[support] Well, then ... taking advantage of Shai's generosity: adding links to user blognames

[Shai Gluskin]

Hi Steve,

Looks like this module does what you want:

http://drupal.org/project/blogger

However, it is for D5. Check the issue queue and see what the time line for
D6 is.

There might be a solution using views. You shouldn't need profile module at
all for this, if I understand your needs. A custom snippet might do the
trick if the blogger module isn't going to be ready soon for D6. In general,
I think your approach you are taking is more complicated than it needs to
be.

As an aside... Drupal 6 is really awesome... but it's having a long ramp up
time for many good reasons. In general, for someone seeking support, ease of
use and is a "beginner" - I recommend D5 at this moment in time. Sounds like
you may be pretty far in and it isn't worth starting over.

Shai

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Steve Hays <hays at ohio.edu> wrote:

> Shai,
>
> Many thanks both for your help and your kindness.
>
> Since you urge me not to knock my head against the wall too long,
> here's a problem I have probably spent 10 hours on and not produced a
> reasonable solution to--just a hacked work-around.
>
> I want my students to be able to develop individual blogs.  I have
> developed (via Views in Drupal 6.3) a page that lists all Member
> Blogs.  I have added a blog_name field to the Profiles page, and
> obviously I would like that name to be linked to the individual blog.
> The blog's default url is (of course) blogs/$uid.  I have constructed
> a blog_url field in Profile so I can pull it along with the blog_name
> in Views.
>
> But that makes for an ugly page display:  My_Blog  http:// etc.
>
> What I would like, of course is to use the $account_blog_url variable
> in an a href statement so the url address is invisible to the user,
> but I don't know how to get Views or Profiles to produce such a link.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Jul 21, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Shai Gluskin wrote:
>
> > Steve,
> >
> > Do NOT feel stupid. We've all been there and continue to be there in
> > many ways.
> >
> > It's way more efficient in use of the world's resources (which
> > includes your brain power) for you to ask and get quick help -- it
> > took me three minutes to write that email, than for you to bang your
> > head, potentially for hours. People have helped me so many times and
> > I'm sure you will help others -- or already have. No knowledge in
> > Drupal is "comprehensive" -- you don't have to be a "ninja" or
> > anything special to answer a question that you know the answer to.
> >
> > Regarding your situation. Congratulations on figuring it out.
> >
> > Indeed, no need to use the Drupal l() function.
> >
> > Regarding the href-- there are different opinions on this, and
> > sometimes it depends on whether you have a multi-site or not. But my
> > strong preference for any single installation site is for all href's
> > to pages inside the site to be "root relative." All references
> > should start with a forward slash after the first quotes. In this
> > case I would no need to provide any specific page path since it is
> > the default home page. Here is how I would do the href:
> >
> > <a href="/">
> >
> > best,
> >
> > Shai
> >
>
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