Missing Author Names

I've been getting Party Freak set up all week. i've noticed that none of the authors' names are appearing. You see "Written By.." but no author name appears, blog pages or individual article pages.

I've verified that the article manager has this feature enabled.

Joomla 1.5.18
JomSocial 1.6.290


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Hi

Please send me ftp access details and show me where thous author namem do not show up.

Hi

I will also need joomla panel access. Site is not reacting to my changes. Got to check if I'm working on the right file.

Hi

All looked good. So I've just replaced the code for simple one:

WAS:

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<?php $this->escape(JText::printf('Written by', ($this->escape($this->article->created_by_alias) ? $this->escape($this->article->created_by_alias) : $this->escape($this->article->author)) )); ?>

IS:

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Written by <?php echo $this->article->author ?>


But I think the problem can be with cache. I had to clean cache after every change in php code. Even the database values was not being overwritten.

Please take a look on that and tell me if this is allright.

PERFECTO!!!

Thank you for your assistance.

Have a great week.

Hey, I'm sorry,

I just realized that a couple of the articles where there is an Alias, show the users name who submitted it, not the writer who show receive attribution which we typically insert in the alias box.

How should that code be modified for that?

Hi

For example:

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$author = $this->article->author;
if( trim( $author ) == '' ) {
$author = $this->article->created_by_alias;
} // eof if()

echo 'Written by' . $author;