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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