By ludo1960 on

Hi guys and gals,

Just wondering, when you go to "my account" the path is mysite.com/user/somenumber, a very boring page indeed!

If I was to make a view and give it an arguement "uid" and give it the path /user would I get in trouble with the Drupal police?

Moving on from that, assuming the police are ok with it, could I then add attachments to that view, say user/pictures etc

I want to use just core and views without mucking about with other contributed modules.

Any thoughts?

Cheers.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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vm’s picture

vm commented

investigate the way that advanced profiles module handles the profile pages. I don't know that you can do what you want with "only" views and core, unless you are handcoding tpl.php files.

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ludo1960 commented

.. ever sleep? Maybe handcoding the tpl's is the way to go, just asking first.

vm’s picture

vm commented

rarely ;)

Plenty of time to sleep when I'm dead, until then I'll live a little sleepy.

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ludo1960 commented

...lets see what others think!

Question is still open, good monday question I thought!

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sepeck commented

Check out this
http://drupal.org/project/advanced_profile

Haven't used it but not boring.

-Steven Peck
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ludo1960 commented

..report my findings:

So, had a look at advanced_profile, way too much overheads. Created a view using user_id as arguement and edited the user-profile.tpl.php and added this:

$view = views_get_view('viewname');   {replaced viewname with the name of my view}
print $view->execute_display('default', $args);

Works a treat!

At the risk of being a help vampire, I tried exposing the view as a block, sure enough it appears in the admin/block page. It doesn't have an id yet (not designated a region for it yet) so any ideas how to print out that block ?

$block = module_invoke('block', 'block', 'view', "25(number of block)"); 
print $block ['content'] ;

Any ideas?

Hey, you never know this might help other folk out too!

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ludo1960 commented

..many ways to skin a cat in Drupal!

1 Create the view (don't expose it to a block)
2 Create a block only visible to the user/* pages
3 Call the view into the block using the above $views code
4 Put the skin back on the cat!

No need to play with the tpl files! Just Core and Views!

Oh man, just gotta love Drupal!

Cheers folks!