MT 4.21 - Authors Tag

By ganthimathi on Nov 29, 2009 at 9:54 PM 6 Vote 0 Votes

I am using Movable Type Version: 4.21

I am trying to fetch the Author details based on display name specified as a condition.

The above code support to display only the Author name of the Authors Display name is 'Mathi'. But it displays all the Users in a blog.
How can I get this particular author details by having only display name.

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ganthimathi | November 30, 2009 12:05 AM | Reply

code:

 <mt:Authors display_name="Mathi">

<mt:authorname>

</mt:Authors>

SunilKT | November 30, 2009 3:24 AM | Reply
The above code should work fine..
Check this code:
```
<mt:Authors username="username">

<$mt:AuthorDisplayName$>

</mt:Authors>
```
ganthimathi | November 30, 2009 3:35 AM | Reply

hi sunil,
Thanks for the details. i have only the display name. i needs to fetch the author details from the display name of particular author. do you see any other options here to get the details?
SunilKT | November 30, 2009 6:07 AM | Reply

In which template you are using the above code?
Mihai Bocsaru | November 30, 2009 6:29 AM | Reply

I would be curious to hear where are you trying to obtain that result. On what template type.

The coding you've provided:

<mt:Authors display_name="Mathi">

<mt:authorname>

</mt:Authors>

Should work just fine!

You may also like to try:

<mt:Authors id="999">

<mt:authorname>

</mt:Authors>

Where "999" is the user ID for "Mathi"...
ganthimathi | December 2, 2009 3:26 AM | Reply

i have tried as you said. but it does not work :-(

options 'id', 'display_name' and 'username' both doesnot work in 4.21 version. is something not defined in 4.21 version?