Best solution to display authors profile with Kirby 2.2

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Hey there,

in Kirby 2.2 I’m now able to add custom Fields to users blueprints. I’m running my blog on Kirby and have around 5 to 10 editors. Now I can add the twitter account, bio and so on directly to the users own site.

The question is: how can I display the authors profile pages best? Till 2.1 I used a hack that i created a new page with the same username for each author (so that the URI is /authors/schmidtflo). On the article I was able to select the author from the existing users, and I get the connection to the authors profile page with the username. This is now not nessecary anymore.

What I want: I want automatically generated author profile pages (getting the informations from the users account page) and display them with the URI /author/username. How do I do it best?

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I think the best way to achieve this would be a router that calls a template and passes the user name from the url to the template. Not tested though.

You can, of course, also create real pages automatically by using a hook, but I don’t think this is necessary (and would just mean duplicating content)

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Hi @texnixe,

I’m interested in the router solution to show author profiles. Could you put a code example of passing the user name and call the author template?

Thanks

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Sure.
The router:

c::set('routes', array(
  array(
      'pattern' => 'authors/(:any)',
      'action'  => function($user) {
        $site = kirby()->site(); 	
        tpl::load(kirby()->roots()->templates() . DS . 'authors.php', array('user' => $user, 'site' => $site), false);
      }
  )
));

In your authors template:

<?php echo $site->user($user)->lastname() ?>

So if you call a URL http://yourdomain.com/authors/username, the template is called with that username.

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It works, but when I add the header snippet I get an error:

‘Undefined variable: page…’

Any idea about how to fix it?

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What are you doing with the page variable in the header snippet? Depending on that you might be able to inject a page variable (e.g. for home) into the template and snippet.

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Isn’t that always going to pass the home page because the authors pages don’t really exist and won’t be found?

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@FabianSperrle You are probably right.

@11bits: You would also have to pass the $site variable to the header and footer snippets:

<?php snippet('header', array('site' => $site)) ?>

Maybe you can leave the $page variable alone and just wrap the $page thingy in the header in an if-statement:

<?php if(isset($page)) { echo $page->title()->html(); } ?>

Edit: I deleted the post above because nonsense.

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Ok, the solution of the conditional to check if $page is set and the site variable works fine.

Now I need to pass the $pages variable for the menu, I tried to do it like the $site but it doesn’t work.

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This does not work?

c::set('routes', array(
  array(
      'pattern' => 'authors/(:any)',
      'action'  => function($user) {
        $site = kirby()->site(); 	
        $pages = $site->pages();
        tpl::load(kirby()->roots()->templates() . DS . 'authors.php', array('user' => $user, 'site' => $site, 'pages' => $pages), false);
      }
  )
));
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Exactly like @FabianSperrle posted above, plus you need to pass the $pages variable to the menu snippet in the authors.php template as well.

 <?php snippet('menu', array('pages' => $pages)) ?>
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It works perfectly. Now I can add custom fields for the user and show them in the author template.

Thank you for your help