Show Winners Full Name

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zedimus — Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:26 am

I have been trying to show the winners Full Name in the Reports section and on the product page for the admin, i cant get them to work, I just want one to work.

On the product page i have tryed this

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{if isAdmin()}The high bidder is {$record->val('firstname')}{/if}

that just give me a blank space after The high bidder is

and i have tryed this

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{if isAdmin()}The high bidder is {$users->val('firstname')}{/if}

and that just breaks the site template and gives me a sql error.

Do i have to add something else to another file so it knows to take the first and last name or the full name from the high bidder.?

Thanks

David

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shannah — Wed Dec 10, 2008 2:49 pm

Hi Zedimus,

Where were you trying to add this code? If it was in the templates/view_product.html template, then you’re on the right track. You just need to notice that the product record is stored in a variable called $product in that template and not $record.

Now in order to get the winner’s full name you’ll also need to add a calculated field in the products delegate class to return the full name. Something like:

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function field__winner_full_name(&$record){     $winner = df_get_record('users', array('username'=>'='.$record->val('high_bidder')));     if ( !$winner ) return null;     return $winner->val('firstname').' '.$winner->val('lastname'); }

(assuming that the firstname and lastname columns exist in the users table).

Then in your template you would be able to use this field:

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{$product->val('winner_full_name')}

-Steve

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zedimus — Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:04 am

Thank you steve That worked perfect.

David