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Who authored this node?

Sunday, 18 Feb 2007 — Caroline Schnapp

Say we have a node ID (nid), and we want to know who authored the Drupal node with that ID, and that author is not currently the user that’s logged-in, then we use the Drupal function node_load(). (The companion function to user_load()). The function node_load() either accepts a numerical value which is the nid of the node, OR it accepts an associative array containing information about the node, criteria against which the function will try to find a match, in the database. The function returns a node object. One property of this object is uid, that is, the user ID of the author of the node, and another is name, and that's the name of the author. Say we want to find the e-mail address of the author of node with node ID 25:

/* Using node_load with a node ID parameter */
$node = node_load(25);
/* Then using user_load with the user ID */
$user = user_load(array('uid' => $node->uid));
print t('You may e-mail @name at !mailURL.',  array(
  '@name' => $user->name,
  '!mailURL' => l($user->mail, 'mailto:' . $user->mail),
  )
);

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Thu, 2007-08-16 21:48 — Aaron Hawkins (not verified)

Drupal Goddess

You are a god damned Drupal Goddess... I throw digital flowers at your feet.
Your tutorials have taught me more in five minutes than three months of stumbling through the drupal.org forums.

Mon, 2008-01-28 07:40 — Premature (not verified)

In the lots of cases Drupal

In the lots of cases Drupal site sux((
Users ask same questions from year to year, no good FAQ or standard tutorials (how to make catalog using taxonomy for example...)
That's why I love blogs like 11heavens :)

Fri, 2011-01-14 02:47 — skin tag removal at home (not verified)

THank you for the post. The

THank you for the post. The site is just simply beautiful.

Sun, 2008-09-14 00:00 — vb6 (not verified)

Thanks

Thanks, Simple and effective. Will this work with Drupal 6?

Sun, 2008-09-14 01:29 — Caroline Schnapp

Sure

It should work as is in Drupal 6.

Thu, 2009-04-30 09:19 — Martin Baker (not verified)

Just what I was looking for,

Just what I was looking for, thanks!

Wed, 2009-07-22 03:36 — HGH (not verified)

Drupal tutorials

Thanks for your Drupal tutorials. My drupal knowlege have improved more and more from reading your blog posts.

Wed, 2009-08-05 19:30 — maestrojed (not verified)

Thanks!

Thanks for posting this, it helped me out!

Thu, 2009-08-06 10:54 — Caroline Schnapp

Thanks Jed!

:-)

Wed, 2010-06-09 09:17 — MAB (not verified)

Excellent! Concise, to the

Excellent! Concise, to the point and pretty damn useful.

Cheers!

Wed, 2011-09-14 06:18 — Pawan_kumar (not verified)

hi to all , really helpfull post

exactly i needed .
It saves my time , Thanks to the author

Fri, 2012-03-16 18:29 — Elvin Xhimitiku (not verified)

You saved the day

Doing some drupal 7 hacking and this came to great use. thanks

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