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

[Bill Fitzgerald]

Shai Gluskin wrote:
> <snip good stuff>
> 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.
>   
Three or four weeks ago I would have agreed with this. However, having 
spent some quality time recently with Views2, CCK, Date, Calendar, and 
OG, I'd say that the time of D6 has arrived. These modules have been 
working incredibly well in the testing we have been doing.

Views2 is phenomenal -- it was pretty amazing in the D5 version, but the 
D6 version is an amazing leap forward -- and, IMO, easier for a newcomer 
to use, especially with the Advanced Help module installed.

My .02

Cheers,

Bill
> 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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