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

[Steve Hays]

Bill,

I've installed Advanced Help, studied the documentation for Arg in  
Views, and experimented with both Arg and Attachment.  I still haven't  
been able to make any progress.

I think that what you suggest may misconceive what I'm trying to do.   
It looks like your procedure would produce a list of entries in "Joe's  
Blog" and another page listing the entries in "Sue's Blog."

What I want is one page that lists all blogs on the site:
	Joe's Blog
	Sue's Blog,
	etc.

I have produced that in Views.  What I can't seem to manage is a way  
to include links to those titles that would take me to the top level  
of each--the equivalent of
	<a href = "/blog/joe">Joe's blog</a>
	<a href = "/blog/sue">Sue's blog</a>

I have available the variable $account_blog_url (from Profile) to  
supply the url, and as a workaround I have managed to replace the  
normal Drupal link from user-picture to "user/$uid" with a link to  
"blog/$uid" in template_preprocess_user_picture.  That is a clunky  
sort of workaround, though--requiring that I instruct the user, "Click  
on the picture to go to the blog."  There is no  
template_preprocess_user_blogname, which is a customized field I  
introduced into the Profile.  If there were, a simple Drupal linking  
at the preprocess level would seem to be the thing to do.  A  
programmer would probably know how to do such a thing, but I don't.   
And I simply can't conceive of how to do it in Views.

So, I guess I need more guidance if you have time and energy to  
provide it.

Thanks in advance,

Steve


On Jul 21, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Bill Fitzgerald wrote:

> 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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