How to add the ability for a user to save a post to their profile for later viewing (kind of like a bookmark)?

chaoscube - July 8, 2009 - 15:27

I've got kind of an interesting problem, and I haven't been able to find the solution yet. I searched through the modules and forum, but maybe I wasn't looking for the right thing.

Anyway, here's my problem. I need to create the ability for a user to save a post to their profile or something. For example, say a user goes to the site and logs in, and sees a post that looks interesting. But then something comes up and they can't read it right then. So the user clicks an icon next to the post (or a + sign or something), and the post is saved to their profile kind of like a bookmark. Later on, the user can look at their profile page, or some kind of "my bookmarks" page.

I did find some projects that seem to provide a similar function, but I'm not sure if they are what I'm looking for.

- http://drupal.org/project/flag
- http://drupal.org/project/bookmarks

Does anyone have any input/ideas/experience with this type of functionality? I've never done anything like this before on a Drupal site, so I'm pretty much in the dark.

Thanks,

Caleb

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Why not just try the

nevets - July 8, 2009 - 15:33

Why not just try the bookmarks module?

After reading the description

chaoscube - July 8, 2009 - 16:19

After reading the description of the module, I'm not even sure what it does, exactly. For example:

"Bookmarks provides a unique (non-shared) menu to each user. The menu can be modified / updated by the individual users and by the site admin (or anyone who has those permissions). Bookmarks can also be made public and they will appear on the user profile page. For example, user 1 would have public bookmarks at bookmarks/public/1."

That really doesn't tell me much. Does this module do something like what I described I needed?

Thanks,

Caleb

Thanks,
Caleb
http://www.calebrogers.com