Default Node Locations to Author's Location

I'm exploring hook_form_alter for this, but I dunno if it can be done that way yet.

Apparently instead of hook_form_alter, it's hook_locationapi. My only trouble now is getting access to $user->location, which seems to exist according to devel module, but I don't see it when I do

global $user; print_r($user);

If you solve that before me, then let me know and I should soon have some working code to fill in a node's location fields with the author's location information from their profile.

Yeah so I realized (mostly by asking merlin) that global $user isn't the full $user object. So now I have it worked out in principle:

1) make a module that implements hook_locationapi and copy the relevant parts of location_locationapi to it

2) replace the default value definitions (mostly just $obj) like so (for e.g. postal code)

            '#default_value'  => $obj != '' ? $obj : location_alter('postal_code'),

3) the definition of location_alter is

function location_alter($field){
  $location_alter = array();
  global $user;
  $uid = $user->uid;
  $location_alter = user_load($uid);
  $location_alter = $location_alter->location;
  return $location_alter[$field];
}

I'm not exactly sure how the data is being handled so step 2 might need some tinkering but I'm not there yet.

This is what I got working for me

can this work for version 5?

tagging.

step 1) at admin/build/modules i enabled
-location
-location node author (this module)
-node locations
-user locations

step 2) at admin/content/node-type/story

i edited a content type so it had maximum of 1 location, 1 location that can be added at once

step 3) at admin/user/settings

basically same as step 2, i set maximum 1 location, 1 location that can be added at once

step 4) in user/1/edit

i set "location name" to "this", "street" to "that", and "additional" to "the other thing" and save

step 5) on node/add/story

the location information for the user appears

I'm not sure if this is the functionality you meant, but this is what this module does.

This worked for me on a copy of Drupal 6.3 (should have done it on the latest, but alas...)

here's my backport of this module to drupal 5 (now with more README.txt! -- the exact same documentation applies to the D6 version above, too)

Great that works really well. Thanks for this little module.

Only one thing I noticed that I need to get working. I am using tokens to basically build the content path based on the users's location which makes this little module very helpful for me. Most of the location fields are working fine except for the "_name" ones like "location-province_name". Any chance that we can get this working?

I would also suggest making this into a proper module as I think it might come in handy for quite a few people.

Thanks again

If I use location field in userprofile node type, is it possible to get it default in other content types?

taking a look at this and my thought would be to extend the default of the user too using geouser.

I want to use geouser to get the city, region, and country that a user is in
use it to pre-populate $user->location as a default.
That way i am not always asking the user to fill in their location information.

this module looks like it can work with some tweaking.

I was thinking of something along these lines

global $user;
if geouser module is installed then {
if ($user->location['city'] == '') $user->location['city'] = $user->content['geouser']['city'];
if ($user->location['region'] == '') $user->location['region'] = $user->content['geouser']['region'];
if ($user->location['country'] == '') $user->location['country'] = $user->->content['geouser']['country'];
drupal_set_message ('Your location has been set to '. $user->location['city'] .' ,'. $user->location['region'] .' ,'.$user->location['country']);

}

Does this seem like the right start? I could use some real programmers to just help flesh it out.

Thanks,
Chris

Geouser defines this:
$account->content['geouser']['country']
$account->content['geouser']['region']
$account->content['geouser']['city']

Will this node work with cck location?

Chris

How does this module work if there is more than one user location?

Chris

Will this get its own distribution? or be a subset of the location module and included?

This is a very specific request that is probably best served by some one-off custom code in a hook_form_alter() implementation.

Two years later, this saves me. I love you.

Hey futuresoon, thanks that works as stated, but is it possible ton inherit LAT/LONG as well? At the moment it inherits everything else but the coordinates. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Would be great if it did pass the lat/long, but i would like to know how to change the default country in the locnodeauthor.

Is there anyone with the capabilities to get this going for 7.x?