User Reference

Have you considered to use the Content Profile Module to create user-profiles and set the node-reference to the users content-profile-node instead to the user himself?

It would be nice to have a real user reference, because the content-profile-approach only works in cases where you can be sure that the content-profile already exists.

This won't be happening in this module (it's called "Node Reference URL Widget" for a reason).

Solution:

Place this code as the default for your user reference field then pass the uid as an argument in the url.

node/add/content-type/uid

Default value
PHP code

<?php


if (is_numeric(arg(3))==TRUE) {
return array(
  0 => array('uid' => arg(3)),
);
} else {
return array();
}


?>

where do I put this code?

On the "default value" field in the field settings page

Try using http://drupal.org/project/prepopulate to pre-populate the user reference field.

Install the References and Prepopulate module.

Note: Make sure to use a text field for the user reference field instead of a dropdown.

Let's use the example of associating musicians (users) with their songs (new content-type named "songs"). Pretend each musician has a user profile/is a user. On each musician's profile, let's add a link that lets us create a new song node. It will look something like...

http://yoursite.com/node/add/song?edit[field_user_reference][und][0][uid...

Now, if you follow that link, on the song creation page, the user reference field will be pre-populated with the user name "Buddy Holly". If you hide the user reference field with CSS (bad practice, I know), you'll be in business.

Note: this assumes you named your user reference field "user reference". If not, make sure the appropriate system name of the user reference field you created on the song content-type is reflected in the url example provided above.

As for making the last bit (the username / Buddy%20Holly) dynamic, I'm not sure. There's gotta be a way.

Works for D7. Not sure about D6.

I have the same problem of trying to link to a USER rather than a NODE.

Currently, I am using the CONTENT_PROFILE module which I can use with NODEREFERENCE_URL. But then I will have orphan content profiles because they will not actually be related to a user.

Is there a way to get a USER to be created along with a content profile using nodereference_url ??

Since in D7 user's have content fields just like nodes do...it does seem like it makes sense as a feature. I'd be willing to help put it together for D7 if you're interested.