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.

user docs

Posted by sime on March 12, 2007 at 11:56am

Hi, can someone please point me to user docs for nodeprofile?

Edit: hang a sec, usernode has some docs...

Usernode or Content Type

Posted by bfbryan1811 on March 3, 2007 at 4:16pm

Is it better to user the usernode as the external display of a user's profile or is it better to use the profile page created via the content type? Right now I have the usernode established as the user's own profile page with edit links but I also want to display the same info to registered users.

Losing my edit tabs on my Usernode

Posted by angelus7 on February 24, 2007 at 10:57am

Hi All,

I am relatively new to this Drupal malarky, but the instructions I have picked up from reading through this group have been great so far. I have hit a problem now though.

I don't require a complex user profile, and so I have just set up custom fields on the usernode. I want to have two separate links in the menu, one to the user profile (named "my account" to allow users to change private account related information) and one to the usernode (named "public profile").

Why use node profile instead of just adding CCK to usernode?

Posted by Garret on February 21, 2007 at 5:39pm

I'm on Drupal 5. When I use nodeprofile to hold and display user profile data the "edit" button, at the top of a user's profile page, goes to edit the usernode instead of the node profile, because that's the container.

Why not just use CCK to add all the fields I want directly to usernode? It seems like that would be a lot simpler, more elegant; and it would eliminate the need to patch all these functions to make my node profile viewable and editable from everywhere usernode appears. Am I missing something?

Before you answer the question, here's what I'm going for ...

Baffled by nodeprofile

Posted by joachim on February 20, 2007 at 4:36pm

I've installed nodeprofile, and I've read older posts here, on the drupal forum, and links, and I'm still rather confused.

Basically, what does nodeprofile actually do? When I mark a the content type as user profile, what changes?
When I click my user name at the top of a post, I still go to the old profile page, not the new content type, so I don't see any difference.

I'm following the readme for making a simple user profile, which is what I want:

Create your content type you want to use for your profile, e.g. with the CCK.
-- done that

Editing two nodes for each user??

Posted by patchak on February 3, 2007 at 8:05pm

Hi all

I'm new to this group, but very interested in the node profile and user nodes features. I'm wondering something tho...

Is it me or if you want to use a cck node for profiles and also user node as well, each user would have to edit two nodes, as his profile and not only one??

Because for example I want to use taxonomy for each user... would that mean that the user has to enter some keywords in his usernode, even though he has actually another profile node (the cck custom one??)

Database and user.module errors, please help!

Posted by Rosamunda on January 22, 2007 at 5:22pm

Hi!
After reading much about this whole business of creating nodeprofiles and stuff, I´ve got what I wanted.
My BIG problem now is that the comments for annonymous users doesn´t appear, and annonymous users cannot post (they fill in the form, but it doesn´t publish).
I haven´t changed a thing, apart from installing nodeprofile, nodefamily and usernode.
Could that have caused the problem? I don´t think so, because I´ve deactivated them, and the problem persists.

Avoid having two profiles: The default one and the "new" one created by nodeprofile

Posted by Rosamunda on January 20, 2007 at 4:29pm

Hello again :)

I´ve managed to create profiles nodes and attached them to several users on my demo installation. It was easier that I realize at the beggining (thank to your help guys!!). But this way, people have two profiles, and that´s pretty confusing, because they will have to edit both when they want to change, ie. their email or telephone number.
I know that thare´s a way to change the "original" profile link for the new profile_node, but what if I don´t want all users to be allowed to create their "new" node_profile?

Completely lost

Posted by Rosamunda on January 17, 2007 at 4:31pm

Hi there!
I´ve been searching the forums for a while, and I´m sincerely lost about this issue.

I came to realize that there´s NO WAY to add taxonomy terms to the simple, yet easy, core module "profile".

So, I´ve installed the nodeprofile module. It needs the nodefamily to run, and it suggests you to install the usernode module.
I´ve done all that, and I´ve readed the readme files of all of them.

And yet, I´m clueless about how to replace the profile with all this confusing stuff. I´ve installed three modules already to replace one.

How do I put categories/taxonomy on usernode??

Posted by zzJames on January 16, 2007 at 7:10pm

I have tried to apply categories/taxonomy to usernodes but can't figure out how user can add categories

for example on my site the user zz_james can see his usernode editpage by going to the url

http://launchlab.org.uk/?q=node/31/edit

but how can I make a general page which I can hard-code into a menu for any user?

Pageroute module destination parameter how/where?

Posted by zzJames on January 8, 2007 at 1:53pm

I realise this is a support question, but it raised no joy for me in the usual drupal forum, so I ask here because maybe there are more experienced people using Wolfgang's modules (or Wolfgang himself!)

ok question is.....

in the pagerouteUI admin pages there is an option "Preserve destination parameter during this route."

I assume this means the URL to be directed to at the end of the route?

How do I pass/specify this parameter, there seems to be nothing in the pageroute documentation.....

Thankyou

zz_james

Using "profile" fields held in nodeprofile content types?

Posted by jockox3 on January 2, 2007 at 4:28am

I posted this in the support forums on drupal.org and then wondered if it might be better in here. It may be more suited to module development, but it's about use, I think, not development.

Anyhow, I'm probably missing something really easy, but I've done an extensive trawl of what documentation I can find and can't get any clues.

New to Drupal looking for a way in to using nodes as profiles?

Posted by zzJames on December 14, 2006 at 11:46am

If like me you are not new to PHP, Web development or CMSs but new to Drupal and hoping to build a website with complex user profiles you may be looking for that killer link that documents putting modules like nodeprofile and usernode through their paces.

Does anyone know the URL of that tutorial, or anything even remotely like it?

Thanks in advance :-)

zzJames

MicroID Module

Posted by tanepiper on November 30, 2006 at 6:07pm

Hey fellow Microformatters,

I've been working on a small side-element to Microformats in Drupal and it will be ready to commit to the CVS at some point tommorow.

I have created microid.module, which creates a MicroID hash in the user profile.

At the moment, it's a little hard coded. First off all, there is the function that creates the hash:

<?php
function microid_genhash($email, $url)
{
  return sha1(sha1("mailto:" . trim($email)) . sha1(trim($url)));
}
?>

Now, what I do with this is I get $user->email to generate the email part of the hash, thats fine. But for the profile side, I have specified that there must be a field called profile_homepage. The reason for this is that the URL you want to create the hash with should be your homepage, thats how you will be identified.

How shall we do hCards?

Posted by tanepiper on November 22, 2006 at 5:39pm

I've been thinking about how to do hCards. I built a small example version which I commited to the CVS. It builds up the XHTML using JavaScript and works well as an example, but is very bulky and I can see it becoming very limited.

I'm thinking a better option may be to use the existing Profiles module to build hCards. With Profiles, you can create custom profile fields, and my idea is to build a custom hCard module that takes these fields and allows you to map them to defined hCard fields (i.e. profile-firstname = given-name, profile-company = org, etc) which this module then outputs in the correct format.

The most amazing drupal site i've seen! + Profile solution discussion

Posted by tounano@drupal.org on November 13, 2006 at 9:50pm

Hi everybody,

While making my research about Drupal profile solutions, I was pointed to the following site:
http://www.goingon.com

I was shocked after surfing the site. This site is powered by Drupal and it's amazing! WOW!!!

I want that our BB project will have such full featured profile like in goingon.com. Does anyone have any clue which profile module this site is using? What are the other modules of that site?

Thanks and have a nice day.

Pages based on profiles....

Posted by sushiGer on November 5, 2006 at 5:47pm

Hi all,

I have just installed all the fancy stuff for userprofiles. And I realy like the functionality!
So my first goal is achieved: having a powerfull user profile....
But now I'm looking for an possibility to build upon this profiles..
So I would like to have to possibility to show users based on there profiles a list of "interesting" pages...
So does anybody have an idea how to do this?

Best Regards,
SushiGer

Searchable Profile Fields

Posted by jaxxed@drupal.o... on September 13, 2006 at 11:54pm

It will likely be important to replicate the old profile.module functionality for clicking on a profile value to search for all of the other profiles that match that field. Obviously this doesn't make sense for long text fields but it does for any shorter text fields (favorite book=>'Old Yeller' ,) and for many other field widgets.

Could this be done using views or would it be much better to do in cck, or in cck output widgets?

IMHO: it should likely be done in cck, but not in the widgets.

If response dictates I can take this discussion to the cck group.

Rave reviews on the Lullabot Podcast

Posted by owen barton on September 13, 2006 at 8:32am

Hi All,

Just incase you missed it - http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/drupal_podcast_no_23_summer_of_code_wr... - has a great review of the node profile modules, and also a good overview of how it all fits together if you are trying to grok how this all works.

Grugnog

SoC: Test the nodeprofile modules!

Posted by fago on August 16, 2006 at 3:47pm

SoC is ending soon and a lot of code has been written. So I would appreciate if you could help testing my modules!

The modules I've built are:

nodeprofile.module - Marks content types as profiles
usernode.module - Automatically creation of usernodes
nodefamily.module - Builds nodefamilies based on content types and author information
views_fusion.module - Provides fusing of multiple views.
pageroute.module - Allows the creation of userfriendly wizards

All this modules are compatible with drupal 4.7, so use a recent 4.7 install to test.
All modules except of the nodeprofile module have been built generally, so that they are useful for all nodes, not only for nodeprofiles!

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