Add Date and Author to node.tpl.php - templates

Question

In the code below I'd like to show the created date, author and have them be linked but nothing for they do not show. I believe I need to be doing $node-> rather that row, haven't figured out the exact code. Or what if anything I need to change under Views in my Drupal 6 installation. Thanks in advance!
<?php if($node->type == 'blog'): ?>
<div class="blog-page">
<div class="title-post">
<div class="top-image">
<?php print $node->field_image[0]['view'] ?>
</div><!--TOP-IMAGE-->
<p>Posted on ?php $row['created'] ?>, by
<?php print $row['name'] ?></p>
</div>
<div class="content-page">
<?php print $node->content['body']['#value'] ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php else: ?>
<?php print $content ?>
<?php endif ?>

Answer 1

Drupal has a node object with tons of related information in it. Basically if you ever need to use information from it like author, date, title, etc, you can easily determine the code by printing the node object.
echo '<pre>';
print_r($node);
echo '</pre>';
lets say it outputted something like this for simplicity's sake:
stdClass {
nid = 3
content = stdClass {
raw = " ... "
clean = " ... "
}
}
To output those bits of information in your template, you'd write in the following way.
for a field with no subclass:
<?php print $node->nid ?>
for a field with a subclass:
<?php print $node->content['raw'] ?>
Does that make sense? after you get that down, you literally can figure out anything when programming drupal templates.
so, if you wanted to construct a url, you'd just chain it up:
<?php
$nid = $node->nid;
$uri = "some/path".$nid;
print $uri;
?>