I love the way you can use a phrase like "People who live in %" using the regular Drupal profile module and then by clicking the link, get a list of all users who live in %. I'm trying to get the same thing happening with profiles as nodes. I've tried using CCK taxonomy fields in both the Node Profiles and the Bio Modules. It almost works, but only intermittantly. Sometimes I get the message "There are currently no posts in this category ..." other times, some users will show up and others won't - even when they have been tagged with the the term. Changes to the tags after the first publishing seem to be unpredictable and forget free-tagging entirely! It really messes things up! I tried Michelle's tutorial, but the free tagging terms didn't show up at all for me. I'm using Drupal 5.1
None of it seems to make any logical sense. I would stick with the regular profile module except:
1) It seems hard to theme
2) I'd like to be able to use views to allow users to search by taxonomy.
Is there something I'm missing? I'm using clean urls, pathauto and URLify.
or is there a way I can theme the regular Drupal profile module so that the user account page has 2 columns? I guess I can live without views.
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can you really do this? I mean use the tagging idea in relation to information in profiles, and the basic profile module at that?!
thanks
maybe you can use this...
I am using Michelles excellent tutorial to have profiles as nodes: http://shellmultimedia.com/tutorials/user-profiles
She has done a userlisting with views where you can filter depending on what you have chosen in the drop-downs, for example home country. You can then link from your user profile to the userlisting like this:
<?phpprint '<a href ="YOURDOMAIN/userlisting&filter0=<strong>ALL</strong>&filter1=<strong>ALL</strong>&filter2=' . $node->field_country[0]['value'] . '&filter3=<strong>ALL</strong>&filter4=<strong>ALL</strong>">' . $node->field_country[0]['value'] . '</a>';
?>
This will display the users home country as a link in the profile and when you click on it you will be directed to the userlisting. In my case drop down 2 (filter2) in the userlisting is "home country". Meaning that the user has chosen his/her home country from a drop down in the registration process.
/Seth