Nesting exp:weblog:entries or linking members to entries

Phoebe

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I have an existing site (http://www.irtpa.com) where there is a weblog with one entry for each real tennis player. They now want players to have their own blogs. No problem I thought, but I am currently stuck. This is what I have so far:

An existing weblog ‘players’ with one entry per player (I’ve added a blogger_username field to link to member)
A member is created for each player who wants to blog
A new weblog ‘blogs’ where the author/username is used to link back to the player.

Here is the problem.

I want a page to list all the blog entries for a player, so I have a template that is called .... index.php/tennis/player_blog/joe_soap

In the template, what I want to do is:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="players" ...}     <-- this gets existing info on the player inc. username

  {player_pic} etc. 

  
  {exp:weblog:entries weblog="blogs" username="{blogger_username}" dynamic="off"}

      {title} etc.

EE doesn’t seem to want to nest exp:weblog:entries.
I’ve tried this approach

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="players" ...}  

<?php $blogger="{blogger_username}" ?>


{/exp:weblog:entries}

    
      
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{weblog_name}"  dynamic="off" username="<?php echo $blogger; ?>"}

...

The value $blogger is correctly set after the first exp:weblog:entries if php is set to output, but doesn’t get passed as a parameter to the call of the second exp:weblog:entries.
Also tried this using assign_variable with no success.

I know EE was not design to do this and if they had specified blogs at the beginning I would have design differently…..

I can rewrite the weblog:entries as a module to do exactly what I want, just wondered if anyone had any other ideas and could point out a simpler or obvious solution I have missed.

Phoebe.

<h1>Players Profiles</h1> <?php // if passed a number then it will be this players member_id not the entry_id in their profile, so have to convert global $DB; $e="{segment_3}"; if ($e>0) { $sql="SELECT m_field_id_1 as profile_id, username FROM exp_member_data d, exp_members m WHERE m.member_id=d.member_id AND d.member_id=".$e; $query=$DB->query($sql); if ($query->num_rows>0 && $query->row['profile_id']>0) $_POST['entry_id']=$query->row['profile_id']; $_POST['username']=$query->row['username']; } ?> {exp:weblog:entries weblog="players" limit="1" dynamic="off" dynamic_parameters="entry_id"} display stuff from first weblog which has player details {/exp:weblog:entries} {exp:weblog:entries weblog="{weblog_name}" orderby="date" sort="desc" dynamic="off" dynamic_parameters="username"} display stuff from second weblog which has blog entries {/exp:weblog:entries}

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