/**
* Returns an object of the author of this posting. This object may be BlubberUser
* or BlubberExternalContact or any other object that implemenst the
* BlubberContact-interface (see there).
* @return \BlubberContact
*/
public function getUser()
{
if ($this['external_contact']) {
$statement = DBManager::get()->prepare("SELECT * FROM blubber_external_contact WHERE external_contact_id = ? " . "");
$statement->execute(array($this['user_id']));
$data = $statement->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
if (class_exists($data['contact_type'])) {
$user = new $data['contact_type']();
if (is_a($user, "BlubberContact")) {
$user->setData($data);
return $user;
}
}
$user = new BlubberExternalContact();
$user->setData($data);
return $user;
} else {
return new BlubberUser($this['user_id']);
}
}
