website.com/username

[scottdallas]

I have no idea how it would be done or where to start but I was thinking it would be awesome if when a user signed up on cnr it would automatically create them a directory on the website so website.com/username shows up.. then when they write stuff it could show up their main news on their page and on like username/view.php?news-article.html

Seems like most logical setup to me at the moment. hmm

[Partyism]

uhm correct me if im wrong but isnt this already possible?

example: http://www.partyism.nl/leden/partyism-nl
translated : http://www.partyism.nl/member/membername

Avatar beeing showed, all fields en my articles...

[scottdallas]

yes.. it appears when one acquires such knowledge, such as yourself, this can occur happily.

CAN YOU SHARE YOUR SECRETS? (reminds me of that MadTV skit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTFZyl7hfBw)

hey what's goin on with the /member/ part in the URL tho lol... dont want it

[Partyism]

ive made a page called profile.php in root
in my templates i have a link on a member name like this:

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<a href="{link=../profile/user}" title="Go to {author}s profile">{author}</a>

urls.ini

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[../profile]
dousers = "member{add:do=users}"
user = "member/{user:do=users}"

my include code on all pages:

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<?PHP
            if ($do == 'users'){
               include $cutepath.'/show_users.php';
            } elseif ($do == 'archives'){
               echo cn_archives();
            } else {
               $number = "15";
               $template = "Headlines";
               $category = "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22";
               include($cutepath.'/show_news.php');
            }
         ?>   

[scottdallas]

nice i see i'm going to forget tho so i'm going to bookmark this and come back to study it

my members list works on scodal.com but when you click names it goes to the wrong page and stuff. i've been needing to figure out what's up with all that. this should help

[Partyism]

Good luck, youll need it.

[scottdallas]

lol it always says that on SmashTV right before you start.. "Good luck.. you'lllll need it!" am i the only one that played that?

I still haven't looked into the code yet.

update okay checked it out

So, I'm guessing I only need this to make it work

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<?PHP
            if ($do == 'users'){
               include $cutepath.'/show_users.php';
            } else {
               $number = "10";
               include($cutepath.'/show_news.php');
            }
         ?>

Yes, correct.. lol.. Okay, I'm getting somewhere with this:
http://www.scodal.com/who.php?users/scodal.html
http://www.scodal.com/who.php?users/dice.html

I wish I could take out 'users/'.... also does it do this on your site? When you're on a content page, for example: http://www.scodal.com/view.php?this-is-awesome.html then I click the user 'dice' (on far right).. it takes you to http://www.scodal.com/who.php?users/dic ... esome.html which is wrong.. and in comments it doesn't work at all showing up as http://www.scodal.com/{link=../who/user} in the href lol and that's as far as i'm going to get with that for now

oh one more thing that would be cool if we could figure it out is to get the 'requested' username in the <title> field so SEO would see this page (http://www.scodal.com/who.php?users/dice.html) as <title>profile of 'dice' :: scodal.com</title> or something

[typeman]

I'm having great difficulties with this.

I've done exactly as said above and I've come into two problems with it.

1) My CSS isn't loading (pointing to the wrong place) on the member's profile.

2) When on the profile, the show_users.php doesn't seem to work, thus meaning nothing where it's supposed to be, is there.

Can any help please?

[liketobemad]

For CSS
Try linking complete url like

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://yoursite.com/style.css" media="all" type="text/css" />

and for inclusion of Php files

try include absolute paths.... like /home/...

[Hawk]

For css, I would recommend using absolute paths instead a full domain, so it that case your code would look like this:

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<link href="/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

With PHP include, using absolute paths needs to be done like this, otherwise it won't work, or you can just use relative paths.
Example how to do include with absolute path:

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<?php include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/includes/includefile.php"; ?>

[typeman]

For css, I would recommend using absolute paths instead a full domain, so it that case your code would look like this:

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<link href="/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

With PHP include, using absolute paths needs to be done like this, otherwise it won't work, or you can just use relative paths.
Example how to do include with absolute path:

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<?php include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/includes/includefile.php"; ?>

Thanks

I've done that and now all the stuff is there. My only problem now is the URL ini. I've done exactly as stated above, but the user's profile doesn't appear on the page. However, the table thing does (if i haven't selected a user).

[Hawk]

Hm, you could try with something like this:

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dousers = "{add:do=users}"
user = "{user:do=users}.html"

Not sure why, but for some reason I never managed to get to post news without the extension, so maybe the same thing is case here too.
However, I would suggest using the code like this

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dousers = "users{add:do=users}"
user = "users/{user:do=users}.html"

simply for seo reasons, as user profile information isn't the most relevant information you have on your site, so you would get other more important pages better indexed.