Profiles as nodes

This group should probably have more organizers. See documentation on this recommendation.

We are a developers group that are very much interested in using nodes for profiles. There is a module, and some other code already, but that needs polishing.

Especially for bigger and more complex communities, people need features such as finer grained permissions on profiles, categorising of users, or simply search in profiles. Nodes offer all that. We tie them together.

Book Launch. Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide

Posted by dorien on January 28, 2009 at 9:43pm

UPDATE

The book has been updated to the latest modules and is also available as a paperback book on Amazon. The ebook has also been updated and is still available here.

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I thought you might be interested in the new ebook that has been published:

Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide.
With notes for Drupal 5
Now everyone can set up a community.

ISBN 978-2-8399-0490-2

Can we ever get a usable community site out of the box with Drupal? (Theorical question, opinions wanted)

Posted by Rosamunda on December 28, 2008 at 4:18am

Hi there!

I´ve been around this group for a while, and there have been a lot of new "drupal-for-2.0-community" stuff lately.
Anyway, there´s this thing that´s bothering me since I´ve started to get my hands dirty with Drupal, and I really need to hear what you think about:
Drupal core profiles: They are not able to be managed as nodes (duh!), and you always need some contrib module to do that for you. Can we get a usable out of the box community site?

Profile + panels + tabs

Posted by ccdoss on December 18, 2008 at 3:39am

Hello,
I'd like to have a fairly complicated profile. I'd like to combine the advanced profile kit's panels with nodeprofile, and have this linked to the user account. Basically, I want 4 things:
1. When users go to www.example.com/profiles/member-name, it brings up member-name's public profile, which of course is in a panel page.

How to convert Bio from D5 to Content Profile in D6

Posted by dotty on November 30, 2008 at 1:23am

I am using Bio module in D5 and ready to upgrade to D6. I guess we need to use Content Profile module in D6. Is there any procedure or after upgrading to D6, just install Content profile module to take over bio module...? Please advise how can do that....Any links for the procedure we need to follow?

Paid membership possible somehow?

Posted by durum on November 23, 2008 at 7:35pm

Hi everyone,

This is my first post in groups, so hope you are all doing well..

I need to set up a website with paid membership where after payment users will be able to edit their profile fields provided by Content Profile and use the Blog in their profiles. As far as I found out, to do this I have to create a role with appropriate permissions and upon payment that role should be given.

I want to use D6, so that I can benefit from extended features of it.

So far I couldn't make eCommerce beta3 and Content Profile work together for this on D6.

User Gmap in Panel?

Posted by halfiranian on November 1, 2008 at 9:24pm

Hi guys,

My head is halfway between dead and inside out.

Quick question: does anyone know where there's a good tutorial (text or vid) that explains contexts/relationships/arguments in panels?

Longer question: I'm trying to get slick profile pages on my community website and I'd love to have a gmap of user location as a mini-panel.

I've got usernode running which takes the user location and is used by views for displaying all members on a big map

A stable user profile configuration for Drupal 6?

Posted by kirilius on October 27, 2008 at 4:00pm

I am trying to build some typical social networking functionality for my site: configurable user profiles, home pages, where user submitted contents can be grouped and presented, possibly adding view blocks to the user profile pages, etc.

Allowing users to create multiple userish nodes only one of which is linked to their user

Posted by dalin on October 25, 2008 at 10:36am

Lets say that I want to have a content type for "Experts"

any user can create an expert but a user is not required to create an expert.
a user can create multiple experts.
the initial expert that the user creates is their profile and treated like the traditional user<->node concept.

Can any of the existing user<->node modules fulfill this requirement, or do I need to do some hook_nodeapi work with a hidden user_reference field?

users and levels

Posted by albies on October 17, 2008 at 12:46pm

Is possible to assign user at levels? So I how admin am at level1, my user at level2 and they users at level3.
And every level can manage how want the lower levels.

Example use:
Level 2 can only see/manage own and lower users (not top)
etc.

Is possible delete the users by one users module?

Posted by albies on October 17, 2008 at 12:40pm

I notice that there are many modules for manage users.
They associate a user at node.
But is possible when one delete an user , really delete the user's account?
I tested members og and this isn't possible.You can only eliminate members but it remains the drupal account.
Also tested usernode, wher in the view I add an delete field. But not work.

Is there some solutions?

Can the admin to not be listed in the Access user profiles ?

Posted by albies on October 17, 2008 at 12:35pm

If I am the site's admin, I can see/manage all the users. This is normal.

But why, if an user have permission for Access at user profiles, can to see also me in the user list?
Is possible, I (the site admin) not to appear in those list?

Idea: Profile syncronization with nodes

Posted by mgenovese on September 17, 2008 at 3:20am

I have been brainstorming the issue of user profiles, and the node profile solution for Drupal 5.x. What I have observed is that a number of modules already exist that leverage Drupal user profile data. So, I'm not particularly in favor of building a site that does not use profiles, as that limits the modules I might use that interact with profiles. But yet, the idea of using node profiles is compelling for similar reasons: Many modules exist that operate upon nodes, not the least of which are Views and CCK.

Some help with nodeprofile_load function?

Posted by elly on September 12, 2008 at 10:54am

Hi all,

My site is 5.10 and using node profile module. I'm creating a complex CCK custom form template, and I'm trying to include user information about the current user in the top of the form, such as "you're currently logged in as Firstname Lastname" in the top of the template before the form is rendered, as well as print certain fields based on information in the user's profile.

My node profile node type is called "vspot-profile". I am using the following just to test and see what info is available to me, and not having much luck.

<?php
global $user;

Hide field by expired author role

Posted by liliplanet on August 29, 2008 at 9:18am

Hi All,

Hope you are very well.

What I would like is that say when a Platinum member role expires, it hides their own specific content.

This works that if you are a Platinum member, you are able to view this field.

<?php if (user_access('Platinum')): ?>
<div class="field field-type-text field-field-amount">
  <div class="field-items">
      <div class="field-item">Amount: <?php print $node->field_amount[0]['view'] ?></div>
  </div>
</div>

redirecting user to node ...

Posted by liliplanet on August 27, 2008 at 6:47pm

Hi All,

Just a little confused here and perhaps a question for Michelle :)

As many links i.e 'add ... nodereview, flag, etc' fall automatically in the links of nodes of your content types, why do we redirect the content type 'profile' to the usernode? as in node-profile.tpl.php as follows:

How to redirect link to /node/% to /user/% ?

Posted by xenode on August 22, 2008 at 4:14am

My setup is Drupal 5.10 and the latest versions of:

usernode, node profile, node family, imagefield, imagecache, Views, CCK

I am using the above modules to create userprofiles, whose pictures are displayed in a gallery format using imagefield+imagecache+views. My user profiles are taken over using michelle's template.php snippet, featured in her userprofiles #1 tutorial. Every /user/% looks just like its corresponding /node/%.

In views I add the field "field_image_field" and "Node: Author Name". This creates a photo gallery, with the user's name under each image.

Permissions for Node Profile

Posted by mcsnolte on August 11, 2008 at 3:42pm

For the site we're creating we would like users to only be able to edit their Node Profile node, but no need to create one (our import tool creates a profile for them). However, it looks like this is not possible since it seems you need permission to "Create" the profile in order to edit it. Has any found a way to get around this?

How do you set up user profiles?

Posted by specmav on July 7, 2008 at 6:42am

With the vast amount of profile as nodes implementations, how do you set up your own profiles on your sites?

What I am really looking for are what modules are deprecated and rarely used to the more flexible and complete user profile solution.

Does anyone who is serious about creating complex and dynamic profile(s) ever use profile.module and if so, why?

Do you use any custom coding, and if yes then for what?

I am really looking forward to creating a profile solution for one of my sites and I want to maintain a clean back end and flexibility.

Format and line breaks in multi-line text

Posted by liliplanet on May 23, 2008 at 10:01am

Hi!

I can imagine this is pretty easy, but have done an extensive search and :) cannot find a solution please ..

Inserting a multi-line text in node-profile.tpl.php with field_introduction and field_detailed_profile just prints as text without line breaks or automatic links.