By battochir on

I would like to have a forum topic created using the User ID of each registered user as the title. Similar functionality is implemented in blogs...each user is assigned a blog based on User ID. Is it possible to do the same with forum topics? I have fiddled around quite a bit and have had partial success...not complete. From what I can tell, blogs seem to be different than other nodes because they are directly assigned to each User ID. It is this value assignment that is giving me troubles. I would appreciate any suggestions.

groets,
Wim

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battochir’s picture

battochir commented

I have done a chunk of this MANUALLY...and it works. The problem is after a user is logged in I must provide the forum topic creation and account links...MANUALLY. This is ok with 5 users....with 50,000 users it's problematic. Any suggestions are appreciated.

groets,
Wim

dries’s picture

dries commented

It's certainly possible but requires some code to be written to automate this. It can be done using the Drupal APIs/hooks so no need to hack core.

battochir’s picture

battochir commented

Thanks for the suggestion Dries. I spent the last couple of days going through Drupal and I finally got my 'hack' to work. But I don't like it. I am trying to attach user created reviews about other users to their respective profile page. For example, 10 users have something to say about me...they come to battochir's profile, follow the link, and they are taken to a form(forum node named after me with comments active) where they can write their comment. It just seems...simplistic. Drupal has much power in it's taxonomy system that, with my 'hacked' feature, I am not using. I would appreciate any opinions or suggestions on how to better use Drupal for this.

Wim

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

i suggest adding a tab on the user profile page called guest book. then let users post to a given user's guest book. give the owner of the profile the ability to remove ofensive posts fro mhis guest book. these features should all be provided by a new custom module.

battochir’s picture

battochir commented

Thanks for the reply weitzman. Your idea of adding a new tab is cleaner than my idea of assigning forums topics to each new user, but is not the end result the same? I mean, you would still have an area available for users to write about other users attached to the profile system independent of drupal's taxonomy system which is what I already have. Do you think this is the most efficient way, or would a taxonomy based solution use drupal better?

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

i am need of this module at the moment. thanks.