Multiple Authors

netpastor · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 9

Does anyone know if it is possible to allow multiple authors to one article in IJoomla mag?

I have an existing newsletter database with several hundred articles that I'm trying to import into the Ijoomla component; and one of the issues I've just figured is that the existing database has multiple author support; and in the case of these newsletters, it's quite a significant part of the tool (as often several authors contribute to one article)

Any ideas anyone?

Ian

merav · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:28 pm Post subject:

Hi,

Sorry but there is no way to assign more than one author for article, same as core joomla.

netpastor · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 9

dpk · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 23

bump!

Has anyone written a hack? The thing to do might be to parse the author alias field to look for names between separators (comma, "and") so "AUTHOR1, AUTHOR2 and AUTHOR3" generates 3 bio boxes at the end of the article if AUTHOR1-3 matches an author name in iJoomla.

netpastor · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 9

thanks for the idea with tweak;
i have worked on another answer to the same question though; by modifying the standard Joomla mod_related_items, and placing author names in the metatags of each article, and then displaying the mod in the right place on the page, this seems to work.
Each Author must have their own 'page' (article) to match the metatag search though
This then gives the end user editor a way to assign authorship; and also allows a display of authors and articles written by them.

dpk · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 23

that's an interesting solution. iJoomla allows you to show related items in the article sidebars, right? which leaves the core related items module available for use like this... However, this means you can't ever use the related items module for its intended purpose, or you'd have to make a copy of it for its intended purpose which would still display your custom author bio pages instead of just "related articles."

Also, unless you embed a modloadpositions tag or use another method to embed the related items module in the article on a per article basis, you will have the related items module appearing on all article pages whether it is being used for multiple authors or not. The related items module also lacks functions such as displaying nothing if there are no related items or limiting the number of related items that are displayed.

netpastor · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 9

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