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[almo136]

Hi I have this code which outputs the author of a posts aim id in wordpress:

<?php the_author_meta('aim'); ?>

What I would like to do is replace the question mark below with the value from the above code.

<?php
aim_tracks('?', 7, false, true, false, false);
?>

I tried this but it didn't work:

<?php
$aim = the_author_meta('aim');
aim_tracks($aim, 7, false, true, false, false);
?>

Any ideas?
Thanks!

[eelixduppy]

Try to use this:

aim_tracks(get_the_author_meta('aim'), 7, false, true, false, false);

The problem was the_author_meta() echo's the data, whereas get_the_author_meta() returns it.

[almo136]

perfect. Thank you.