Advanced Profile Kit

Last modified: April 29, 2008 - 21:35

The Advanced Profile Kit uses Panels 2 as a base to combine many other contributed modules to create a user profile page useful on social networking sites. Because this is a "glue" module, installation and configuration take a bit of work, but the module will save you time over putting the modules together yourself.

In addition to a lot of "glue code", the module comes with these panels and views exports:

  • User Profile ( panel page - ?q=admin/panels/panel-page/userprofile/edit/general )
    This is the panel that takes over the user view tab. This is where all the action happens. It is made up of both mini panels and content added directly. The general idea is it takes in the user id from the URL and loads the node for the profile as well as views and other information based on that ID.
  • All About User ( mini panel - ?q=admin/panels/panel-mini/user_basics/edit/general )
    This contains the user picture (if any), general user stuff such as join date and links to contact, and general information from the profile node.
  • Guestbook ( mini panel - ?q=admin/panels/panel-mini/guestbook/edit/general )
    This is the comments and comment form for the profile node dressed up to look like a guestbook.
  • My Posts ( view pane - ?q=admin/panels/views/edit/user_tracker )
    "Tracker" view showing just topics participated in by the profile user.
  • My Buddies ( view pane - ?q=admin/panels/views/edit/buddylist_of_uid )
    Thumbnail/username gallery of the profile user's buddies. This is not included on the user profile panel by default but is available to be added. This requires usernode.

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