About Me Block

By potential on 30 Nov 2005 at 00:07 UTC

Hi All,

I am designing an "about me" block which will contain the avitar, name, location, and bio. The code for this type of block exists here: http://drupal.org/node/20165

 <?php
  if (arg(0)=='blog'){
    $uid = arg(1);
    $account = user_load(array((is_numeric($uid) ? 'uid' : 'name') => $uid, 'status' => 1));
    profile_load_profile(&$account);
    echo("<div align=\"left\">");
    if (isset($account->picture)){
      echo("
        <img style=\"float: left; padding: 2px\" src=\"$account->picture\" height=\"60px\">
      ");
    }
    if (isset($account->realname)){
      echo("
        <b>Name:</b><br>
        $account->realname<br>
      ");
    }
    if (isset($account->country)){
      echo("
        <b>Location:</b><br>
        $account->country<br>
        <br>
      ");
    }
    if (isset($account->biography)){
      echo("
        <br>
        <em>$account->biography</em><br>
        <br>
      ");
    }
    echo("
      </div>
      <div align=\"right\">
      <a href=\"http://www.yourdomainnamehere.com/user/$account->uid\">more</a>
      </div>
    ");
  }
?>

My problem however, is that info in the about me block is based off which user is viewing the page, not off which user created the page. In other words, if I am looking at my friends blog on the site, his page would show an about me block with MY info in it instead of his.

How can I customize the code to show the "about me" info based off who created the page, not who's viewing the page?

THANKS!

-Dan

Comments

Replace

merlinofchaos commented 30 November 2005 at 00:24

Replace

    $uid = arg(1);

with

    $uid = YOURUSERID;

(You can extract your uid from your my account page's URL)

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I don't think I want it to

potential commented 30 November 2005 at 01:34

I don't think I want it to be specific to one particular user ID... I want it to be based off who's blog it is. So if I (username "dan") view brian's blog at www.website.com/blog/brian I would want the "about me" block to fill in brian's picture and information, not my own.

ditto

cel4145 commented 30 November 2005 at 01:40

I'd like to know how to do this to. This would be great for sites with multiple personal blogs. For instance, I have some class sites that could use it. The "About Me" block could just pull from an "About Me" field where the user could put in a blogroll, bio, whatever they want in that field.

Aha! Ok, that's not at all

merlinofchaos commented 30 November 2005 at 02:10

Aha! Ok, that's not at all difficult.

  // This works because of the way aliases work.
  if (arg(1) == 'blog') {
    $uid = intval(arg(2));
  }

  // If not a user's blog, or is the top level blog page,
  // return and don't print a block.
  if (!$uid) {
    return;
  }

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Thanks for your help.

potential commented 30 November 2005 at 03:15

Thanks for your help. Unfortunatly, still having trouble. I tried to implement the code you suggested as you can see here:

<?php
  if (arg(1)=='blog'){
    $uid = intval(arg(2));
  }
  if (!$uid) {
    return;
  }
$account = user_load(array((is_numeric($uid) ? 'uid' : 'name') => $uid, 'status' => 1));
    profile_load_profile(&$account);
    echo("<div align=\"left\">");
    if (isset($account->picture)){
      echo("
        <img style=\"float: left; padding: 2px\" src=\"$account->picture\" height=\"60px\">
      ");
    }
    if (isset($account->realname)){
      echo("
        <b>Name:</b><br>
        $account->realname<br>
      ");
    }
    if (isset($account->country)){
      echo("
        <b>Location:</b><br>
        $account->country<br>
        <br>
      ");
    }
    if (isset($account->biography)){
      echo("
        <br>
        <em>$account->biography</em><br>
        <br>
      ");
    }
    echo("
      </div>
      <div align=\"right\">
      <a href=\"http://www.yourdomainnamehere.com/user/$account->uid\">more</a>
      </div>
    ");
  }
?>

What did I do wrong?

I think I may have put

merlinofchaos commented 30 November 2005 at 03:32

I think I may have put arg(1) where I should have put arg(0) and arg(2) where I should have put arg(1). Sorry about that.

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Wait a minute. The code I

merlinofchaos commented 30 November 2005 at 03:35

Wait a minute. The code I wrote looks like it's actually very much the exact same code as what you quoted.

Now I'm very confused as to why you're getting YOUR profile out of that when you should be getting the profile of the person whose blog you're looking at. Mulling this over some.

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I wasn't clear. When I use

potential commented 30 November 2005 at 03:40

I wasn't clear. When I use the code I last posted, i get this error in the block:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '}' in F:\www\htdocs\includes\common.inc(1857) : eval()'d code on line 42

Ok, so I tried cut & pasting

merlinofchaos commented 30 November 2005 at 03:42

Ok, so I tried cut & pasting that code (being the code you initially posted). Other than a minor error in the code (There should not be a & in front of $account) it actually works perfectly for me, and load the account for the user whose blog I'm looking at.

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Yeah, geez, I'm sorry for

potential commented 30 November 2005 at 04:15

Yeah, geez, I'm sorry for all the confusion. I have it working now using the original code. Thanks for your help Merlin.

I do have one other question for you. I'm also trying to make a block on each blog only visable to the creator of that blog. Other users would not see this block unless they were on their own blog.

<?php

merlinofchaos commented 30 November 2005 at 05:50

/*
 * This snippet, intended for a block, will display nothing
 * if the current user is not the owner of the blog being
 * viewed.
*/
  if (arg(0) != 'blog'))
    return;
  
  global $user;
  if (!$user->uid)
    return;
  if (arg(1) != $user->uid)
    return;

  // Insert code here, or HTML after the

.
?>

Aside from any typos I may've made, that ought to do the trick.
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Perfect. you're the man.

potential commented 30 November 2005 at 14:08

Perfect. you're the man. I'll give it a try tonight

this is great!!!!

thinkinkless commented 3 December 2005 at 23:00

I stumbled across this thread just as I was getting totally frustrated trying to implement a blogroll based on a user profile field. This code works perfectly!

Here is the trimmed-down version I used in a block to display the user's blogroll (textarea in the profile that allows filtered html).

<?php
  if (arg(0)=='blog'){
    $uid = arg(1);
    $account = user_load(array((is_numeric($uid) ? 'uid' : 'name') => $uid, 'status' => 1));
    profile_load_profile($account);
    echo("<div style=\"text-align: left;\">");
    if (isset($account->profile_blogroll)){
print check_output($account->profile_blogroll);
    }
else print "no links added";
  }
?>

There's a section in the

merlinofchaos commented 4 December 2005 at 00:24

There's a section in the handbook about PHP Snippets. You should repost this there, explaining what it does.

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done!

thinkinkless commented 4 December 2005 at 02:11

Added here:
http://drupal.org/node/39858

I'll post more as I do more blogcentric stuff. I will also have lots of user profile stuff to share.

works great!

cel4145 commented 4 December 2005 at 02:30

Just tried it. This is something I have wanted. Thanks a bunch :)

check the code

thinkinkless commented 4 December 2005 at 17:10

Hey cel4145, I forgot to close the div in the initial code I submitted. If you style the block it will have issues.
sorry!
The book page has been edited.

Glad it helped, though!

sidenote: does anyone know why the book page
http://drupal.org/node/39858
does not show up on the list for php block snippets?

updated and pages showing

cel4145 commented 4 December 2005 at 19:58

Thanks. I updated the block to use the new version that does not have the div.

As to your sidenote, pages do not show up in the book navigation while they await moderation. It's been approved now, so it shows up. If you ever need other book pages approved, feel free to contact me.

What If 'blog' Not in arg(0)?

daniel read commented 4 February 2006 at 21:51

(Updating this comment a few hours after I originally posted it--after I thought about it I figured out what the disconnect was.)

It took me a moment to figure out that the /blog/ path referred to in this thread points to the home page of the blog, whereas /node/ is used on the individual posts. So I can see how this code that looks for 'blog' in arg(0) and the user id in arg(1) would work.

My initial confusion arose because my goal was different: to find a way to pull from a profile field based on the author of a node, and not only on the main blog page for a user.

Does anyone know of a technique to accomplish this same thing under that circumstance? In other words:

- determine author of post
- load author's user profile
- print profile_blogroll field

I can use the settings on the block configuration page to control which page types this block appears on.

Thanks,
Dan

Have you found an answer?

brenda003

she/her

commented 16 February 2006 at 07:38

Have you found an answer? I've also been trying to figure this out. I need the block to appear on each blog with an "About Me", not in their list of blogs page.

This is a quick piece and

merlinofchaos commented 16 February 2006 at 16:52

This is a quick piece and may need to be cleaned up.


  if (arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1)) {
    // This line works for Drupal 4.7; if using 4.6 uncomment the line below it and comment this one.
    $node = node_load(arg(1));
//    $node = node_load(array('nid' => arg(1)));
    if ($node->type != 'blog') {
      return;
    }
    $user = user_load(array('uid' => $node->uid));
  }
  if (arg(0) == 'blog' && is_numeric(arg(1)) {
    $user = user_load(array('uid' => arg(1)));
  }
  if (!$user) {
   return;
  }

  // ... insert your snippet here. $user is loaded; if it's a blog node, $node is also loaded.

}

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About me block

brenda003

she/her

commented 16 February 2006 at 18:48

I still can't get this to work. I try so many things but nothing shows up in the block at all, and yes I have it turned on. A bit stumped here, can someone please help?

I ended up using the patch

brenda003

she/her

commented 17 February 2006 at 15:01

I ended up using the patch here to the profile module.

Brenda,

sulleleven commented 7 March 2006 at 19:31

Brenda,
this patch.... does it allow for display on the blog page or only blog node page?

Unfortunately only blog node

brenda003

she/her

commented 10 March 2006 at 04:44

Unfortunately only blog node page. I've been trying to find a way to get it to display on both with little luck as of yet.

Ironically the blogroll module I want to use only displays on the blog page and NOT the blog node page. Go figure.

Geez

merlinofchaos commented 10 March 2006 at 16:12

An imbalanced parens and nobody can figure this out? I'm not sure people should be messing with PHP snippets if you're not willing to learn the basics of how the language works.

Anyway, here's the cleaned up snippet that actually works:

  if (arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1))) {
    // This line works for Drupal 4.7; if using 4.6 uncomment the line below it and comment this one.
    $node = node_load(arg(1));
// $node = node_load(array('nid' => arg(1)));
    if ($node->type != 'blog') {
      return;
    }
    $user = user_load(array('uid' => $node->uid));
  }
  if (arg(0) == 'blog' && is_numeric(arg(1))) {
    $user = user_load(array('uid' => arg(1)));
  }
  if (!$user) {
   return;
  }
  // ... insert your snippet here. $user is loaded; if it's a blog node, $node is also loaded.

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Great Snippet

Guy Shepperd commented 20 March 2006 at 20:59

I wanted to say thanks for the snippet.

I have modified it a little to make it work for me, I now have it work ing on all pages except Forum posts.

here is what I have working.

<?php

    $uid = arg(1);
    $user = user_load(array((is_numeric($uid) ? 'uid' : 'name') => $uid, 'status' => 1));
    profile_load_profile(&$user);
    if (arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1))) {
    // This line works for Drupal 4.7; if using 4.6 uncomment the line below it and comment this one.
    $node = node_load(arg(1));
// $node = node_load(array('nid' => arg(1)));
    if ($node->type != 'blog') {
      return;
    }
    $user = user_load(array('uid' => $node->uid));
  
  }
  if (arg(0) == 'blog' && is_numeric(arg(1))) {
    $user = user_load(array('uid' => arg(1)));
  }
    if (arg(0) == 'forum' && is_numeric(arg(1))) {
    $user = user_load(array('uid' => arg(1)));
  }
  if (!$user) {
   return;
  }

  // ... insert your snippet here. $user is loaded; if it's a blog node, $node is also loaded.

  if (isset($user->name)){
      echo("
	  <b>UserID:</b>$user->name<br><br>
        <b>Name:</b><br>
        $user->profile_name<br>
		<b>Location:</b><br>
        $user->profile_Location<br>
        <br>
		<b>Country:</b><br>
        $user->profile_country<br>
        <br>
		<b>Website:</b><br>
        <br>
      ");
    }
?>

any suggestions would be greatly apprecaited.

thanks

Guy

Drop this

brenda003

she/her

commented 22 March 2006 at 23:27

Drop this perhaps:

    if ($node->type != 'blog') {
      return;
    }

Looks good. Thanks.

Brenda! thanks a million!

Guy Shepperd commented 23 March 2006 at 02:15

that was it. I went in removed that section,

then put dont show on the top level nodes.and vola!

apprecaite the help!

Thanks again!

About Me Block

Comments

Replace

I don't think I want it to

ditto

Aha! Ok, that's not at all

Thanks for your help.

I think I may have put

Wait a minute. The code I

I wasn't clear. When I use

Ok, so I tried cut & pasting

Yeah, geez, I'm sorry for

<?php

Perfect. you're the man.

this is great!!!!

There's a section in the

done!

works great!

check the code

updated and pages showing

What If 'blog' Not in arg(0)?

Have you found an answer?

This is a quick piece and

About me block

I ended up using the patch

Brenda,

Unfortunately only blog node

Geez

Great Snippet

Drop this

Brenda! thanks a million!

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