From 1a07e3204eb9403f820048ed729d8eb721411584 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Boren <ryan@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:20:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Introduce the_author_posts_link().

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@1095 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-includes/template-functions-author.php | 32 ++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/template-functions-author.php b/wp-includes/template-functions-author.php
index c26d23d465..86993bbee6 100644
--- a/wp-includes/template-functions-author.php
+++ b/wp-includes/template-functions-author.php
@@ -1,15 +1,20 @@
 <?php
 
-function the_author() {
-    global $id, $authordata;
-    $i = $authordata->user_idmode;
-    if ($i == 'nickname')    echo $authordata->user_nickname;
-    if ($i == 'login')    echo $authordata->user_login;
-    if ($i == 'firstname')    echo $authordata->user_firstname;
-    if ($i == 'lastname')    echo $authordata->user_lastname;
-    if ($i == 'namefl')    echo $authordata->user_firstname.' '.$authordata->user_lastname;
-    if ($i == 'namelf')    echo $authordata->user_lastname.' '.$authordata->user_firstname;
-    if (!$i) echo $authordata->user_nickname;
+function the_author($idmode = '', $echo = true) {
+    global $authordata;
+    if (empty($idmode)) {
+        $idmode = $authordata->user_idmode;
+    }
+    if ($idmode == 'nickname')    $id = $authordata->user_nickname;
+    if ($idmode == 'login')    $id = $authordata->user_login;
+    if ($idmode == 'firstname')    $id = $authordata->user_firstname;
+    if ($idmode == 'lastname')    $id = $authordata->user_lastname;
+    if ($idmode == 'namefl')    $id = $authordata->user_firstname.' '.$authordata->user_lastname;
+    if ($idmode == 'namelf')    $id = $authordata->user_lastname.' '.$authordata->user_firstname;
+    if (!$idmode) $id = $authordata->user_nickname;
+
+    if ($echo) echo $id;
+    return $id;
 }
 function the_author_description() {
     global $authordata;
@@ -63,6 +68,13 @@ function the_author_posts() {
     global $id,$post;    $posts=get_usernumposts($post->post_author);    echo $posts;
 }
 
+function the_author_posts_link($idmode='') {
+    global $id, $authordata;
+
+    echo '<a href="' . get_author_link(0, $authordata->ID, $authordata->user_nicename) . '" title="' . sprintf(__("Posts by %s"), htmlspecialchars(the_author($idmode, false))) . '">' . stripslashes(the_author($idmode, false)) . '</a>';
+}
+
+
 function get_author_link($echo = false, $author_id, $author_nicename) {
     global $wpdb, $tableusers, $post, $querystring_start, $querystring_equal, $cache_authors;
     $auth_ID = $author_id;