Getting Wordpress Blog Authors in Combobox

Introduction

I expected wordpress to have some built in support for listing all authors of the blog in a select box but that is not the case yet in Wordpress 2.9.2.

I was certain that I can get this done using wp_list_authors but actually it was a not that straight forward and so let me share this with you. I think this will help those looking for such functionality.

The Code

What I did is replaced the content of list items ( <li> ) into select box options ( <option> ) and added a JavaScript function to redirect user to the url when there is a change in the selection in the selection box.

So here is the code.

Code:

<select id="AuthorList" name="AuthorList" onchange="goAuthorList();">
	<?php 
	$authargs = array(
		'optioncount'   => false, 
		'exclude_admin' => false, 
		'show_fullname' => false,
		'hide_empty'    => true,
		'echo'          => false, // We will not output using the function.
		'feed'          => false, 
		'feed_image'    => false,
		'style'         => 'list',
		'html'          => true 
	); 
	$var_list = wp_list_authors( $authargs ); // Take the output into a variable.
	// Replace the tags of list to option box
	$var_list = str_replace("</a></li>","</option>",$var_list); 
	$var_list = str_replace("<li><a href=","<option value=",$var_list);
	// Now output the list
	echo $var_list;	
	?> 
</select>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
    function goAuthorList() {
	// JavaScript function to change the user to the url of the author
		theSelAuthor = document.getElementById("AuthorList").value;
			if ("" != theSelAuthor) location.href = theSelAuthor;
    }
//-->
</script>

Enjoy !!!

 

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