Flexilist Module -- lists posts of a user given a content type (e.g. john's literature posts)

Thanks, Seth! Enjoyed creating the program although the cache -- http://drupal.org/node/32813 -- gave me problems, at first. :)

Re ctype #'s, do you mean the url?

Seth,

Aok. :) The content type name part of your feature request can be implemented, but I think the module will need further work. Regarding the user name part, am not sure because user names can be more than one word. Am sticking for the moment with the current url format since the module will need overhauling for the url's to be more meaningful. What's important right now is that the module works. We'll see.:)

Marandb,
Honestly, I don't have any idea -- have tried to think of other ways, but so far I've come up empty. Other more experienced coders might be able to help. At any rate, for the moment, I've included another feature which you might find useful. Using hook_user, one of the content types appear at the user profile, e.g., Literature - view recent literature entries. Have tried adding for all types, but hook_user I think can only return one array of strings, thus only one link (if any of you more experienced programmers know how to iterate through all the flexinode types, would be glad to know :)). Here's the added code (already in the latest attached module file) -- just replace 6 with your desired content type id.

/**
* Implementation of hook_user().
*/
function flexilist_user($type, &$edit, &$user) {

$ctype_id = 6;

$ctype = flexinode_load_content_type($ctype_id);

if ($type == 'view' && user_access('access content', $user)) {
return array(t('History') => form_item(t(ucfirst($ctype->name)), l(t("view recent $ctype->name entries"), "flexilist/$ctype->ctype_id/$user->uid", array('title' => t("Read %username's latest $ctype->name entries.", array('%username' => $user->name))))));
}

}

Also added hook_help for the admin/modules part so that the module description is included. :)

Marand,

Your reply reminded me that I figured this out before I went to sleep. Thanks. :)

1) Is it possible / how would one add another hook for an additional flexinode type?

Just create another module. For example say you have a "review" content type, then create review.module with hook_user as the code. Review.module would have the following code (say, with 7 as content type id):

<?php
/**
 * Implementation of hook_user().
 */
function review_user($type, &$edit, &$user) {

  $ctype_id = 7;

  $ctype = flexinode_load_content_type($ctype_id);
  
  if ($type == 'view' && user_access('access content', $user)) {
    return array(t('History') => form_item(t(ucfirst($ctype->name)), l(t("view recent $ctype->name entries"), "flexilist/$ctype->ctype_id/$user->uid", array('title' => t("Read %username's latest $ctype->name entries.", array('%username' => $user->name))))));
  }

}
?>

2) Is it possible to change where on the user profile page the flexinode links appear? (This may be more of a theming issue)

The only way I know is to change the category -- that is change 'History' to say 'User Content.' It will create another category in another part of the profile page.

Hi Ber,

Sorry about that. When I was creating the module, my immediate goal was just to create a quick and dirty solution, so to speak, and didn't have the time to study how to format the code of a module nor how to contribute to the CVS. And I'm not even sure if I'll have the time to study now. But who knows. :)

Hi Ber,

Sorry about that. When I was creating the module, my immediate goal was just to create a quick and dirty solution, so to speak, and didn't have the time to study how to properly format the code of a module nor how to contribute to the CVS. And I'm not even sure if I'll have the time to study now. But who knows. :)