<div dir="ltr">Hi Bill,<br><br>That sure sounds like good news! I am sort of embarked in the same thing...<br><br>Did you test upgrading Views 1 views to Views 2?<br><br>Victor<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Bill Fitzgerald <<a href="mailto:bill@funnymonkey.com">bill@funnymonkey.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Shai Gluskin wrote:<br>
> <snip good stuff><br>
> As an aside... Drupal 6 is really awesome... but it's having a long ramp up<br>
> time for many good reasons. In general, for someone seeking support, ease of<br>
> use and is a "beginner" - I recommend D5 at this moment in time. Sounds like<br>
> you may be pretty far in and it isn't worth starting over.<br>
><br>
Three or four weeks ago I would have agreed with this. However, having<br>
spent some quality time recently with Views2, CCK, Date, Calendar, and<br>
OG, I'd say that the time of D6 has arrived. These modules have been<br>
working incredibly well in the testing we have been doing.<br>
<br>
Views2 is phenomenal -- it was pretty amazing in the D5 version, but the<br>
D6 version is an amazing leap forward -- and, IMO, easier for a newcomer<br>
to use, especially with the Advanced Help module installed.<br>
<br>
My .02<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Bill<br>
> Shai<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Steve Hays <<a href="mailto:hays@ohio.edu">hays@ohio.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
><br>
>> Shai,<br>
>><br>
>> Many thanks both for your help and your kindness.<br>
>><br>
>> Since you urge me not to knock my head against the wall too long,<br>
>> here's a problem I have probably spent 10 hours on and not produced a<br>
>> reasonable solution to--just a hacked work-around.<br>
>><br>
>> I want my students to be able to develop individual blogs. I have<br>
>> developed (via Views in Drupal 6.3) a page that lists all Member<br>
>> Blogs. I have added a blog_name field to the Profiles page, and<br>
>> obviously I would like that name to be linked to the individual blog.<br>
>> The blog's default url is (of course) blogs/$uid. I have constructed<br>
>> a blog_url field in Profile so I can pull it along with the blog_name<br>
>> in Views.<br>
>><br>
>> But that makes for an ugly page display: My_Blog http:// etc.<br>
>><br>
>> What I would like, of course is to use the $account_blog_url variable<br>
>> in an a href statement so the url address is invisible to the user,<br>
>> but I don't know how to get Views or Profiles to produce such a link.<br>
>><br>
>> Any ideas?<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks again,<br>
>><br>
>> Steve<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Jul 21, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Shai Gluskin wrote:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>>> Steve,<br>
>>><br>
>>> Do NOT feel stupid. We've all been there and continue to be there in<br>
>>> many ways.<br>
>>><br>
>>> It's way more efficient in use of the world's resources (which<br>
>>> includes your brain power) for you to ask and get quick help -- it<br>
>>> took me three minutes to write that email, than for you to bang your<br>
>>> head, potentially for hours. People have helped me so many times and<br>
>>> I'm sure you will help others -- or already have. No knowledge in<br>
>>> Drupal is "comprehensive" -- you don't have to be a "ninja" or<br>
>>> anything special to answer a question that you know the answer to.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Regarding your situation. Congratulations on figuring it out.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Indeed, no need to use the Drupal l() function.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Regarding the href-- there are different opinions on this, and<br>
>>> sometimes it depends on whether you have a multi-site or not. But my<br>
>>> strong preference for any single installation site is for all href's<br>
>>> to pages inside the site to be "root relative." All references<br>
>>> should start with a forward slash after the first quotes. In this<br>
>>> case I would no need to provide any specific page path since it is<br>
>>> the default home page. Here is how I would do the href:<br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="/"><br>
>>><br>
>>> best,<br>
>>><br>
>>> Shai<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
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