code for tabbed browsing...

Hi!
That's currently only possible if you divide your profile into multiple nodes and use a pageroute for the user input process.

Then you get multiple nodes, and so multiple pages. So you can easily make links to all nodes and theme it as tabs.

Does this satisfy your needs?

This question relates to my question in the node family issues page (http://drupal.org/node/97354). I understand how to use pageroute to produce a logical order of editing the different nodes, but how do you pull up all related profile nodes unless you are at the top level node? I don't understand how you get the parent nodes of a child node.

Ok, fago just answered my above question on the node family issues board. I will post my code for doing profile tabs as soon as I get it working fully.

You need to link to the various nodes that make up your profile. If you have the following as your node family relationships:

usernode->content_type_a
usernode->conetnt_type_b

then you would want to link to both of those nodes (a and b) on your tabs.

I am working on doing this right now--I still have a few more bugs to work out, but it's almost working like I want. I'll post a howto of some form when I get them working--hopefully by the end of the weekend.

If you can't wait until I post a detailed howto, making the tabs themselves is easy--it's figuring out what tabs you need that's more difficult. Just do something like:

<div class="tabs">
<ul class="tabs secondary">
<li> Tab 1</li>
<li> Tab 2</li>
</ul>
</div>

Of course, you'll probably want the tab to link to the content type as well, so throw in a link in each li.

I'll post a follow up here when I put up a howto.

AC

fago

Where should I put documentation for using tabs with node profiles? It seems to me that it would be a good idea for you to start a page in the documentation project and I could add a child under that. But if you would rather me do something else, let me know.

AC

no, that's sound great. Just start a page for the nodeprofile modules in the handbook.
Don't hesitate to document as much as you like. Any contributions are welcome! :)

I looked at the handbook and I didn't see a page for node profile. I don't have the knowledge or time to maintain the entire documentation entries for node profile, and since the handbook says that only the creator can edit a page (unless you have site administration privs), I was thinking that it would be best if you created a handbook page for node profile, and then I can add a child page detailing how to do the tabbed nodes. Is that possible?

AC

Ok.....this isn't totally polished, but will hopefully be at least somewhat useful. If anyone has suggestions on how to make it better or anything feel free to contribute.

I put the following code at the top of each template file for any nodeprofiles or usernode. So, in my case, that is node-usernode.tpl.php, node-content_user_profile.tpl.php, etc.)

Also, I haven't installed the most recent version of nodefamily yet (I'm still using the version that I created the patch for minimum status, from about a week ago). Therefore, this might not quite work or may return a slightly different result.

I haven't cleaned up the code, so there are still commented out debugging statements, etc.

<?php
<?php
  // status of node must be >= this value to be returned by the below calls.
  //  Use 0 to return all nodes or 1 to return only published nodes
 	$min_status = 1;
 	
  $parents = nodefamily_relation_load_parents($nid, $min_status);
//	msg_r("parents");
//	msg_r($parents);

  $children = nodefamily_relation_load($nid, $min_status);
//	msg_r("children");
//	msg_r($children);

 $siblings = nodefamily_relation_load_siblings($nid, $min_status);
//  msg_r("siblings");
//	msg_r($siblings);

?>
<?php // get all the content types so that the tabs can have the
			// readable name in the tab instead of the content_type
			// or automatically created node title   
   		$types  = node_get_types();
   		//$readable_type = $types['your_content_type'];
?> 	
  	<div class="content user_profile_content">
    <?php 
    // msg_r($node);
    
    // begin tab printing code
    // if there are any parent or child nodes for the current node, then make tabs
    // for those nodes and include the current node's tab between the parent
    // and child nodes.  If there are no parent or child nodes for the current
    // node, there is no need to print any tabs
		if (count($parents) + count($children) + count($siblings)) { ?>
			<div class="tabs">
			<ul class="tabs secondary">
			
			<?php
			// set minimum node status to create a tab for the node
			$min_status = 1;		// 1 = published
			
  		// print tabs for parents
   		if (count($parents)) {
        foreach ($parents as $parentnode) {
          if (node_access('view', $parentnode, $user->uid) && ($parentnode->status >= $min_status)) { ?>
   					<li><?php print l($types[$parentnode->type], 'node/'.$parentnode->nid) ?> </li> <?php
  	      }
        }
      }
      
      // print a tab for the current node
      ?>
      <li class="active"><?php print l($types[$node->type], 'node/'.$node->nid )?></li> <?php

  		
  		// print tabs for siblings of the current node
   		if (count($siblings)) {
   		  foreach ($siblings as $parent_of_sibling) {			// siblings of the same parent are returned within an array with index of parent node
          foreach ($parent_of_sibling as $siblingnode) {
            if (node_access('view', $siblingnode, $user->uid) && ($siblingnode->status >= $min_status)) { ?>
  					  <li><?php print l($types[$siblingnode->type], 'node/'.$siblingnode->nid) ?> </li>	<?php
  				  }
  				} 
        }
      } 
      	
  		// print tabs for children
   		if (count($children)) {
   		  foreach ($children as $childnode) {
          if (node_access('view', $childnode, $user->uid) && ($childnode->status >= $min_status)) { ?>
  					<li><?php print l($types[$childnode->type], 'node/'.$childnode->nid) ?> </li>	<?php
  				} 
        }
      } ?>
      </ul>
  		</div>
  		<?php
    }
		// end tab printing code ?>
?>

Let me know if you have any questions.

AC

are you putting the entire block of code in the profile template file for EACH content type? If you are, try uncommenting some of the msg_r() statements to see if the function is finding the children nodes. I'm also not sure how many levels this function will dive down. I have only children of the main usernode, and it works for me, but I haven't tried the code if you have something like usernode->nodea->nodeb->nodec relationships. Though I would think that you should at least get the parent node and any siblings of any given node.

AC

The position of the tabs has to do with the order that the various nodefamily relation functions return the nodes, as well as the order in which the results of those functions are displayed (controlled by the code I gave you earlier that goes in the template files). I haven't looked too heavily into how to best do this, but there isn't an obvious way that I've seen to always keep the same order.

If what I said above isn't answering the right question, maybe you can provide another screenshot before and after you click on the tab to let me know exactly what your question is. I'm not sure I'm understanding your question correctly.

AC

Ok, I can help you out a little with your questions, but not a lot.

1. This is because the code I posted orders tabs such that if the node currently being viewed is node x, the order of tabs will be:
all parents of node x; node x; all siblings of node x; all children of node x

The tab you click on jumps left (or to the middle) because the code is set to put the current tab to the left of sibling/children tabs. I guess you could change the tab code so that you first find the usernode of the user, and then find all children of the usernode, and display the tabs in that order. If you can't figure out how to do this, I might try this later today or tomorrow to see if it works. If you do get this to work how you want, let me know what the new code is. It looks like we're structuring our profiles in a very similar way.

2. I would also like to get rid of the display of the usernode, but I can't figure out a good way to do this. Let me explain. I have an override function in my template.php file that changes the link on any user's name from their user/uid page to node/usernode page. The code I use to do this is:

/**
* Catch the theme_profile_profile function, and redirect through the template api
*/
function phptemplate_user_profile($user, $fields = array()) {
  // Pass to phptemplate, including translating the parameters to an associative array. The element names are the names that the variables
  // will be assigned within your template.
  /* potential need for other code to extract field info */
  
  
  // redirect user to usernode page instead of standard drupal profile page
 	if (user_access('access user profiles')&& module_exist('usernode')) {
    $nid = usernode_get_node_id($user);
    $dest = drupal_get_destination();		// remember the original destination
    $output = drupal_goto('node/'. $nid, $dest);
  }

return _phptemplate_callback('user_profile', array('user' => $user, 'fields' => $fields));
  }

This function uses the usernode_get_node_id() function, which returns the nid of the usernode, and so that's the page that the user is directed to. Unfortunately a usernode is not a CCK node type, and therefore can't hold profile information on its own. I suppose you could use the function above but instead of redirecting to the usernode you could find the nid of the child node of a certain content type (assuming there is only 1 of that type) and then redirect the user to that page. I think that would get rid of the usernode tab. There might be a better way to do this, however. Fago may have some suggestions??

3. I haven't tried to do this yet, but it's on my list of things to do. I've looked into this a little bit and there wasn't an obvious solution. If you figure it out let me know how you did it--otherwise, I'll let you know if/when I figure it out.

4. are you using the auto_nodetitle module? If so, that's probably the reason. If not, I'm not sure.

I hope this helps
AC

Regarding coments #20 and #22 issue 3 (setting the displayed title for the page to be the user's name), here is something I wrote that seems to work fairly well. There may be a better way to do this, but I haven't come across one yet.

In your page.tpl.php file, add the following block of code after the html ..... line:

	
	// overrides the title (browser and displayed) of the node if the content type is one of those
	// used for profiles.  Checks for specific conetnt types need to be added here manually
	
	// set up default values of $head_title_override and $title_override
 	$head_title_override = $head_title;
 	$title_override = $title;	 	
	
	// first, check to see if this is a node.  If not, don't override the titles
	if ( arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1)) ) {
  	$node = node_load(arg(1)); 
  	if (is_object($node)) {
    	// get the readable names of node content types
    	$types  = node_get_types();

      // put any content types in this array for which you want to override the title
      $override_types = array('usernode', 'content_user_profile', 'content_secondary_user_profile');
   
      if (in_array($node->type, $override_types)) {
      	// override the title of this node
      	switch($node->type) {
      		case 'usernode':
      		case 'content_user_profile':
      		case 'content_secondary_user_profile':
      			$title_override = $node->name;
      			$head_title_override = $node->name.' | '.$types[$node->type];
      			break;
      	}
      }
	 	} 
	 }

Then, later on in the file, find the line:
<title><?php print $head_title ?></title>
and change it to read
<title><?php print $head_title_override ?></title>
Also find the line
<h1 class="title"><?php print $title ?></h1>
and change it to read
<h1 class="title"><?php print $title_override ?></h1>

This will cause the name of the user who created the node to be displayed as the title of the page, and the title in the browser bar will be the name and the readable name of the content type. Change those to suit your needs. Make sure to also add the content types of which you want to override the title to the array $override_types. If you want to have different behaviors depending on the content type, you can add additional cases to the switch() block.

Let me know if you have questions about this.
AC

Regarding comments #20 and #22, point 2, I've now got that working as well.
Use the code below to replace the code that I gave you earlier. Note that I think this will only work with the immediate children of the usernode. I don't believe that grandchildren will be displayed given just this code alone. Put this code in all of the template files for your different children node types of the usernode.

<?php
  // status of node must be >= this value to be returned by the below calls.
  //  Use 0 to return all nodes or 1 to return only published nodes
 	$min_status = 1;
 	
 	$user->uid = $node->uid;
 	$usernode_nid = usernode_get_node_id($user);
	$first_children = nodefamily_relation_load($usernode_nid, $min_status);

?>

<?php
		// get all the content types so that the tabs can have the
		// readable name in the tab instead of the content_type
		// or automatically created node title   
   	$types  = node_get_types();
?>
  	<div class="content user_profile_content">
    <?php 
    // msg_r($node);
    
    // begin tab printing code
    // if there are any child nodes for the current node, then make tabs
    // for those nodes 
		if (count($first_children)) { ?>
			<div class="tabs">
			<ul class="tabs secondary">
			
			<?php
			// set minimum node status to create a tab for the node
			$min_status = 1;		// 1 = published
			
  		// print tabs for parents
   		if (count($first_children)) {
        foreach ($first_children as $childnode) {
          if (node_access('view', $childnode, $user->uid) && ($childnode->status >= $min_status)) { 
          	if ($childnode->nid == $node->nid) {
          		// show that this is the active node ?>
          		<li class="active"><?php print l($types[$childnode->type], 'node/'.$childnode->nid )?></li>
          		
          	<?php	
          	} else {
          		// this is not the active node ?>
   					<li><?php print l($types[$childnode->type], 'node/'.$childnode->nid) ?> </li> <?php
   					}
  	      }
        }
      }
     }
     ?>
    </ul>
  	</div>

I'm still working on tweaking the code that goes into the template.php file that links to the content type that you want to be your user profile, instead of the usernode. I'll post that code when I get it working right.

I hope this helps

AC

Since you don't want to display the usernode, I think I would go with displaying the usernode but changing the usernode template file to display a list of your files instead of what it might normally display. If you use the following code in place of previous versions in your template files for the various content types, I think you'll have what you want.

<?php
  // status of node must be >= this value to be returned by the below calls.
  //  Use 0 to return all nodes or 1 to return only published nodes
 	$min_status = 1;
 	
 	$user->uid = $node->uid;
 	$usernode_nid = usernode_get_node_id($user);
	$first_children = nodefamily_relation_load($usernode_nid, $min_status);

?>

<?php
		// get all the content types so that the tabs can have the
		// readable name in the tab instead of the content_type
		// or automatically created node title   
   	$types  = node_get_types();
?>
  	<div class="content user_profile_content">
    <?php 
    // msg_r($node);
    
    // begin tab printing code
    // if there are any parent or child nodes for the current node, then make tabs
    // for those nodes and include the current node's tab between the parent
    // and child nodes.  If there are no parent or child nodes for the current
    // node, there is no need to print any tabs
		if (count($first_children)) { ?>
			<div class="tabs">
			<ul class="tabs secondary">
			
			<?php
			// set minimum node status to create a tab for the node
			$min_status = 1;		// 1 = published
			
  		// print tabs for parents
   		if (count($first_children)) {
        foreach ($first_children as $childnode) {
          if (node_access('view', $childnode, $user->uid) && ($childnode->status >= $min_status)) { 
          	if ($childnode->nid == $node->nid) {
          		// show that this is the active node ?>
          		<li class="active"><?php print l($types[$childnode->type], 'node/'.$childnode->nid )?></li>
          		
          	<?php	
          	} else {
          		// this is not the active node ?>
   					<li><?php print l($types[$childnode->type], 'node/'.$childnode->nid) ?> </li> <?php
   					}
  	      }
        }
      }
      
      // load the usernode
      $usernode = node_load(array('nid' => $usernode_nid));
      
      // print usernode tab which could be used to hold a list of files, for example
      if (node_access('view', $usernode, $user->uid) && ($usernode->status >= $min_status)) { 
      	if ($usernode->nid == $node->nid) {
      		// show that this is the active node ?>
      		<li class="active"><?php print l('Tab Title', 'node/'.$usernode->nid )?></li>
      		
      	<?php	
      	} else {
      		// this is not the active node ?>
				<li><?php print l('Tab Title', 'node/'.$usernode->nid) ?> </li> <?php
				}
      }
      
     }
     ?>
  </ul>
  </div>

Replace 'Tab Title' with the name you want to be displayed for the tab.

Does that accomplish what you want it to?

AC

I'm afraid I don't understand what your problem is. Can you post a screenshot?

AC

Ok, I see what you mean. That should be easy to fix.

Add (or edit) the following function to your theme's template.php file (assuming you are using a phptemplate based theme, which it looks like you are).

/**
* Catch the theme_profile_profile function, and redirect through the template api
*/
function phptemplate_user_profile($user, $fields = array()) {
  // Pass to phptemplate, including translating the parameters to an associative array. The element names are the names that the variables
  // will be assigned within your template.
  /* potential need for other code to extract field info */
  
  
  // redirect user to usernode page instead of standard drupal profile page
 	if (user_access('access user profiles')&& module_exist('usernode')) {
    $nid = usernode_get_node_id($user);
    if (module_exist('nodefamily') && $nid) {
    	$min_status = 1;
    	$usernode_children = nodefamily_relation_load($nid, $min_status);
    	if (count($usernode_children)) {
        foreach ($usernode_children as $childnode) {
          if (node_access('view', $childnode, $user->uid) && ($childnode->status >= $min_status)) { 
          	if ($childnode->type = 'content_user_profile') {
    					$dest = drupal_get_destination();		// remember the original destination
    					$output = drupal_goto('node/'. $childnode->nid, $dest);
    					return _phptemplate_callback('user_profile', array('user' => $user, 'fields' => $fields));
          	}
          }
        }
      }
    }
    $dest = drupal_get_destination();		// remember the original destination
    $output = drupal_goto('node/'. $nid, $dest);
  }

return _phptemplate_callback('user_profile', array('user' => $user, 'fields' => $fields));
}

Replace content_user_profile with the content type which you want links of users' names to point to.
Doing the above will redirect users from the real profile page for a user to your usernode/nodeprofile based page.

If you instead want the link of every user to point directly to their usernode/nodeprofile based page, you will also need to add/edit this function in your template.php file for the theme.

/**
 * Catch the theme_username function and link to the usernode instead of linking to the userpage
 */

function phptemplate_username(&$object) {

  if ($object->uid && $object->name) {
   	
  	// display the user's real name.  First, we want to see if the user has a nickname
  	// stored, and if so we use that as the first name.  Then, we add the last name
  	// and display the name
  	
  	// name lookup
		
  	$user->uid = $object->uid;

		get_real_name($user);
		if (isset($user->name)) {
			$object->name = $user->name;
		}
  	// end name lookup
   	
    // Shorten the name when it is too long or it will break many tables.
    if (drupal_strlen($object->name) > 20) {
      $name = drupal_substr($object->name, 0, 15) .'...';
    }
    else {
      $name = $object->name;
    }
	$output = check_plain($name);

    //if (user_access('access user profiles') && module_exist('usernode')) {
 		if (user_access('access user profiles')&& module_exist('usernode')) {			// dont make a link for anonymous users since they can't access the profile anyway
      $nid = usernode_get_node_id($object);
      // set default value of $output
			$output = l($name, 'node/'. $nid, array('title' => t('View user details.')));
			if (module_exist('nodefamily') && $nid) {
      	$min_status = 1;
      	$usernode_children = nodefamily_relation_load($nid, $min_status);
      	if (count($usernode_children)) {
          foreach ($usernode_children as $childnode) {
            if (node_access('view', $childnode, $user->uid) && ($childnode->status >= $min_status)) { 
            	if ($childnode->type = 'content_user_profile') {
      					$output = l($name, 'node/'. $childnode->nid, array('title' => t('View user details.')));
            	}
            }
          }
        }
    	}
     // $output = l($name, 'node/'. $nid, array('title' => t('View user details.')));
    }
    else {
      $output = check_plain($name);
    }
  }
  else if ($object->name) {
    // Sometimes modules display content composed by people who are
    // not registered members of the site (e.g. mailing list or news
    // aggregator modules). This clause enables modules to display
    // the true author of the content.
    if ($object->homepage) {
      $output = l($object->name, $object->homepage);
    }
    else {
      $output = check_plain($object->name);
    }

    $output .= ' ('. t('not verified') .')';
  }
  else {
    $output = variable_get('anonymous', 'Anonymous');
  }

  return $output;
}

Once again, change content_user_profile to whatever you are using. You might also need to change the code a little if you are allowing anonymous users to view user profiles.

This function is called by the one above, and you may need to modify the call or the function or just get rid of it completely, depending on your setup. It also goes in the template.php file.

/**
 * get the real name of a user based on their id
 */

function get_real_name(&$object) {
	if (isset($object->uid)) {
		$user->uid = $object->uid;
		profile_load_profile($user);
  	$user_name_string = "";
  	if (!empty($user->profile_nickname)) {
  		$user_name_string = $user_name_string.$user->profile_nickname." ";
  	} elseif (!empty($user->profile_fn)) {		// first name
  		$user_name_string = $user_name_string.$user->profile_fn." ";
  	}
  	if (!empty($user->profile_ln)) {		// last name
    	$user_name_string = $user_name_string.$user->profile_ln;
  	}
  	if (!empty($user_name_string)) {
  		$user->name = $user_name_string;
  		$object->name = $user_name_string;
  	}
	}
}

I think this should take care of your problem--let me know if you have questions.

AC

regarding comment #33:

point 1: When you use the function phptemplate_username() to provide a link to the user's nodeprofile instead of true user profile, that works in most places. However, I found that there were still some links that remained to the user profile (maybe because the theme function wasn't being called in those places). Since my goal was to completely eliminate access of users to their own user profile, I didn't want people to end up being able to directly view or edit their user profile, so I also added the code in phptemplate_user_profile() that redirects the user to their nodeprofile if they happen to get to their user profile. In some cases (especially while in development) it is convenient to not redirect from the user profile to the nodeprofile, and so you may want to comment out that section (or not use it at all, if you want it to be possible for users to see their user profile). I'm using LDAP authentication on my system, so I have no need for users to be able to change their passwords, for example, and I've written functions in other places that allow for synchronization of certain fields of a nodeprofile to the actual user profile fields.

point 2:
These three lines in my phptemplate_username() function determine the actual link that is used when a user's name is clicked on:

            	if ($childnode->type = 'content_user_profile') {
      					$output = l($name, 'node/'. $childnode->nid, array('title' => t('View user details.')));
            	}

If you have replaced 'content_user_profile' with 'content_personal_data' it should work unless for some reason that statement never evaluates to true, in which case I guess I'm not quite sure what would happen, but I don't think you would get a link at all. Try putting in some debugging statements around that area to see if the value of the various variables matches what you expect. Also, you could post your code for that function and I'll look at it to make sure you edited it right. Other than that, I'm not sure what's going on.

AC

To print the user's picture from their usernode, I use the following bit of code in my usernode template file:

<?php 
// print users picture by calling theme function to print picture
if (function_exists('phptemplate_user_picture')) {
	print phptemplate_user_picture($user);
} else {
	print theme_user_picture($user);
}
?>

That code calls phptemplate_user_picture() if it exists. I don't see why this wouldn't work from any other nodeprofile template file.

function phptemplate_user_picture(&$account) {
  if (variable_get('user_pictures', 0)) {
     if ($account->picture && file_exists($account->picture)) {
        $picture = file_create_url($account->picture);
      }
      else if (variable_get('user_picture_default', '')) {
        $picture = variable_get('user_picture_default', '');
      }
  
      if (isset($picture)) {
        $alt = t('%user\'s picture', array('%user' => $account->name ? $account->name : variable_get('anonymous', 'Anonymous')));
        $picture = theme('image', $picture, $alt, $alt, '', false);
 
        if (!empty($account->uid) && user_access('access user profiles') && module_exist('usernode')) {
          $nid = usernode_get_node_id($account);		// node id of the user's usernode
          $picture = l($picture, "node/$nid", array('title' => 'View user details.'), NULL, NULL, FALSE, TRUE);
        }
        return "<div class=\"picture\">$picture</div>";
      }
    }
  
} 

AC

It's not obvious to me why you're having the problems you're having, but if I were in your situation I would try to insert some debugging statements at various places to see what's happening.

First of all, I like to use these two axillary functions which print objects and arrays in a way that makes them fairly easy to read. The code is originally from the LDAP integration module, in the libdebug.php file. I think they should work if you just put these two functions in your template.php file, though I'm not positive. The functions are:

function msg($string) {
  drupal_set_message("<pre style=\"border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">$string</pre>");
}

function msg_r($object) {
  msg(print_r($object, true));
}

Now that you've done that, go into your template file, and find this section of code below and add in the debug statements as so:

// print users picture by calling theme function to print picture
if (function_exists('phptemplate_user_picture')) {
  msg_r('function exists'); 
  print phptemplate_user_picture($user);
} else {
  msg_r('no function');
  print theme_user_picture($user);
}

Then view that content type and see what is printed towards the top of the page. If you see 'function exists' then you know what part of the if statement is evaluating to true. If that's the case, go to your phptemplate_user_picture() function and try to add some debugging statements. You might try something like this below:

function phptemplate_user_picture(&$account) {
  if (variable_get('user_pictures', 0)) {
msg_r('1');
     if ($account->picture && file_exists($account->picture)) {
msg_r('2');
        $picture = file_create_url($account->picture);
      }
      else if (variable_get('user_picture_default', '')) {
msg_r('3'); 
       $picture = variable_get('user_picture_default', '');
      }
 
      if (isset($picture)) {
msg_r('4'); 
       $alt = t('%user\'s picture', array('%user' => $account->name ? $account->name : variable_get('anonymous', 'Anonymous')));
        $picture = theme('image', $picture, $alt, $alt, '', false);
 
        if (!empty($account->uid) && user_access('access user profiles') && module_exist('usernode')) {
msg_r('5'); 
         $nid = usernode_get_node_id($account);        // node id of the user's usernode
          $picture = l($picture, "node/$nid", array('title' => 'View user details.'), NULL, NULL, FALSE, TRUE);
        }
        return "<div class=\"picture\">$picture</div>";
      }
    }
 
} 

Then load the page again and see what prints. Depending on what numbers print, you should be able to figure out which parts of this code are being evaluated. You should see the numbers 1, 2, 4, and 5 printed out if the user has a valid picture. You can also use debugging statements like msg_r($picture);, msg_r($user);, msg_r($node);, etc. to print out the actual contents of variables, arrays, and objects.

Play around with this some and try to figure out where the problem is. Like I said, this code works on my system, and though I'm not claiming that the code is perfect or that there are not errors, it's hard for me to figure out what's going wrong for you since you're using pretty much the same code and it's not working.

AC

don't want to spoil this excellent thread.. but what I am trying to do seems like it must be VERY close to this.

basically I am trying to make a user profile page.

this page has various collections of info specific to the user that, so far, have all been created as tabbed views.

at the top of the page I also have a block which is a themed view of a usernode (basically I just grab the uid and then pull in everything else I need in the tpl file for the block).

I have gotten quite a ways down this path and just realized I don't have a solid plan to include a method the user to edit his "profile" info as part of this user page. And, by profile info I mean the user info (username, email, password) AND his various usernodes.
unlike the results from this thread I don't really ever need to "view" my user info (anything public is pulled into the block at top of the page); so rather than "view" versions I ONLY need the edit pages.

so not sure if this is making sense.. but I'll summarize.

- top of the page has a view block with collection of user info

- under this is a set of primary tabs (views) such as "member/$arg/my_favorites", "member/$arg/my_reviews", etc.

so what I need to add is:

- another primary tab along side those above called profile (or in similar vain as above: "member/$arg/profile".

and, under "profile" tab I would have secondary tabs for the edit forms for my various usernodes as well as my "account settings".

Hopefully this makes sense.

Does this seem possible? Does it seem like this is similar to the techniques in this thread?

I'll start looking deeper into the methods here in a few hours.. but hopefully someone can suggest if this at least seems feasible.

thanks,

Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Management Solution Experts