object created will link to its creator, so you can find out later which user is the owner of a particular comment, and all the information you stored in the content object of this user.

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Tuesday 24 February 2004 5:47:16 am

Paul, I am glad you got it up and running. Using <i>attribute(show)</i> and working through each of the levels taught me a lot to say the least!

Alex

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