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I’m trying to display a list of all authors in a channel on a sidebar. Currently, I’m using the author variable but it creates duplicate listings of authors. For example, if there are five entries in the “blog” channel and John Doe authored three of them, then Jane Doe authored the other two, it would list as:

Jane Doe
Jane Doe
John Doe
John Doe
John Doe

How do I strip out the duplicates? I tried using the Query tag but I’m a SQL noob so my eyes glazed over and I got the shakes. Not good. Any advice? For the author display, not the shakes…

Bump.

Anyone have an idea for how to strip out duplicate display of authors? If there are two authors and they each have written three entries, it will list each author three times for a total of six. How do I just display each author only once?

If it’s just the names, this should get you close, set php to output in your templates.

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog" disable="categories|trackbacks|pagination"}
<?php
$authors[] = "{author}"; //loop through articles and load authors in array
?>
{/exp:channel:entries}

<?php
$output = array_unique($authors); //remove duplicates
?>
<ul>
<?php
foreach ($output as $name) {
    echo "<li>".$name."</li>"; //output unique names
}
?>
</ul>

Alright, this definitely helps. Thanks very much e-man.