Multi User Blog
tdh - March 29, 2008 - 03:28
I have been searching for what I figured would be an easy solution, but I cannot find any information. I would like to have a block with a text box that a site visitor can enter the name of the blog they would like to visit in a multi user blog installation. (blog/username) When they enter the username and click the submit button, "blog/" will be appended to the beginning and the blog/username page will open. Can anyone offer some assistance or point me to a php snippet that I may have missed?
Thanks,
Todd
This has been asked for by
This has been asked for by lotsa folks in both the blog and other node areas.
Two possible paths: use an organic group, or aggregate individual blogs' RSS feeds into an aggregator.
Or create a forum that only a limited number of folks can write to
Or create a dummy account that they all have the password of, but that is not as good.
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Maybe I wasn't clear on what I am looking for. I am just looking for sort of a dynamic link by text box to go to a url of the blog that is entered in the textbox. See this page for an example caringbridge.org/cb/visitAPage.do
I should also mention that
I should also mention that it is the blog module being used that it built into drupal. Any ideas?
Well I finally found a
Well I finally found a solution to the text box turned into url to visit a persons blog page in a multi blog setup. What I did was create a new block and published in full html mode and entered the following:
If you know the username of the blog you wish to visit, enter it here:<input type="text" id="where">
<input type="button" value="go to blog" onclick="window.location='/blog/' + document.getElementById('where').value">
This gives them a little message on what the box is for. Once they type in the username of the blog they wish to visit and press the 'go to blog' button, '/blog/' will be appended to the front of the username that was entered and the page will show. If they don't enter anything and just press the button, '/blog/' page will open, which is a collective page of all the user blogs. I thought that I would want to validate if the box was blank, but this actually works out better.
The only thing I need now is a way that they can enter the text and press enter, as of now pressing enter does not do anything and they have to click on the button. Any ideas?