[support] Generate automatic link to user's blog in profile

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Steve Hays <hays at ohio.edu>:

> I have added a field to Profile (profile_blog_name) that allows each  
> user to name or rename his own blog.  I have also hacked  
> drupal_set_title() at  blog>blog-pages.inc  to use that new field  
> content as the title that appears on the blog page.
>
> I then assembled a view that contains all active Profile blog-names-- 
> that is, a directory of all user blogs on the site.  Now I'd like to  
> add a link for each blog to that page.  I think the easiest way would 
>  be to add a hidden field to Profiles and automatically render it as 
> a  link at the time of user registration.  So, when someone registers 
> and  becomes $uid #125, the field is automatically completed as 
> $base_path/ blog/125 or perhaps it would need to be <a=href 
> ....>link</a>.  If I  can get the value into Profiles, I assume I 
> should be able to include  it as a Views field and that it should 
> propagate through the blog page  just like other fields.
>
> I'm just an old classicist trying to implement this for my students-- 
> not a programmer. Can someone please tell me whether this will work-- 
> and how to programatically generate the link in Profiles?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>

You might would rather take a look at the following contrib modules:

http://drupal.org/project/me
http://drupal.org/project/blog_addons
http://drupal.org/project/bloginfo
http://drupal.org/project/blogger

HTH,
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
-- http://give-me-an-offer.com/