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

[Shai Gluskin]

Steve, one more thing...

To be clear, the blogger module doesn't replace the blog module, it provides
some extra functionality for it.

Shai

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com>
wrote:

> 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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