By 72dpi on

hey All.

Sorry, n00b question.

Tried to find this out, spent ages mucking around.

Does this require a special module to make the url look like:
mysite.com/user/72dpi
rathre than:
mysite.com/user/1

Any info will save me another hour of scratching my head..

thanks =)

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vm commented

investigate the path.module (part of core) and create url aliases where needed. there is documentation on the path.module in the handbook under core modules. You may also want to investigate the pathauto.module to automate some of the url aliasing tasks, this documentation can also be found in the handbooks under contrib modules.
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72dpi commented

Thanks very, yeah, i found out how to rewrite urls that i want.

Just that I plan on having this as a more personal type site, so every user, instead of viewing their profile to be : user/1 , user/25 etc, would be : user/72dpi, user/bob etc.

I have seen many sites around that do this, and assumed it was a plugin/mod to use Username, instead of Userid. I want this to be ann automed rewrite, not manual.

Cheers for the reply mate!

BTW, this system is so awesome. I have never needed a Community type site before, and was looking at getting one custom built for an environmental project, then i found out how powerful this is. Simply amazing.

Cheers again =)

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vm commented

for automation inspect pathauto.module, although you may want to hop on the bleeding edge and test pathauto.module 2.x and the token.module as you may find it opens a few more doors.
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72dpi commented

Thanks mate, will do =)