Posted by zzJames on May 6, 2007 at 6:04pm
This site uses nodeprofile/nodefamily and usernode. It's a site for members of the east london arts community to represent themselves,
each user has an associated CCK node which they use as a profile, when the users create there profiles they tag themselves with there artistic skills and styles.
The site has a advanced search and tag cloud for potential employers to quickly find relevant artists and see samples of there work.
It also has a section called 'the lab' with the usual community networking tools (forums, messages, links etc)
it's currently in beta, there is a lot still to do, but any feedback is helpful.
James
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Looking really good!
Just wanted to say thanks for sharing your site with us. I really like the advanced search capability for the profiles via Art-form / Media, Skills, and Styles! It really helps me see the possibilities.
I'm not a developer and know nothing about PHP. Was there a lot of programming involved to build the functionality behind "each user has an associated CCK node which they use as a profile, when the users create there profiles they tag themselves with there artistic skills and styles"? Or is that functionality pretty much "out of the box" and easy to set up when one uses the nodeprofile, nodefamily, and usernode modules?
Thanks in advance for your kind feedback. Any insights and words of advice greatly appreciated.
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Tutorial
It's not finished, but should give you an idea of what's involved...
http://dev.shellmultimedia.com/node/48
Michelle
Your tutorials are excellent!
And you're a great author!
Thank you & please keep up the good work.
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Thanks :)
I was hoping to have it finished today but then I realized I broke my user listing view when I moved from usernode and spent all my son's nap time fixing that. I'll give it another go during his nap tomorrow.
Michelle
some programming....
Using usernode, nodeprofile, nodefamily makes it fairly easy without coding to make the profiles and then link them to the users. There are several places where how to do that is explained, (in the posts for this group...) but there is some coding also in Launchlab.
the programming came with drupal's taxonomy module, in the out-of-the-box functionality you can create several classes of tags that you want to have applied to the profiles, I have art-forms, skills and styles although you could for example have (in a different context) tags which are animals, vegetables, minerals - you see what I mean? the group or 'vocabulary' that a set of tags belongs to are named by you (the admin), and even if the same word comes up in both 'classes' of tags, drupal sees them as seperate. This is all well and good and as it should be.
However! when drupal displays the node, in my case the profile node, then it simply constructs a single list of all the tags,
it does them in the order of the 'class' they belong to, i.e. if my groups WERE animal, vegetable, mineral then drupal would print the tags something like 'cheetah, elephant, cucumber, poppy, sodium chloride'
the PROBLEM is, in drupal's PHP they all are delivered to the front-end (HTML) with the PHP statement:
print $tags
meaning that in the HTML template you don't have very much control over the layout.
so I had to over-ride the function for displaying tags so that the back end produced 3 lists which I could deliver into the HTML tamplate, in the example above it would become something like
print $animal_tags;
print $vegetable_tags;
print $mineral_tags;
The second problem was that 'only in the case of user-profiles' did I want that tag seperating functionality, so as well as an override function (which lives in the template.php file) I altered the taxonomy.module slightly too.
The code I used is a bit of a hack, there was not time to come up with a beautiful coding solution, but I can probably send it to you, or post it here. 99% of the code goes in the template.php file in the themes folder, so it does not put your site at risk to try it out.
thanks for your supportive comments
James
Thanks...
If you don't mind, I think it's best for the benefit of the community if you could post it here.
Thank you James! Keep up the good work.
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Image Upload
Hi James
When I registered and uploaded an image I got
FYI!! I am implementing Usernode / Profiles on a site, too. Good luck!
Ken
node-family/usernode and profile simultaneously
I am not sure if i did something wrong, but when i tried to use the node
family/usernode and profile.module simultaneously i kept getting error messages.
I am trying to do the following
Users have a "profilepage" using nodefamily/usernode (using Michelle's tutorial)
and also I will create a node-type using CKK called "player profile", whereby users can add a profile of their favourite baseball player. (like you have there users add an artist profile)
The reason I need to use the core profile module is because of some modules like online status, adsense etc
any chance you guys know how to set this up
thanks
Good question about using Node Profile, AdSense, & core profile
Please see my post at http://groups.drupal.org/node/4001
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me.
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Of course the modules work
Of course the modules work together - there is nothing special required just enable and configure both. If you are experiencing bugs, please create issues and describe them.
Nice Work - Pageroute? Usernode?
James,
Very nice work! I joined to take a look around, as I'm currently reviewing options for creating user profiles. A few questions/notes:
Did you use the Pageroute module to create the three buttons for profile editing?
Suggestion: "complete profile editing" is a little unclear to me as a button title. One possible meaning is that the user must click that button to finish the editing process. Perhaps something like [edit][upload][view] or [profile][images][preview] might be clearer.
What do you use the Usernode module for? My impression is that it is needed to allow nodeprofile to use multiple nodes via nodefamily.
Thanks Much,
Ray
Ray Guillette
Void Engineer
www.voidengineering.com
Sorry have not been posting
Hi
there were some requests for code for displaying categories/tags in there specific groups as opposed to one list, I meant to post it but currently I am having problems with it, as we have changed the categories and the code was 'hard coded' to the initial set-up.
I will post when it is fixed.
thanks for feedback everyone, and yes to Ray, the only reason I have used usernode module is to have drupal create an (unseen) node that the profiles are attached to using nodeprofile/nodefamily.
cheers
James
code for displaying user profile taxonomy tags in their category
first change the taxonomy.module function hook_link.
it's a good idea to move the taxonomy module from the modules folder and put it under /sites/modules (drupal 4.7), this means if you have to reinstall drupal or do a security update, you will not write over your altered taxonomy module script - providing you don't copy sites folder from the new install!
here is the changed script - bare in mind that my site is called launchlab, so I used the word in the script. Also my content type associated with the usernode is called 'content_artiist_profile' so you will need to make appropriate changes
The basic purpose of this function is to identify whether the node that called the taxonomy_link function was a user profile node.
function taxonomy_link($type, $node = NULL)
{
if ($type == 'taxonomy terms' && $node != NULL)
{
$links = array();
if (array_key_exists('taxonomy', $node))
{
if ($node->type === 'content_artiist_profile') { // is this a profile node
$links = launchlab_taxonomy_format($type, $node);
return $links;
}
foreach ($node->taxonomy as $term)
{
$links[] = l($term->name, taxonomy_term_path($term), array('rel' => 'tag', 'title' => strip_tags($term->description)));
}
return $links;
}
}
}
so now you need the funtion that displays the tags in a custom way.
here is mine, I keep it in the template.php file
function launchlab_taxonomy_format($type, $node) {
$category_terms_array = array();
foreach ($node->taxonomy as $term)
{
$vocabulary = taxonomy_get_vocabulary($term->vid);
$category_terms_array[$vocabulary->name][] = $term;
}
foreach($category_terms_array as $key => $value)
{
$start = "<span class=\"vocname\">$key: </span>";
$end ="";
foreach($category_terms_array[$key] as $term)
{
print $is_front;
if ($GLOBALS['current_view']->name != 'talent') {
$tooltip = "click to see more profiles with $term->name in $key";
$end .= "<span class=\"\">".l($term->name, taxonomy_term_path($term)."/content_artisist_profile", array('rel' => 'tag', 'title' => $tooltip))." </span>";
} else {
$end .= "<span class=\"\">".$term->name." </span>";
}
}
$output = $start.$end."<br />";
$links[] = $output;
}
return $links;
}
If that's useful to anyone I am very happy
cheers
speak soon!!
James
formatting bit off
sorry about the lack of indenting in the code examples above. I put it in but when I put the [code] tags around it, the tabs disappeared!
It's not finished, but
It's not finished, but should give you an idea of what's involved...
Oyun
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