Users List and Single Pages

Kirby 3 Questions 🤔
1

Is there any simple way to create a collection of pages that will use users list
check if they have any posts and on a detailed page show info about author and the list of the pages related to him

For now, I understand how to do it in this way:

  • create blueprint authors
  • create blueprint author with field user (to select from users list) and maybe some additional fields that not used in users collection
  • create templates authors / author
  • create manually all needed authors in backend and attach to them users

but how it could be done with virtual pages…? or any other algorithm to do it automaticly

2

I think i found solution, but still need to double check

First I check all unique authors that have some posts here:

$pages = pages('reviews', 'news')->children()->listed();
    
    $ids = $pages->pluck('author', '-', true);
	// get a list of all authors filtered by the ones with articles
	$array = kirby()->users()->filter(fn ($user) => in_array($user->uuid()->toString(), $ids, true))->toArray();

Then I create virtual pages for these authors

$authors = array_map(function ($author) {
  	  
  	$slug = Str::slug($author['username']);
      
    return [
		'slug'     => $slug,
		'num'      => 0,
		'template' => 'author',
		'content'  => $author['content']
	];
    }, $array);

the full model is looks like this:

<?php

use Kirby\Cms\User; 
use Kirby\Cms\Users; 
use Kirby\Cms\Page;
use Kirby\Cms\Pages;

class AuthorsPage extends Page
{
  public function children(): Kirby\Cms\Pages
  {
      
    $pages = pages('reviews', 'news')->children()->listed();
    
    $ids = $pages->pluck('author', '-', true);
	// get a list of all authors filtered by the ones with articles
	$array = kirby()->users()->filter(fn ($user) => in_array($user->uuid()->toString(), $ids, true))->toArray();
	
	
	$authors = array_map(function ($author) {
  	  
  	$slug = Str::slug($author['username']);
      
    return [
		'slug'     => $slug,
		'num'      => 0,
		'template' => 'author',
		'content'  => $author['content']
	];
    }, $array);
    
    
	return Pages::factory($authors, $this);
  }
}

Than on Author page I will be able to get username / avatar and find his articles by author uid
So it looks like this should works.