Create menu link inside a user edit page? ie. user/{curentuser}/edit

By dgeilhufe@yahoo.com on 13 Jan 2006 at 16:58 UTC

I would like to create a menu link that takes the currently logged in user inside their own edit pages.

so the path would look like
user/{currentlyloggedinuser}/edit

What strategy could I use to accomplish this goal of linking a user inside their own edit page?

Comments

Can you expand on what you want?

nevets commented 13 January 2006 at 17:55

I am not clear on what you mean by "inside their own edit pages". If you have the tracker module enabled that places a tab under 'my account' that shows all the articles the person has posted or responded to. Or are you looking for something different?

mmm...

dgeilhufe@yahoo.com commented 13 January 2006 at 18:00

OK, I want to create a menu item.
The menu item has a path.

To go to user 1's edit screen, the path is user/1/edit

But I want the menu to be for the currently logged in user rather than hard-coded to a specific user.
user/{currentuser}/edit
If user 31 is logged in, the menu item would go to user/31/edit, for example.

David Geilhufe
Social Source Foundation
Try CiviCRM http://www.openngo.org/

the 'my account' menu entry almost gets you there

nevets commented 13 January 2006 at 18:05

The 'my account' menu entry takes you to user/{user_id} and the 'edit' tab takes you to user{user_id}/edit. Note that this page is for editing information about the user (not the posts they have made).

how to get $uid into a menu link path?

JohnG-1 commented 8 March 2006 at 13:09

is it possible to use a php $variable such as $uid or $user->uid in the path setting for a menu link from the navigation block?

a simple example would be a 'my posts' link
I have tried the paths:

tracker/$uid
tracker/$user->uid
tracker/{$uid} 
  (gives unicode: ".../tracker/%7B$uid%7D")
tracker/<?php print $uid ?>
  (gives unicode: ".../tracker/%3C?php%20print%20$uid%20?%3E")

and of course none of them link to .../tracker/1.

Does anyone know if it is possible and if so how?

as an alternative..

Dublin Drupaller commented 13 January 2006 at 18:04

Hi Geihufe..

I have done something similar before..not as a menu item, but in the profile pages themselves.

it's extremely useful if you want to point users to the specific profile editing page to change certain details.

For example, consider a user profile like this:

-----------------------------------------

Joe Drupaller (edit)
Drupal Guru

Drupal services inc. (Edit)
10101 Drupal street
Drupalville

Tel. 1010101010 (edit)
fax: 1010101011

My Drupal services:(edit)
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-------------------------------------------

So the edit links, that only appear if it's that user/admin, bring the user directly to the EDITING page they need to.

Is that what you want?

If it is, I recommend you check out the user profile page snippets, in particular the one that adds a "click here to add.." when fields are left empty.

hope that helps

Dub

Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate

php snippets are perfect.

dgeilhufe@yahoo.com commented 13 January 2006 at 19:34

Dublin Drupaller- very useful.

I'm actually doing this with CiviCRM profiles which basically replace the drupal profiles. The urls are formed: user/{userID}/edit/{profilename}

Based on the php snippets, I should be able to contruct a simple page that redirects the user to the edit page I want them to go to.

The strategy would be:
Use a menu entry to send the user to a page node with php that would redirect them to the page I want them to go to.

Menu item becomes: consutantregister
Create a page with a path alias consultantregister

!php noob alert!

PHP on the page:
1. Checks to see if they are logged in.
2. If yes, grab the userID
3. construct a URL in the format user/{userID}/edit/Consultant%Directory
4. redirect the user to that URL

<?php

//check to see if user is logged in
global $user;
if($user->uid)

// Construct the URL
$url= "user/$user/edit/Consultant%20Directory";

//redirect to the constructed URL
header ("Location: $url");

?>

(a) would this code work?
(b) how do you get this code to be evaluated in the header? (I assume this might have something to do with themes. :)

Thoughts welcome

David Geilhufe
Social Source Foundation
Try CiviCRM http://www.openngo.org/

I don't think that will work..

Dublin Drupaller commented 13 January 2006 at 19:46

Hi David,

I'm not sure if that php will work..

Did you have a look at the snippet to Insert user friendly "click here to add your.." links when user profile fields are left blank?

it's a php snippet that could be adapted for a menu block. It also has an added check..i.e.

1. checks to see if the user is online and is the same user
2. checks to see if the user has permission to edit profiles

Dub

Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate

Further research...

dgeilhufe@yahoo.com commented 13 January 2006 at 20:28

Low and behold, drupal provides a function :)

<?php
drupal_goto("user/$user->uid/edit/Consultant%20Directory")
?>

This redirects me quite nicely to
user//edit/Consultant%20Directory

You will notice the double // indicates it will not print the userID.

I'm sure this is painfully obvious, but my php skills are on day 3 or 4 :)

Any thoughts appreciated.

David Geilhufe
Social Source Foundation
Try CiviCRM http://www.openngo.org/

And the answer courtesy of IRC

dgeilhufe@yahoo.com commented 13 January 2006 at 20:51

<?php 
global $user; 
if ($user->uid) 
{ drupal_goto("user/$user->uid/edit/Consultant%20Directory"); }
?>

To register for the consultant directory, you must be logged in.

Apparently, the price of this answer is that I need to talk badly about Morbus.

The guys on #dupal-support on chat.freenode.net are not as scary as you might think.

David Geilhufe
Social Source Foundation
Try CiviCRM http://www.openngo.org/

that's a redirect..not a link

Dublin Drupaller commented 13 January 2006 at 20:57

Hi David,

For other users reading this, what David posted is a redirect not a link.

A menu link will look something like this:

global $user;
if ($user->uid) {
print "<a href=\"user/$user->uid/edit/Consultant%20Directory\">click here</a>";
}

notes: Where "/Consultant%20Directory" is the name of the profile category you want to link the user to....a more advanced set of links is available in the user profile snippets section of the handbook.

the above could be added to a menu, block or php page..

hope that helps..

Dub

Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate

And if you want it work with or without clean urls

nevets commented 13 January 2006 at 23:15

So the code will work with or wiith out clean urls change

print "<a href=\"user/$user->uid/edit/Consultant%20Directory\">click here</a>";

print l('click here', "user/$user->uid/edit/Consultant%20Directory");

thanks

dgeilhufe@yahoo.com commented 9 March 2006 at 19:58

thanks, nevets!

David Geilhufe
Social Source Foundation
Try CiviCRM http://www.civicrm.org/

I tried a similar piece of

Matt B

English

commented 7 September 2008 at 06:49

I tried a similar piece of code to put a 'My nofiications' link to the notficiations tab on the user page. To access this page the path is formed as 'user/{uid}/notify}'. I set the page up with the following code:

global $user;
if ($user->uid)
{ drupal_goto("user/$user->uid/notify"); }

When I navigate to the page, it puts http://www.example.com/user/2/notify (for example) in the location bar, but actually displays the account view page (normally http://www.example.com/user/2). However if I manually type 'http://www.example.com/user/2/notify' into the location bar of the browser, the correct tab is displayed. Can't figure out why this doesn't work!

(drupal 6.4 with the notify module)

Matt

adding a trailing /

Matt B

English

commented 13 September 2008 at 06:34

adding a trailing / works...

<?php
global $user;
if ($user->uid)
{ drupal_goto("user/$user->uid/notify/"); }
?>

Cron Errors

.kuma commented 27 October 2008 at 21:15

Does anyone else notice the cron errors that pop up after using the edit link?

When I run cron, I end up at user id 1's edit profile page (maybe because I'm logged in as user 1, I'm not sure) and get about 40 errors in my log that look like:

LAST
error php	10/27/2008 - 14:09	require_once(./sites/all/modules/cck/theme/theme ...	root	
error	php	10/27/2008 - 14:09	include_once() [<a ...	root	
error	php	10/27/2008 - 14:09	include_once(modules/user/user.admin.inc) [<a ...	root	
error	php	10/27/2008 - 14:09	include_once() [<a ...	root	
error	php	10/27/2008 - 14:09	include_once(modules/user/user.admin.inc) [<a ...	root	
error	php	10/27/2008 - 14:09	include_once() [<a ...	root	
error	php	10/27/2008 - 14:09	include_once(modules/user/user.admin.inc) [<a ...	root	
.
.
.
error	php	10/27/2008 - 14:09	include_once() [<a ...	root	
error	php	10/27/2008 - 14:09	include_once(modules/aggregator/aggregator.pages ...	root	
error	php	10/27/2008 - 14:09	include_once() [<a ...	root	
error	php	10/27/2008 - 14:09	include_once(modules/aggregator/aggregator.pages ...	root	
error	php	10/27/2008 - 14:09	include_once() [<a ...	root	
error	php	10/27/2008 - 14:09	include_once(modules/aggregator/aggregator.pages ...	
FIRST

Thanks!

For this, I installed 'me'

mittalpatel commented 13 February 2009 at 13:14

For this, I installed 'me' aliases module and it worked nicely for me.
I could use user/me/edit for Edit Profile menu.

Though the problem I am facing is that as soon as I enable 'me' aliases module. The Edit profile page doesn't show extra fields I have created using profile module :(. It just shows Account Information. ( I created more profile fields under Personal Information, but it doesn't show up while 'me' is enabled.)

I think 'me' aliases is interfering with it because if I disable it then edit profile will show all the fields.

- Mitsss
http://www.MittalPatel.co.in

- Mittal Patel
http://www.MittalPatel.co.in
http://www.TriCoreITSolutions.com

In case anyone else stumbles

patcon commented 25 February 2009 at 19:07

In case anyone else stumbles upon this with the same problem as the initial poster, try Menu Token (http://drupal.org/project/menu_token)

...which would be awesome if

Barrett commented 27 April 2009 at 18:24

...which would be awesome if only it had a d6 release.

Hi, You can provide a user

artscoop commented 12 May 2010 at 22:54

Hi,

You can provide a user link to your profile edit page easily but you need a module to do so.
You have to register a menu item for the path 'user/edit' (this is a path one would expect, in the way of /user)
The callback function would then redirect to user/$user->uid/edit.

/**================================
Add a path for the user edit form
- the path is user/edit
=================================*/
function mymod_menu () {
  $items ['user/edit'] = array (
    'title' => 'Edit profile',
    'page callback' => 'mymod_redirect_user_edit',
    'access arguments' => array('access content'),
    'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
  );
  return $items;
}

function mymod_redirect_user_edit () {
  global $user;
  drupal_goto ('user/'.$user->uid.'/edit');
}