Individual User activities block

We don't currently have a block for this, but there is a way you can do this easily if you look at the code implemented within hook_user()

...
    // View activity on user profile page.
    case 'view':
      if (user_access('view public activity') && variable_get('activity_user_profile_records', 5) != 0) {
        drupal_add_css(drupal_get_path('module', 'activity') .'/activity.css');
        $activities = activity_get_activity($account->uid, NULL, variable_get('activity_user_profile_records', 5));
        
        $account->content['activity'] = array(
          '#type' => 'user_profile_category',
          '#title' => t('Activity'),
          '#weight' => 6,
        );
        $account->content['activity'][] = array(
          '#type' => 'user_profile_item',
          '#value' => theme('activity_user_profile_activity', $activities),
        );
      }
      break;
...

This basically retrieve's all activity for the current user whose profile you are viewing and shows it. You could just as easily put this in a hook_block() and in the line $activities = activity_get_activity($account->uid, NULL, variable_get('activity_user_profile_records', 5)); you would use $user->uid instead of $account->uid after declaring global $user

So in short you can paste something like this into your site's custom module: (not tested)

function MYMODULE_block($op = 'list', $delta = 0, $edit = array()) {
  global $user;
  switch ($op) {
    case 'list':
      $blocks[] = array('info' => t("Activity - Current User Activity"));
      return $blocks;
      break;
    case 'view':
        drupal_add_css(drupal_get_path('module', 'activity') .'/activity.css');
        $activities = activity_get_activity($user->uid, NULL, variable_get('activity_user_profile_records', 5));
        
     if (count($activity)) {
        return array(
          'subject' => t('My !name\' activity', array('!name' => $type->plural_name)),
          'content' => theme('activity_block', $activities, $more_link)
        );
      }
   break;
}

How can I do this by just adding some code to my profile page template? I don't want to create another module or mess around with drupal hooks.

I'm currently trying to use this code:

$activities = activity_get_activity(arg(1), NULL, variable_get('activity_user_profile_records', 5));
  print_r(theme('activity_user_profile_activity', $activities));

Where arg(1) is the current profile page's UID.

But this isn't working. What am I doing wrong? All it shows me is "Array" instead of the activity feed. Thanks.

In a core profile system (no mods to the profile) it should already show up. that is what hook_user(), case view does.

Have you modified your user profiles with another module?

As for your code above, if you print_r($activities), that should work. But you don't want to print_r the theme function that you're passing $activities into as the theme function does not return an array.

could this be an option as part of the Activity module?

Facebook status gives you a similar capability to see the status of the person you are viewing. That makes a lot of sense.

I've got a production site with 1000 registered users. The user profiles were written by hand to make sure they do what they need to do.

So I need to find a way to get the activity for a profile to appear on them using custom code.

Good point about the print_r. I only had that in there to see if I could see what was wrong.

The problem with that code I posted above is that all it returns is "array()"

How do I get it ot return the actual activity?

Is there different code I should use?

related issue: #373480: My activity block: Can it also display activity of person whose profile i am viewing

Ok how about someone try this patch which adds a new block for viewing activity for the user you are currently viewing.

this is for the 6.1 branch against the latest -dev snapshot.

#1 - don't see this behaviour. Can you detail exactly what steps you took to get this result?

#2 - fbstatus module is maintained outside of Activity and likely needs to have its support
for Activity updated as there have been a lot of changes on our end.

The patch from #7 was committed to CVS. Please try a -dev release to try out this block.

Any update for the 5.4 implementation of this? Thanks so much.

Right now the 6.x branch has a lot more users than 5.x so we're looking to make sure that features are working in the 6.x branch before considering porting to 5.4. I highly encourage you to play with a 6.1-dev snapshot as 6.1.x and on into the future 6.2.x will be the primary focus of development.

Thanks jaydub. Unfortunately, the site I'm working that heavily uses activity will be in five for awhile until various other modules (panels and APK in particular) become stable for 6.

OK, so I went ahead and just inserted the following

$block['user']['info'] = t("Activity (User): show activity of the user being viewed");

and

case 'user':
            if (user_access('view public activity') && arg(0) == "user" && is_numeric(arg(1))) {
              $uid = arg(1);
              $author = activity_user_load($uid);
              $activity =  activity_get_activity($uid, NULL, variable_get('activity_block_'. $delta, 5) + 1);
              if ($count = count($activity)) {
                drupal_add_css(drupal_get_path('module', 'activity') .'/activity.css');
                if ($count > variable_get('activity_block_'. $delta, 5)) {
                  $more_link = theme('activity_more_link', 'activity');
                  array_pop($activity);
                }
                $activities = array();
                foreach ($activity as $item) {
                  $item['delete-link'] = activity_delete_link($item);
                  $activities[] = theme('activity', activity_token_replace($item), $item);
                }
                return array(
                  'subject' => t("@username's activity", array('@username' => $author->name)),
                  'content' => theme('activity_block', $activities)
                );
              }
            }
            break;

in 5.x-4.x under hook_block() the same way it appears in the 6 dev version.

Everything works pretty much. The only issue I have, which is a half blessing, is that, having put this block in my APK (user) panel (with bio), it shows comments made on the profile [edit: or any node made by displayed user] by other users as well as every activity made by the user - and nothing else. Since I'm not using core do comments made by other users on nodes by the user (who's profile is being viewed) get shown? I like it even if it's not supposed to happen. The only thing is that simply displays "user commented on user" without the other tokens I've setup for comments like "saying [comment...". All other comments display properly except the one shown in this block made on the node profile by other users.

Another bug I have is that when using block refresh (http://drupal.org/project/block_refresh) the block refreshes a blank slate unlike the rest of the activity blocks which seem to pull in fresh data fine.

That module doesn't exist for Drupal 6 so I'm afraid I can't really assess why the feature in this issue doesn't work for you. I encourage you to delve into block_refresh and see how it works and post your results here.

Yup will do.

The original issue request is in CVS now. For the poster in #15 you can open a new issue although keep in mind that there is no d5 implementation of this yet and since your problem with block_refresh is on a d5 module it might not get addressed.

I saw that activity module now has views integration, so is there a way that I can actually reproduce this kind of functionnality using the views integration??

Not sure this is possible tho...
Patchak

It should be possible now, yes. The basic idea would be to give your Activity view a uid argument, or filter.

If anyone tries this out please report back and give us a recipe - I'd like to start a handbook page of different Views that people can plug into their sites. Thanks!

here is the view I have created (6.x-2.x-dev on drupal 6.14 with latest dev of views). It does the job and can be included e.g. in panels on user profiles

$view = new view;
$view->name = 'user_activity';
$view->description = 'All activity of a user';
$view->tag = 'activity';
$view->view_php = '';
$view->base_table = 'activity';
$view->is_cacheable = FALSE;
$view->api_version = 2;
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */
$handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Defaults', 'default');
$handler->override_option('relationships', array(
  'uid' => array(
    'label' => 'User',
    'required' => 1,
    'id' => 'uid',
    'table' => 'activity',
    'field' => 'uid',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('fields', array(
  'created' => array(
    'label' => '',
    'alter' => array(
      'alter_text' => 0,
      'text' => '',
      'make_link' => 0,
      'path' => '',
      'link_class' => '',
      'alt' => '',
      'prefix' => '',
      'suffix' => '',
      'target' => '',
      'help' => '',
      'trim' => 0,
      'max_length' => '',
      'word_boundary' => 1,
      'ellipsis' => 1,
      'strip_tags' => 0,
      'html' => 0,
    ),
    'empty' => '',
    'hide_empty' => 0,
    'empty_zero' => 0,
    'date_format' => 'raw time ago',
    'custom_date_format' => '',
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'created',
    'table' => 'activity',
    'field' => 'created',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
  'message' => array(
    'label' => '',
    'alter' => array(
      'alter_text' => 0,
      'text' => '',
      'make_link' => 0,
      'path' => '',
      'alt' => '',
      'prefix' => '',
      'suffix' => '',
      'help' => '',
      'trim' => 0,
      'max_length' => '',
      'word_boundary' => 1,
      'ellipsis' => 1,
      'html' => 0,
    ),
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'message',
    'table' => 'activity_messages',
    'field' => 'message',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
  'delete_activity' => array(
    'label' => '',
    'alter' => array(
      'alter_text' => 0,
      'text' => '',
      'make_link' => 0,
      'path' => '',
      'link_class' => '',
      'alt' => '',
      'prefix' => '',
      'suffix' => '',
      'target' => '',
      'help' => '',
      'trim' => 0,
      'max_length' => '',
      'word_boundary' => 1,
      'ellipsis' => 1,
      'strip_tags' => 0,
      'html' => 0,
    ),
    'empty' => '',
    'hide_empty' => 0,
    'empty_zero' => 0,
    'text' => '',
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'delete_activity',
    'table' => 'activity',
    'field' => 'delete_activity',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('sorts', array(
  'aid' => array(
    'order' => 'DESC',
    'id' => 'aid',
    'table' => 'activity',
    'field' => 'aid',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('arguments', array(
  'uid' => array(
    'default_action' => 'default',
    'style_plugin' => 'default_summary',
    'style_options' => array(),
    'wildcard' => 'all',
    'wildcard_substitution' => 'All',
    'title' => '',
    'breadcrumb' => '',
    'default_argument_type' => 'user',
    'default_argument' => '',
    'validate_type' => 'none',
    'validate_fail' => 'not found',
    'break_phrase' => 0,
    'not' => 0,
    'id' => 'uid',
    'table' => 'users',
    'field' => 'uid',
    'relationship' => 'uid',
    'validate_user_argument_type' => 'uid',
    'validate_user_roles' => array(
      '2' => 0,
    ),
    'override' => array(
      'button' => 'Override',
    ),
    'default_options_div_prefix' => '',
    'default_argument_user' => 0,
    'default_argument_fixed' => '',
    'default_argument_php' => '',
    'validate_argument_node_type' => array(
      'panel' => 0,
      'profile' => 0,
      'story' => 0,
      'uprofile' => 0,
      'video' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_node_access' => 0,
    'validate_argument_nid_type' => 'nid',
    'validate_argument_vocabulary' => array(
      '1' => 0,
      '6' => 0,
      '2' => 0,
      '3' => 0,
      '4' => 0,
      '5' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_type' => 'tid',
    'validate_argument_transform' => 0,
    'validate_user_restrict_roles' => 0,
    'validate_argument_node_flag_name' => '*relationship*',
    'validate_argument_node_flag_test' => 'flaggable',
    'validate_argument_node_flag_id_type' => 'id',
    'validate_argument_user_flag_name' => '*relationship*',
    'validate_argument_user_flag_test' => 'flaggable',
    'validate_argument_user_flag_id_type' => 'id',
    'validate_argument_php' => '',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('access', array(
  'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('cache', array(
  'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('title', 'user activity');
$handler->override_option('use_ajax', TRUE);
$handler->override_option('items_per_page', 25);
$handler->override_option('use_pager', '1');
$handler->override_option('row_options', array(
  'inline' => array(
    'created' => 'created',
    'message' => 'message',
    'delete_activity' => 'delete_activity',
  ),
  'separator' => '-',
  'hide_empty' => 0,
));
$handler = $view->new_display('page', 'Page', 'page_1');
$handler->override_option('path', 'user/%/activity');
$handler->override_option('menu', array(
  'type' => 'none',
  'title' => '',
  'description' => '',
  'weight' => 0,
  'name' => 'navigation',
));
$handler->override_option('tab_options', array(
  'type' => 'none',
  'title' => '',
  'description' => '',
  'weight' => 0,
));
$handler = $view->new_display('panel_pane', 'Content pane', 'panel_pane_1');
$handler->override_option('arguments', array(
  'uid' => array(
    'default_action' => 'ignore',
    'style_plugin' => 'default_summary',
    'style_options' => array(),
    'wildcard' => 'all',
    'wildcard_substitution' => 'All',
    'title' => '',
    'breadcrumb' => '',
    'default_argument_type' => 'fixed',
    'default_argument' => '',
    'validate_type' => 'none',
    'validate_fail' => 'not found',
    'break_phrase' => 0,
    'not' => 0,
    'id' => 'uid',
    'table' => 'users',
    'field' => 'uid',
    'relationship' => 'uid',
    'validate_user_argument_type' => 'uid',
    'validate_user_roles' => array(
      '2' => 0,
    ),
    'override' => array(
      'button' => 'Override',
    ),
    'default_options_div_prefix' => '',
    'default_argument_user' => 0,
    'default_argument_fixed' => '',
    'default_argument_php' => '',
    'validate_argument_node_type' => array(
      'panel' => 0,
      'profile' => 0,
      'story' => 0,
      'uprofile' => 0,
      'video' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_node_access' => 0,
    'validate_argument_nid_type' => 'nid',
    'validate_argument_vocabulary' => array(
      '1' => 0,
      '6' => 0,
      '2' => 0,
      '3' => 0,
      '4' => 0,
      '5' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_type' => 'tid',
    'validate_argument_transform' => 0,
    'validate_user_restrict_roles' => 0,
    'validate_argument_node_flag_name' => '*relationship*',
    'validate_argument_node_flag_test' => 'flaggable',
    'validate_argument_node_flag_id_type' => 'id',
    'validate_argument_user_flag_name' => '*relationship*',
    'validate_argument_user_flag_test' => 'flaggable',
    'validate_argument_user_flag_id_type' => 'id',
    'validate_argument_php' => '',
  ),
  'uid_1' => array(
    'default_action' => 'ignore',
    'style_plugin' => 'default_summary',
    'style_options' => array(),
    'wildcard' => 'all',
    'wildcard_substitution' => 'All',
    'title' => '',
    'breadcrumb' => '',
    'default_argument_type' => 'fixed',
    'default_argument' => '',
    'validate_type' => 'none',
    'validate_fail' => 'not found',
    'break_phrase' => 0,
    'not' => 0,
    'id' => 'uid_1',
    'table' => 'activity',
    'field' => 'uid',
    'validate_user_argument_type' => 'uid',
    'validate_user_roles' => array(
      '2' => 0,
    ),
    'override' => array(
      'button' => 'Use default',
    ),
    'relationship' => 'none',
    'default_options_div_prefix' => '',
    'default_argument_user' => 0,
    'default_argument_fixed' => '',
    'default_argument_php' => '',
    'validate_argument_node_type' => array(
      'panel' => 0,
      'profile' => 0,
      'story' => 0,
      'uprofile' => 0,
      'video' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_node_access' => 0,
    'validate_argument_nid_type' => 'nid',
    'validate_argument_vocabulary' => array(
      '1' => 0,
      '6' => 0,
      '2' => 0,
      '3' => 0,
      '4' => 0,
      '5' => 0,
    ),
    'validate_argument_type' => 'tid',
    'validate_argument_transform' => 0,
    'validate_user_restrict_roles' => 0,
    'validate_argument_node_flag_name' => '*relationship*',
    'validate_argument_node_flag_test' => 'flaggable',
    'validate_argument_node_flag_id_type' => 'id',
    'validate_argument_user_flag_name' => '*relationship*',
    'validate_argument_user_flag_test' => 'flaggable',
    'validate_argument_user_flag_id_type' => 'id',
    'validate_argument_php' => '',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('pane_title', '');
$handler->override_option('pane_description', '');
$handler->override_option('pane_category', array(
  'name' => 'View panes',
  'weight' => 0,
));
$handler->override_option('allow', array(
  'use_pager' => 0,
  'items_per_page' => 0,
  'offset' => 0,
  'link_to_view' => 'link_to_view',
  'more_link' => 0,
  'path_override' => 0,
  'title_override' => 'title_override',
  'exposed_form' => FALSE,
));
$handler->override_option('argument_input', array(
  'uid' => array(
    'type' => 'context',
    'context' => 'node.uid',
    'context_optional' => 0,
    'panel' => '0',
    'fixed' => '',
    'label' => 'User: Uid',
  ),
  'uid_1' => array(
    'type' => 'user',
    'context' => 'node.uid',
    'context_optional' => 0,
    'panel' => '0',
    'fixed' => '',
    'label' => 'User: Uid',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('link_to_view', 0);
$handler->override_option('inherit_panels_path', 0);
$handler = $view->new_display('block', 'Block', 'block_1');
$handler->override_option('block_description', '');
$handler->override_option('block_caching', -1);

Change to 2.x as per #21.

The views #21 includes info from the panel_pane plugin, which it shouldn't. I created a similar views, too, but there is also activity_comment. I don't know how to export a minimal view, neither.

The patch in this issue seems to be in #7, and a follow up note in #10 states that it was committed. It seems that the main issue here was addressed, and at 14 months out from the last update I'm rolling the status to fixed.

Hum, it is fixed in 1.x. Is it fixed in 2.x? Currently in 2.x we need a default view, which is not available yet.

D6 reached its EOL back in February 2016, and there is no active release for D6 for this module anymore.
Development or support is not planned for D6. All D6-related issues are marked as outdated in a bunch.

If the issue remains relevant for D10+ versions, merge requests with proposed solutions for a new module version (D10+) are welcome in a new follow-up issue.

Thanks!