Using Profiles like social Media sites

igcorreia
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13 years 4 weeks ago #32486 by igcorreia

Using Profiles like social Media sites was created by igcorreia

This is something we just implemented

workes like a charm. The idea is simple. Each user needs to have a personal page, a PROFILE PAGE.

Steps:
1 - Create and Category, Type and Template: WELCOME
2 - Link them together.(this should be a FC feature

)
3 - Create and Category, Type and Template: PROFILE
4 - Link them together.
5 - Create an item: WELCOME using the category WELCOME.
6 - Create an menu item and link it to this item set it only for registered users.
7 - Create a login module and redirect it to this menu item after login

NOW LET GO TO THE CODE

8 - Open the item.php of the WELCOME template
9 - Add this lines:

//Get User ID

Code:

$user = JFactory::getUser();

//Define Category

Code:

$category = "1"; // This category ID for the PROFILE CATEGORY

//Define DB - Query

Code:

$db = JFactory::getDbo();
$query = $db->getQuery(true);

//Define Query

Code:

$query ->select('id')
  ->from('#__content')
  ->where('created_by="'.$user->id.'" and catid="'.$category.'" and state="1"');

//Query

Code:

$db->setQuery($query);

//Get Results

Code:

$results = $db->loadObjectList();

//Redirect the user if no profile is found

Code:

if ($results != 0 && $results != NULL && $results != "" && $results != Undefined) {
    //YES profile
    header( 'Location: /my-items-page.php' ) ;
    	} else {
    //NO  profile
    header( 'Location: /new-profile?tmpl=component' ) ;
}

//Load Template

Code:

include(JPATH_SITE.DS.'components'.DS.'com_flexicontent'.DS.'tmpl_common'.DS.'item_layouts'.DS.'modular.php');

Basically what it does is, if the user does not have at least 1 item in the category profile then redirect him to the PROFILE submission page, if it already has redirect him to his profile page.

The advantages is that like this we can use FC custom fields, categories to list the users

without the need to link anything. Like this the user is linked to a profile. Also you need to verify in the form is the current log in user already has a profile, basicly is to make sure the user does not submit 2 profiles

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13 years 3 weeks ago #32503 by micker

Replied by micker on topic Using Profiles like social Media sites

great thanks for sharing !

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13 years 3 weeks ago #32726 by igcorreia

Replied by igcorreia on topic Using Profiles like social Media sites

I have update the code to work with JGroups.
Also I am leaving the print_r so we can debug it right away.

Code:

<?php
	//Get User ID
    $user      = JFactory::getUser();
    $userGroup = $user->groups;
   // echo "<pre>";print_r($userGroup);echo "</pre>";
    if (count($userGroup) == 1 && $userGroup[2] == 2){
        //echo "Mantém aqui";
    } else {
    //Define Category
        $category = "13"; // This cateogry is profile
    //Define DB - Query
        $db       = JFactory::getDbo();
        $query    = $db->getQuery(true);
    //Define Query
        $query      ->select('id')
                    ->from('#__content')
                    ->where('created_by="'.$user->id.'" and catid="'.$category.'" ');
    //Query
        $db->setQuery($query);
    //Get Results
        $results = $db->loadObjectList();
    // Override Author
        //echo "<pre>";print_r($this->item->created_by);echo "</pre>";
        //$this->item->created_by = $user->id;
    //Teste Results
        //echo "<pre>";print_r($results);echo "</pre>";
    //Redirect the user if no profile
        if ($results != 0 && $results != NULL && $results != "" && $results != Undefined) {
            //YES it has profile
             header( 'Location: /meus-projetos' ) ;
        } else {
            //NO it has profile
             header( 'Location: /criar-novo-perfil' ) ;
        }
    }
?>

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13 years 2 weeks ago #32755 by gauthier

Replied by gauthier on topic Using Profiles like social Media sites

Very interesting,

I keep in mind to remove community builder from my system to manage myself users, lists with Flexicontent. Your idea is a good starting point.

To still innovative, I think that FC should manage itself users.

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13 years 2 weeks ago #32758 by igcorreia

Replied by igcorreia on topic Using Profiles like social Media sites

This is working well for us

Put for future features we WANT user profiles

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13 years 2 weeks ago #32759 by micker

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A Flexicommunity component or addon ?

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igcorreia
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13 years 2 weeks ago #32762 by igcorreia

Replied by igcorreia on topic Using Profiles like social Media sites

We need to make sure we define the purpose. It is for maneging Profiles so I would call it. FlexiAuthors or FlexiProfiles.

@Micker the name FlexiCommunity is very powerfull are it can be use with another purpose like jomsocial if you know what I mean. For me community is like the interactions between users.

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13 years 2 weeks ago #32767 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic Using Profiles like social Media sites

in General you should also update

a record in flexicontent_authors_ext to set this "profile" item as "author description item"

This now makes me think , we should change the "Author Description item" to be "User FLEXIprofile" ???

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13 years 2 weeks ago #32770 by igcorreia

Replied by igcorreia on topic Using Profiles like social Media sites

I forgot That one. Please confirm all the user fields in the database because I don't know them all.

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Flexi profile is coll

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12 years 11 months ago #33616 by mauriestate

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Hi,

Have been searching around the forum & FAQ and this is the only closer topic I could found about our current issue.

As mention previously in some other topics, we are currently developing a classified website, meant for real estate advertising with community features using Jomsocial, in fact, we do not want to mix things, Jomsocial, as mention in this topic is more likely for user interactivity and we want to have an author page where we can show the 'author profile' including avatar (logo or image) some basic contact details and all items that such author has added to the website.

In fact, we have various categories and sub-categories like properties for sale, properties for rent etc. Each category (sub-category) has its own type and template, hence, we want to show the items and in which category such item has been added as well.

I know this can be done with new features that have been added to FC lately but I would need some help (guidelines) how we may start this kind of approach, will the solutions provided by @algardata be good for what we are trying to do? Or is there any new simpler solution to achieve this?

Note: We do not want to build a complicated author profile, just the avatar, contact details and items added by this author, such author profile needs to be as individual items within specific categories so that we can use such information as relative fields within other categories.

That is, when a user is adding for let say, a property for sale, in the category view and item view, we'll be showing the author avatar and his contact details as well in some other tab, such information will be retrieved from the author type.

Hope I was clear enough about what we want to do! If not, please let me know and I will try to provide more information.

Offering professional real estate and investment services in Mauritius. Visit us at www.sjkestate.com to also see the power of Flexicontent with Joomla to promote our services.

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