By jamesialford on

Good day all, Let me start off by thanking you in advance.

Here is what I want to do. I wand to allow my regerstered user to have a Facebook, My Space, Utube, and other sites like to in their profile. I would also like to have a link on every post that they all to have a link to the FB,MS,UT,twitter user page.

If you know of a module, please let me know.

James

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john54 commented

Depending on exactly what you want it can get a bit confusing getting a seemingly simple thing setup.

Look into the following: Setup will be simplified a great deal if you pay extremely close attention to the many dependencies between the below modules.

Service Links (http://drupal.org/project/service_links) and Share (http://drupal.org/project/share) sort of act as hosts or servers for the all the different sharing possibilities (Twitter, Facebook, Digg, LinkedIN, MySpace, Facebook, and bunches more).

You then need a widget (sort of like a box or container) that the links allowed by Service Links and Share actually live in.

Share has a simple widget associated with it and you may want to look at another more complex widget called ShareThis (http://drupal.org/project/sharethis).

You then will need to sort out exactly what pages the links will be on and where they will be located. They can below below the content or can be over in the links typically on the right hand side. Can be in teasers, only on full pages, or both. Also you will need to decide if you want to specifically choose the ones that are there in a simple row (Share Widget) or whether you want a box (ShareThis) to pop up and let the user choose from many possibilities.

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jamesialford commented

Thanks for the quick reply.

I do not think I am looking for a module that will share a post. I just want to create a link to the users social networking page.

James

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tdimg commented

afaik, there's no such module and you'd have to do some customisation of your theme. Use the core profile module to create user fields that ask your users to provide that information and then use the user templates to properly output the links to their social networking profiles. Template files you might need:

http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules--user--user-profile.tpl.php/6
http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules--user--user-profile-category.tp...
http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules--user--user-profile-item.tpl.php/6

for the other one, use devel to identify what to customise.

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aopgroup commented

this action need high level tech!

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sagar ramgade commented

Yes there is a module for what you are looking for.
http:www.drupal.org/project/follow

Hope this helps.

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Trobaz commented

This works for me Sagar. But if i simply wanted to place the Facebook icon on my Drupal site and link it to my Facebook page? I know this is simple and i have no problem doing this on an html page, but i've just started exploring Drupal and finding my way around. Thanks.

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tdimg commented

create a custom block and put the html in there, finished.

if you've just started with Drupal, I suggest you buy a decent book. Learning it just as you go along, i.e. without a book, can take a lot more time.

sagar ramgade’s picture

sagar ramgade commented

Hi,

Yes you can do by adding a block, placing the code in the block body and select input format as full html.

Regards
Sagar

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vm commented