Icy Phoenix

Hi is it possible to place a link to a members personal album sub category on their profile page...? (all my members have 1 sub cat...)

or hint as to where to look ... been looking for a few hours now and totally lost...

Thanks for any help and for reading...

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hi

if anyone even has a smallest of clues how or if this is possible I really would be very appreciated

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Well I have a reasonable idea how to do this (assuming I understand your question correctly), its not too hard.

1) There already exists a link variable to a user's album from the profile page, in the top nav links section.
2) You can use the same link variable and put it anywhere. The actual code is




File to edit is:

templates/mg_themes/profile_view_body.tpl

Usage
Depending on where you want to put the link, e.g. suppose you want it at top of the "Information" table:

look for:


after add:


The file is html so you should be able to work out what needs to be done to place the link where you want it.

This question does remind me of a problem in the language packs - if user doesn't have an album, then you will get the message:

"Invalid combination of category id and authentication data" which is undesirable.

Actually the file responsible is album_hierarchy_auth.php, so look for that line in there and edit it to suit your prefs.... like "This User's Album / Album Category does not exist"

thanks for the reply... nearly what I wanted I was wondering if you could link to a users sub category of their personal album....

instead of their main personal album...

also thankyou for the heads up with album_hierarchy_auth.php

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Ah... ok, I should have read more carefully...
OK, what you want is a bit more involved, though not that difficult it requires going through the album_cat table, finding all cat_ids in the table that belong to cat_user_id (which is the same as the user profile being viewed).... and then generating links for those cat_ids... problem here is unknown number of sub cats, which means compromise on the way data is parsed (all this would be done from includes/usercp_viewprofile).

If I get some time I'll think how best to do it...

moreteavicar wrote: [View Post]

Ah... ok, I should have read more carefully...
OK, what you want is a bit more involved, though not that difficult it requires going through the album_cat table, finding all cat_ids in the table that belong to cat_user_id (which is the same as the user profile being viewed).... and then generating links for those cat_ids... problem here is unknown number of sub cats, which means compromise on the way data is parsed (all this would be done from includes/usercp_viewprofile).

If I get some time I'll think how best to do it...

thank you I realply appreciate that ......I just couldnt see how to get it to work...

I have moved this topic to the Customizations forum where it is more suited

Assuming you want to direct the existing link to a user's sub-cat and assuming that the user has only 1 subcat the following code change should work for you.

OPEN includes/usercp_viewprofile.php

FIND

AFTER ADD


FIND

BEFORE ADD


FIND

REPLACE WITH

Thank you works perfectly...

just one extra thing would the same code work on profile_main.php ?


thank you again very much.

Hmmm, I could be wrong, but I do not think this method will generate links to all a user's sub cats, but only one sub cat... I would have though that you need to search SQL for every instance of a cat belonging to the $user and building an array...

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just one extra thing would the same code work on profile_main.php ?

You should'nt put this in profile_main.php, because in there the user variable is not grabbed from the URL. When you are viewing a profile, this tells profile.php to include usercp_viewprofile.php. It is in usercp_viewprofile.php that the user_id of the profile being viewed is grabbed and used in generating all profile specific data.

Hi

Yes I have tested this and it only works for me as admin of the site... I did a test user and it will only show their first album.. but it is very close...

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I will not place this in profile_main.php

DWho wrote: [View Post]

.. I did a test user and it will only show their first album.. but it is very close...

From your previous post, you stated that your users only have 1 sub-cat. From that I assumed that 1 sub-cat was all that would exist for a user. :?

DWho wrote: [View Post]

...(all my members have 1 sub cat...)

Artie wrote: [View Post]

... and assuming that the user has only 1 subcat the following code change should work for you.

LOL sorry Artie, I didn't spot

Quote:

(all my members have 1 sub cat...)

:oops:

Artie wrote: [View Post]

DWho wrote: [View Post]

.. I did a test user and it will only show their first album.. but it is very close...

From your previous post, you stated that your users only have 1 sub-cat. From that I assumed that 1 sub-cat was all that would exist for a user. :?

DWho wrote: [View Post]

...(all my members have 1 sub cat...)

Artie wrote: [View Post]

... and assuming that the user has only 1 subcat the following code change should work for you.

yes that is correct... all my users have 1 sub cat each as I use this mod here am I getting confused here.... :oops:

ok when I log in as admin I can click on my personal gallery and it goes to my admin sub cat....

if I click my test accounts personal gallery link it goes to their first album and not their sub cat..

if I log in as a test account click the the same link it goes to the admins sub cat

but my test accounts link to personal gallery will goto their first album

if I am not explaining this correctly I do apologise

DWho wrote: 

yes that is correct... all my users have 1 sub cat each as I use this mod here am I getting confused here.... :oops:

I thought you may be using that mod, but I too was a bit confused :mricy:

DWho wrote: 

ok when I log in as admin I can click on my personal gallery and it goes to my admin sub cat....

if I click my test accounts personal gallery link it goes to their first album and not their sub cat..

if I log in as a test account click the the same link it goes to the admins sub cat

but my test accounts link to personal gallery will goto their first album

if I am not explaining this correctly I do apologise

In the code I provided to you (I have since corrected the code above)
REPLACE

WITH


Note: That if user does not have any pics in the subcat then the link will not take you to the subcat, but will take you too the user's main album