user home page
Audiowave - May 5, 2009 - 14:41
most social network sites have a user home for each user which is seperate from their profile.
Drupal has a huge amount of networking modules, but most of them are aimed at user profiles.
Alls that I need is a single page automaticaly created for each user, called mysite.com/%/home, myhome/% or myaccount/% etc. that only the user it belongs to can view.
Profile is a core module, So im wondering why isnt this part of drupal.
There used to be the
There used to be the http://drupal.org/project/mysite module for Drupal 5. In its project page the developer gives a link to http://groups.drupal.org/node/8780 for a discussion about whether its is needed any more.
About the question "why not in core", generally core includes basic modules for features which most people need, and it is designed to be extended by modules.
I normally just create a
I normally just create a quick and dirty custom module that takes the uid as a param and checks to see if the currently logged in user (global $user) is the same as uid -> if so .. gather all the information pertaining and display to the user else redirect to access denied.
cheers
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