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

[Bill Fitzgerald]

Hello, Steve,

First, I'd like to echo what Shai said -- ask away, as we have all been 
there.

Second, re your specific situation, would it work to filter your blog 
based on username?

If so, create a Views argument that filters based on username -- and, 
you can specify the title of the page with the argument setting -- and, 
you could set a header for the entire view.

Ping back if this is insufficient detail --

Cheers,

Bill

Steve Hays 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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