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Newbie question on getting author name by id

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    xgenvn Reply #1, 15 years, 2 months ago
    Hi,
    I’ve been searching around to find something fit my need, which returning author name of a resource by his id.
    I found one but it was for Evolution version. I’m using Revolution and its APIs do seem differently, I’m on API page now to read and fix the authorTime snippet and I’m sinking when diving in. While I’m trying to figure out how to work with modx API, hope that someone here has already had a working solution that might share.
    Thanks.
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      xgenvn Reply #2, 15 years, 2 months ago
      Thanks for metaFormat snippet, I’ve read and found what i need in it. Here are the simple code I use to solve this simple problem. I’m not really familiar with the revolution coding style and working method. Hope I will adapt it well soon. Patience is the greatest thing I think I will learn when adapting to modx.
      Besides, sorry for my bad English.

      	  
if (!isset($modx)) return '';
$user = $modx->getObject('modUserProfile', $modx->resource->get('editedby'));
return $user->get('fullname');
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        BobRay Reply #3, 15 years, 2 months ago
        Looks good.

        You could also use:

        $user = $modx->resource->getOne('EditedBy');


        Note the capital letters in "EditedBy".
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          xgenvn Reply #4, 15 years, 1 month ago
          Quote from: BobRay at Aug 01, 2011, 05:44 PM

          Looks good.

          You could also use:

          $user = $modx-> resource-> getOne(EditedBy);


          Note the capital letters in "EditedBy".

          Well, I didnt realize it existed in API. Is that xPDO method?
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            splittingred Reply #5, 15 years, 1 month ago
            Quote from: xgenvn at Aug 01, 2011, 10:44 PM

            Well, I didnt realize it existed in API. Is that xPDO method?

            Yes. It’s actually:

            $user = $modx->resource->getOne('EditedBy');

            (with quotes)

            http://rtfm.modx.com/display/xPDO20/Working+with+Related+Objects


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              BobRay Reply #6, 15 years, 1 month ago
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                xgenvn Reply #7, 15 years, 1 month ago
                Quote from: splittingred at Aug 01, 2011, 11:48 PM

                Quote from: xgenvn at Aug 01, 2011, 10:44 PM

                Well, I didnt realize it existed in API. Is that xPDO method?

                Yes. It’s actually:

                $user = $modx->resource->getOne('EditedBy');

                (with quotes)

                http://rtfm.modx.com/display/xPDO20/Working+with+Related+Objects




                Hi, thanks for your reply, I’m diving into the docs.
                Thanks again.