If author

Contents

• Syntax
• Attributes
• Examples
  • Example 1: Select a stylesheet based on author
• Genealogy
  • Version 4.3.0

Syntax

<txp:if_author>

The if_author tag is a conditional tag and always used as an opening and closing pair, like this…

<txp:if_author>
    …conditional statement…
</txp:if_author>

The tag will execute the contained statement if the called page is the result of an article search by a specific author’s name.

Note: This is not the same as checking if the current article was written (posted) by the given author. Use if_article_author for that situation.

Attributes

Tag will accept the following attributes (case-sensitive) as well as the global attributes :

name="author"

Comma-separated list of author names.

Default: unset, which determines whether ‘any’ author listing is being viewed.

type="context" v4.3.0+

Textpattern context to check against. You can choose from the following contexts (set to empty to include all contexts):
article is this an article author list?
image is this an image author list?
file is this a file author list?
link is this a link author list?

Default: article.

Examples

Example 1: Select a stylesheet based on author

Selects a stylesheet named author_list when a list by author admin is being displayed, or a stylesheet determined by the active section for normal page display.

<txp:if_author name="admin">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="<txp:css name="author_list" />" media="screen">
<txp:else />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="<txp:css />" media="screen">
</txp:if_author>

Other tags used: else, css.

Genealogy

Version 4.3.0

type attribute added.