private function AuthorPaneBlock::findAuthor in Author Pane 8.3

Attempts to find the author for the current page.

Return value

\Drupal\user\UserInterface The author user entity.

1 call to AuthorPaneBlock::findAuthor()

AuthorPaneBlock::build in src/Plugin/Block/AuthorPaneBlock.php

Builds and returns the renderable array for this block plugin.

File

src/Plugin/Block/AuthorPaneBlock.php, line 101

Contains \Drupal\author_pane\Plugin\Block\AuthorPane.

Class

AuthorPaneBlock

Provides a Author Pane block.

Namespace

Drupal\author_pane\Plugin\Block

Code

private function findAuthor() {

  // Check if we are on a profile page.
  $author = \Drupal::request()->attributes
    ->get('user');
  if (!is_null($author)) {
    return $author;
  }

  // Check if there is a node context we can pull the author from.
  $node = $this
    ->getContextValue('node');
  if (!is_null($node)) {
    return $node
      ->getOwner();
  }

  // @TODO: Figure out how to make this work in other situations.
  // No source found for the author.
  return NULL;
}