display different things in theme

[charles]

can someone explain for beginner how to display different things in a theme?

for example in this post https://community.nodebb.org/topic/8328/display-different-things-in-theme

what do you need to write to simply display the post timestamp or the user's signature?

[a_5mith]

I clicked your link twice thinking I was going down some sort of link rabbit hole. Signature is enabled in the ACP.

[charles]

@a_5mith i should make it more clear.

how to display them using code? i see things like {posts.editedISO} so is that how to display different things? if so how do i know and where do i find those things? is there a guide to learn from?

[yariplus]

@charles I usually just add /api to the beginning of the url for the page you are trying to edit. It will give you a json object, which is what the {posts.editedISO} is referring to. For example, https://community.nodebb.org/api/topic/8328/display-different-things-in-theme/2

Advanced: You can also add any data to that object using the controller hook for that page, e.g. https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/src/controllers/topics.js#L290 and editing the templateData.

[charles]

@yariplus using your example, let's say I want to display the content and then the person that posted that content.

would it be {content} and {username}?
and can I put in that in any file?

[yariplus]

@charles In my example, posts is an array, so it would need to be:

<!-- BEGIN posts -->
{posts.username}
{posts.content}
<!-- END posts -->

[charles]

@yariplus trying out the code you provided, I was able to display {posts.content} but {posts.username} is not working.

[pichalite]

@charles it's {posts.user.username}

[charles]

@pichalite @yariplus thank you both!