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@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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