[support] Blogs: URL and Taxonomy questions

[Neil: esl-lounge.com]

OK, I have finalised my blog node path in PathAuto:

blog/[author-uid]/[yyyy][mm]/[nid]

so I get for example: blog/4/200802/269

What I'm now struggling with is using Views with arguments (my great 
weakness!) to give me access to URLs such as:

blogbydate/2/200801 to see all of UID 2's entries for Jan 2008.

I already have a View set up where if I go to /blogbydate, I get:

January 2008 (2)
February 2008 (7)

where I can click on each and get a whole list of entries (in table or 
teaser/node format) for each month at the URL blogbydate/200802 for example. 
I suppose I can set up another View at "blogbyuser" at do a similar thing 
there but with "UID is author" as the argument. My question is...can I 
combine the two into one View with 2 arguments?

Neil


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie at users.sourceforge.net>
To: <support at drupal.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [support] Blogs: URL and Taxonomy questions


> Quoting "Neil: esl-lounge.com" <neil at esl-lounge.com>:
>
>> thanks for the answer Earnie.
>>
>>> Yes it is possible.  You need to turn on the path module and install
>>> the pathauto [1] module.  Depending on how you setup pathauto for the
>>> taxonomy terms you should be able to have what you want.
>>
>> Pathauto authors themselves suggest using views/args to achieve this. 
>> There
>> used to be something called index aliases in PA but it's been deprecated.
>>
>> Another query about blog URLs: isn't it bad practice to set up blog URLs 
>> to
>> use vocab terms?
>>
>> we use free tagging so users can append anything from 1-10 tags to each 
>> blog
>> entry. Pathauto takes the first one and uses it in the URL so we may have 
>> a
>> blog entry at:
>>
>> blog/385/my-first-job (using blog/[nid]/[term-raw] as our path)
>>
>
> At the node level I would use title and not [nid]/[term-raw].  You
> might consider even blog/[author-name]/[title].  Especially because of
> your next paragraph but I have a suggestion of that too.
>
> I would use the category level to create paths for the terms.  Note
> that the word ``category'' is used incorrectly in the pathauto admin
> IMO.  It really means term.  Of course it is broader giving you a path
> to list all blogs with that term.  So blog/[cat-raw] would list all
> blogs with the term.
>
>> but then Johnny User goes in and alters either the tags (quite likely) or
>> the order of them (not very likely) and suddenly the URL changes and
>> potentially many hardcoded links across the site, on our forum, etc, to 
>> that
>> blog entry die a horrible death. It would be the same if we used the 
>> title
>> of the blog in the URL.
>>
>> How do people cope with their users changing tags/titles if they use them 
>> in
>> URL paths? Isn't it a total unmanageable nightmare?
>>
>
> Somewhere in the list of modules [1] for CCK there is a field type that
> allows you to enter a node reference.  Then you don't need a hard coded
> paths unless of course it is to an external reference and who knows
> there may be modules to control that as well.
>
> [1] http://drupal.org/project/Modules
>
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