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I'm curious if anyone else may have tried to do something similar. I have to publish articles for a campus newspaper and I would like to log in and contribute articles but have them post under the name of any of several authors, also users on the geeklog system. My attempt was to go into the storyeditor.thtml and put in a segment like this: <select name="author_selector"> {author_list} </select> ...and then in the story.php file add the following near line 282 of version 1.3.6: $story_templates->set_var('author_list', DB_query("SELECT fullname FROM gl_users"); This does not create any syntax errors, but it gives me an empty dropdown menu rather than a list of all users. Any ideas why this doesn't work?

You can't just stick a PHP array into a <select> tag and hope that it works ... Every author name needs to be in an <option> tag and you need to loop over the array as well. Have a look at how the list of authors is built in search.php (in function searchform(), around line 94), this should give you a better idea. But that's only part of it - you also need to check which author was selected when the story is saved. bye, Dirk