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

[Victor Kane]

Hi Bill,

That sure sounds like good news! I am sort of embarked in the same thing...

Did you test upgrading Views 1 views to Views 2?

Victor

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Bill Fitzgerald <bill at funnymonkey.com>
wrote:

> 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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> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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