Tutorials

I've started converting Coulee Region ONLINE, which was the basis of the user profile tutorials, to using advanced profile. So I have some preliminary docs for converting from the tutorial:

1. Take your site offline as this will make a temporary mess
2. Disable nodeprofile bonus (this won't be needed anymore so can be deleted as well if you want)

User Profiles Version 3 is no longer just a tutorial. I have taken as much as I could of version 2 and put it into the Advanced Profile module. By using Panels 2 as a base, I can provide a base to build on and a bunch of building blocks which non programmers can use to put together a customized user profile.

In working on the advanced forum module, I needed a full forum to work on. I used the devel module and ended up with forums full of "this post has been moved". It turns out that devel doesn't fill in forum.tid. So I needed to run this SQL:

update forum
inner join term_node on forum.nid = term_node.nid

Aug 26, 2008: A recent user of this tutorial wrote some updates here.

Note: This tutorial was written before fivestar gained the ability to use comments for rating. It's still useful if you want your reviews to be nodes.

There are a lot of modules involved in making a fancy user profile. To get just a bare bones profile showing user entered profile data and their recent posts, you need (dependent modules listed under each main module):

• Advanced Profile
• CCK
  - Content (included)