Creating User Profiles
MBM - July 2, 2009 - 22:18
Hello,
I am looking to create user profiles on my website, similar to youtube user profiles.
I just need one section for info(name, avatar, last login, join date), possibly a friends list if its easy to implement, a section for recent posts by that user and another section for recent comments.
Can someone please tell me how i would go about doing this?
Thanks
first thing is that you have
first thing is that you have to understand , that drupal is not software that contains modules that will give you strait out of the box "amazing" profiles.
The modules that will help you and provide you best solutions are :
CCK
Views
Panels 3
and their related modules , such as filefield and image for cck, and example views rotator, or views group by.
all other small modules that will help you enhance the profile are :
author pane
advanced profile
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views + panels allow you to override the user view page, so you can make profile field like " About me " , and than use Views to render only that field in defined area with panels, ( as you install the panels and read documentation you will understand )
I see that you're new to drupal, and if you find hard drupal for you, you shouldn't give up, cause this cms is amazing and easy to use when you master few mentioned modules.
I suggest you getting few books about drupal, there's pretty much information there how to build robust sites.
This is list of pretty good books for drupal.
Drupal 6 Ultimate Community Site Guide
Drupal 6 Social_Networking
Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery
Drupal Theme Development
Drupal Multimedia
Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition
Hope you find this post helpful.
APK needs some work
The advanced Profile Kit really needs some work to be production ready. I doubt that it is wise to start working with it at the moment especially for a beginner. Michelle, the maintainer of APK, is currently doing heavy work on other fronts but plans to get back to APK soon. Check the project page for infos.
agree, I used APK before on
agree, I used APK before on one site.. so Im not updated with information about that module tbh.
Hey thank you for your
Hey thank you for your replies, i already have views and panels installed, I've used views for a few things successfully but I'm not really that familiar with panels and how i would use it with views.
Also i was wondering if i would be able to do all this in drupal without knowing any php?
Thanks for the book recommendations, going to buy the ultimate community site guide it seems to have what im looking for.