how can authors to define custom pages?

Question

I have a options page and i use this code.

I want this, I add author id on sometext field (e.g 3,2,5,11 ) and my author.php redirect custom author page.

My author.php

<?php $post = $wp_query->post;
$options = get_option('sample_theme_options');
 if (is_author( array($options['sometext']) ) ) {
 include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/brand.php');
}
else { include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/customauthor.php');
}
?>

Im adding Some Text field number like this 3,2,5,11

 <?php echo  $options['sometext']; ?>

And code Output: 3,2,5,11

But my author.php not working good. Just first id working other id not working.

How can i fix it?

Answer 1

You can do the following:

<?php

$post = $wp_query->post;
$options = get_option( 'sample_theme_options' );
$authors = explode( ',', $options['sometext'] );

if ( is_author( $authors ) ) {
    include ( TEMPLATEPATH . '/brand.php' );
} else {
    include ( TEMPLATEPATH . '/customauthor.php' );
}

?>

This way, you're always sure that $authors contains an array.