Thread starter below Discussion title

oinkfu

So how would you got about adding the thread starter below the Discussion title on say the main discussions page. I have a custom theme, I can see the discussion.php in views/modules is the one I want to edit, but is there a variable available to me to print out here? Any help on this? Thanks in advance.

oinkfu

oops, I can see views/discussions/helper_functions.php is the one I want... such a hack.

oinkfu

okay so these variables:

$Discussion->FirstName; $Discussion->FirstUserID;

Are available it would seem they're what I need but - I'm just wondering what the Garden way of doing something like this would be, other than to php hack together the name and profile url from these variables in the helper_functions.php? Thanks and any help is appreciated.

oinkfu

So this is my hackjob, if someone has any input on the Garden way to do this, I'd appreciate it... Thanks!

/themes/mytheme/views/discussions/helper_functions.php:

<?php $AuthorName = $Discussion->FirstName; $AuthorID = $Discussion->FirstUserID; echo '<span>by '; echo '<a href="/profile/'.$AuthorID.'/'.$AuthorName.'">'.$AuthorName.'</a>'; echo '</span>'; ?>

garymardell

There is an event called
$Sender->FireEvent('AfterDiscussionTitle');

So you could write a plugin that uses that event to echo the name.

oinkfu

I have no idea what you just said, but I like the look of it.

garymardell

I wrote you a plugin for it,
http://www.trackgigs.com/AuthorName.zip

Its just basic to give you the idea.

oinkfu

Whoa, holy hell. Thanks a bunch man.