Allow users to make whole profile public/private

Great idea, I see a lot of value in this. I'd be surprised if it can't be done by an existing module, some research should be done to see if any other contrib module allows per-user whole profile privacy.

@TfR75 if you have the time it would be useful to spec out this feature more, perhaps provide some use cases and thoughts on the interface. Thanks.

Also, if I start a patch it's going to be for the 6.x branch of profile privacy.

This would be great. Any progress? I'd be happy to be involved in testing. Version 6 for me too please.

I am interested in this feature also.

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here is my HowTo http://insready.com/node/54

Great job skyredwang; I had been working with Panels and was thinking along the same lines. You just saved me a few precious hours! Here are a few additional suggestions, which I am going to try out as well:

1. Instead of a check-box, add several options that would allow the user to show the profile only to authenticated users, only to friends (e.g. user relationships), etc.
2. Add another visibility condition in the panel so that an "account administrator" (or users with other specified roles or permissions) can see the profile

The Panels/Views approach to the user profile is a great approach which makes a lot of things possible without any real programming. You just have to work with Panels for a while if you're not used to it. I was considering theming the User Profile manually, but I don't think I'll need to do much theming, if any.

Hi skyredwang;

I finally got around to looking at this and I am running up against an issue. In order to show the public profile variant I have to enable anonymous users to access user profiles. However, the selection logic does not seem to be running at all. Rather, the entire redirect is not working at all for the user page if the logged in user is anonymous, and the user can now access all user profiles regardless of whether the "Make profile public" setting is selected for that user.

Any thoughts on what would make Panels fail to display for anonymous users?

I am using D6+Panels-3.2,

Yes, you have to adjust permission so that Drupal doesn't deal with access (in other words, the anonymous users can access user pages).

I don't know why your configurations are not working.

For my site, you can see two examples here:

http://greatbrewers.com/users/admin

http://greatbrewers.com/users/skyred

I am skyred on IRC, if you'd like to debug your site with me.

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Thanks for the writeup. Great job.

I'm using content profile (instead of the profile module) so I added the checkbox via CCK. I'm having trouble finding the FID for my checkbox in the DB. Does anyone know which table to look in to find it?

I figured it out. If anyone else is using content profile, you'll need to get the UID from the users table. Here's my code:

if ( arg(0) == 'user') {
$privacy = db_result(db_query("
SELECT node.nid AS nid
 FROM mmhnode node 
 LEFT JOIN mmhcontent_type_profile node_data_field_public_private ON node.vid = node_data_field_public_private.vid
 INNER JOIN mmhusers users ON node.uid = users.uid
 WHERE ((node_data_field_public_private.field_public_private_value) = ('public')) AND (users.uid = %d)", arg(1)));
return !$privacy;
};

Moving this to consideration for the 6.x-2.x branch.

doing this in Panels is a cool idea; although a module would be better.. surprised there hasn't been one done yet.. i'll take a look at module approach for D7.

difference between module (real access control) approach and panels:

- panel has a locked out msg (which might be nice); but user links will still be clickable
- real access control will change links to just username and the page will be access denied

merits for both approaches

of course module approach is also much simpler as no set up is required.

The link in #7 does not appear valid any longer. You may try this instead:

http://insready.com/en/blog/3-lines-code-panels3-and-profile-modules-cre...

In Drupal 7, here's the PHP Code to add as a Panels selection rule to test if a profile checkbox is set. When used along with this tutorial (http://insready.com/en/blog/3-lines-code-panels3-and-profile-modules-cre...), can be used to allow users to publish their profiles publicly (attached is a screenshot in case it helps others with the setup).

$public = field_get_items('user', user_load(arg(1)), 'field_public_profile');
return $public[0]['value'] == '1';

Note that:

1. This expects that the arg(1) is the user being viewed.
2. This expects that your user has a profile field named 'field_public_profile'. This is a checkbox the user sets to publish their profile.

Adjust as necessary.