Hi,

I'm trying to add an 'author-pane' to node pages (a bit like author profile module but that isn't ready for D7).

The info I need is basically just the author pic, node-type, and creation date. These are all present in the node object.

But I'm not sure how to print the pic uri in a page.tpl.php file.

Using dpm/devel I think the problem is that the full node object isn't presented to the page templates - for example, picture is a string whereas when looking at dpm($variables) for a node preprocess function picture is a full object (with the uri, etc. contained).

So does anyone have an idea how to achieve this?

Thanks,