By poisonpill on

Instead of having a page of blogs from every user with recent ones being on top, how can I link to a page of links to every users blogs?
Sort of like this:

main page - click on - Blogs ---> list of users' main blog page ----> then links to their corresponding blogs

Thanks!

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LateNightDesigner’s picture

LateNightDesigner commented

I was looking for a way also and I am just going to try using Taxonomy
Browser. Hope my little idea helps you also.

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poisonpill commented

do you have an example of what you got? Thanks.

LateNightDesigner’s picture

LateNightDesigner commented

Yeah, Taxonomy Browser didnt work. I guess you could just write a little code snippet...

Something like this I found in a search:

<?php
$result = db_query("SELECT u.uid, u.name, COUNT(0) AS num FROM {node} n LEFT JOIN {users} u ON u.uid = n.uid WHERE n.type = 'blog' GROUP BY u.uid, u.name ORDER BY u.name ASC");
while ($blog = db_fetch_object($result)) {
     $output .= '<li />'.l($blog->name. ' ('.$blog->num.')', 'blog/'.$blog->uid);
}
return '<ul>'.$output.'</ul>';
?>

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poisonpill’s picture

poisonpill commented

I put that in a block and it shows up exactly what I'd want. However how would I make a link on top to link to a page with that content?

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sepeck commented

Create a page with php type content.
paste in code.
Add a link to your menu to that page node.

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poisonpill commented

hmmm, I tried that and the link becomes myhost.com/node/13. However other authenticated users get an "Access denied". (I have only authenticated users can view content tho)

Also the page doesn't look like a static page ought to, I would like to hide the "by user at Mar 9 2006 etc" info at the bottom.

Thanks.

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

http://beta.blkmtn.org/index.php?q=node/25
check your access control.

Choose a node type you arn't using, (story?) and turn off 'Display post information (?q=admin/themes/settings) for that content type

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poisonpill commented

thanks!

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celticess commented

or maybe it was menu on the fly. You have to make categories. Then set where they sit in the nav. It's been awhile since I had to fiddle with that so unfortunately I can't tell you off hand. The index page module also might work.

LateNightDesigner’s picture

LateNightDesigner commented

Blog's don't count in the standard taxonomy though. Menu on the fly might work... I liked the use of the custom code though.

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poisonpill commented

Is there a way to show this userlist of blogs and have the words "NEW" display next to it if the blog is newly posted?

Or any method to quickly show someone where the new content is?

LateNightDesigner’s picture

LateNightDesigner commented

If you enable blogs for your users you can use the Recent Blogs block included with the blog module.

Find it in admin/block scroll down and locate the "Recent blog posts" block. You can also use the code for this:
http://drupal.org/node/35736

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