Changing the member profile path in Discussion Forum module
Development and Programming
Can someone point me in the right direction for altering the path pulled by this code in the discussion forum theme files:
{path:member_profile}By default that outputs {site_url}forums/member/## (the author ID) What I need is {site_url}user/profile/## (the author ID)
Moved to Development and Programming by Moderator
Hi, Kevin. That’s more of a programming question than a support question.. moving to the Programming section.
I’m looking for this as well. Does anyone know?
Maintaining both the forum module profile and the member module profile pages is quite a lot of work, and it would be a lot easier if the forum would integrate seamlessly with the members module…
After some searching, it looks like it’s one of those features planned for a future release, but it’s a bit buggy and untested.
Changing a few lines of code in 2 files will do the trick. Core files have to be hacked, so it’s not great at all; so if anyone knows of a better way, please share 😉
In ee/modules/forum/mod.forum.php, line 716, change
$this->preferences['member_profile_path'] = $this->EE->functions->create_url($this->EE->config->item('profile_trigger').'/');to
$this->preferences['member_profile_path'] = $this->EE->functions->create_url($this->EE->config->item('profile_trigger')).'/';Notice the slash at the end.
In ee/modules/forum/mod.forum.php, line 32, change
var $use_site_profile = FALSE;to
var $use_site_profile = TRUE;This is for ee version 2.1.1 build 20101020 forum version 3.1.0 build 20101018
I don’t seem to have any issues after making those changes, but will post here, if it turns out to be problematic.
Cheers, Johan