Should author be set to logged-in user?

[timkelty]

It is unclear from the docs if the author should be set for new entries if the user is logged in. Doesn't look like it currently does.

[timkelty]

It doesn't look like it it listening for an author/authorId in the request either, so you'd have to do something like this:

        Event::on(
            GuestEntriesSaveController::class,
            GuestEntriesSaveController::EVENT_BEFORE_SAVE_ENTRY,
            function (GuestEntriesSaveEvent $event) {
                $entry = $event->entry;
                $currentUser = Craft::$app->getUser()->getIdentity();

                if ($currentUser) {
                    $entry->authorId = $currentUser->id;
                }
            }
        );

[stursby]

@timkelty Thank you for this! I was also trying to assign the currentUser to the author (with no luck from the front-end <form>). This did the trick!

[brandonkelly]

Yeah the plugin isn’t concerned with the logged in user – the whole point is to provide a save-entry endpoint for guest users; if you have an entry saving form for logged-in users, ideally that is going through the entries/save-entry controller, as demonstrated by the Entry Form example in the docs.

[timkelty]

@brandonkelly yep - I think the use-case here is having a form that can do either - submit as a user or anonymous.

So, you could either do as I did above, or toggle the action to entries/save-entry in your template based on currentUser.