Restore link to 'Your Profile' in menu, but make linkable URL obvious

[tog22]

Restore link to 'Your Profile' in menu, but make linkable URL obvious

[tog22]

@cdc482 given the above do you think you should make this your top priority?

[cdc482]

I'm happy to make this my priority. To be clear, this should be my first
priority followed by the hiltons task suggester, right?

On Wednesday, July 8, 2015, tog22 [email protected] wrote:

@cdc482 https://github.com/cdc482 given the above do you think you
should make this your top priority?

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[tog22]

Yes

[cdc482]

I agree with your suggestion about using a drupal hook in template.php. Definitely seems like the easiest solution. I am considering a couple other options:

1. Adding a your profile/signout button to replace the sign up/login button in the search area block. (Visible to authenticated users etc.)
2. Using token's in the path for the Your Profile menu button (easier said than done of course).

Anyway, it'd be nice to get some feedback if anyone has a couple minutes as to which of these are worth pursuing. Also, I've run into a problem modifying php files. For some reason, the changes are not reflected on the site, and I'm sure it's not an issue with cache. I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually, but I just thought I'd ask in case anyone has experienced this before.

[tog22]

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On 10 July 2015 at 13:40, cdc482 [email protected] wrote:

I agree with your suggestion about using a drupal hook in template.php.
Definitely seems like the easiest solution. I am considering a couple other
options:

1. Adding a your profile/signout button to replace the sign up/login
   button in the search area block. (Visible to authenticated users etc.)
2. Using token's in the path for the Your Profile menu button (easier
   said than done of course).

Anyway, it'd be nice to get some feedback if anyone has a couple minutes
as to which of these are worth pursuing. Also, I've run into a problem
modifying php files. For some reason, the changes are not reflected on the
site, and I'm sure it's not an issue with cache. I'm sure I'll figure it
out eventually, but I just thought I'd ask in case anyone has experienced
this before.

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[tog22]

which php files have you changed chris?

On 11 July 2015 at 11:29, Tom Ash [email protected] wrote:

(Note for others: I helped Chris sort out the cache issue, you need
to click clear caches on
http://diffdocroot.effectivealtruismhub.com/admin/config/development/performance
when that happens.)

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On 10 July 2015 at 13:40, cdc482 [email protected] wrote:

I agree with your suggestion about using a drupal hook in template.php.
Definitely seems like the easiest solution. I am considering a couple other
options:

1. Adding a your profile/signout button to replace the sign up/login
   button in the search area block. (Visible to authenticated users etc.)
2. Using token's in the path for the Your Profile menu button (easier
   said than done of course).

Anyway, it'd be nice to get some feedback if anyone has a couple minutes
as to which of these are worth pursuing. Also, I've run into a problem
modifying php files. For some reason, the changes are not reflected on the
site, and I'm sure it's not an issue with cache. I'm sure I'll figure it
out eventually, but I just thought I'd ask in case anyone has experienced
this before.

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[tog22]

Option 1 is good thinking! That sounds so much quicker and easier that I'd
think it's worth doing for now and moving onto other priorities if you
agree. I imagine it should get just as many clicks and profile creations as
the old 'Your Profile' menu link would? Feel free to suggest tweaks to the
wording if you think it'd help with that.

On 11 July 2015 at 11:29, Tom Ash [email protected] wrote:

which php files have you changed chris?

On 11 July 2015 at 11:29, Tom Ash [email protected] wrote:

(Note for others: I helped Chris sort out the cache issue, you need
to click clear caches on
http://diffdocroot.effectivealtruismhub.com/admin/config/development/performance
when that happens.)

I receive a lot of email and limit my time spent on it, so may take a
while to see or reply to messages; I may be able to reply more quickly to
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line).

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On 10 July 2015 at 13:40, cdc482 [email protected] wrote:

I agree with your suggestion about using a drupal hook in template.php.
Definitely seems like the easiest solution. I am considering a couple other
options:

1. Adding a your profile/signout button to replace the sign up/login
   button in the search area block. (Visible to authenticated users etc.)
2. Using token's in the path for the Your Profile menu button
   (easier said than done of course).

Anyway, it'd be nice to get some feedback if anyone has a couple minutes
as to which of these are worth pursuing. Also, I've run into a problem
modifying php files. For some reason, the changes are not reflected on the
site, and I'm sure it's not an issue with cache. I'm sure I'll figure it
out eventually, but I just thought I'd ask in case anyone has experienced
this before.

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[cdc482]

Glad you like option 1. Makes sense to me as well. I'll add a sign out button to the your profile page, and work on this option for now.

[tog22]

👍

[tog22]

Looks good, just theme it to look exactly like 'LOG IN OR SIGN UP'. Nice initiative adding 'sign out', you'd need to make that link to /user/logout.

[tog22]

@haryshwaran may be interested in taking this on if you can't do so soon @cdc482 - he may ask you for pointers!

[tog22]

@haryshwaran just added 'LOG OUT'. All that's needed to complete this issue is now to add a link alongside it to 'YOUR PROFILE' which points to the user's unique URL (e.g. /user/1 or /user/tom-ash ) rather than /user. @cdc482 may be able to explain his progress on this - I think it involved using Drupal tokens. If not I'd recommend googling those @haryshwaran .

[haryshwaran]

For I have added a "MY PROFILE" button and linked it to /user so that there is something available right now for users to click on and view their profile. Will look into drupal tokens and resolve this.

[tog22]

Ah, that would absolutely be a good idea, but unfortunately we have reason not to want it (briefly, because it'll lead people to share the wrong URL for their EA Profiles in a new EA Forum feature coming up). We actually had a link to /user before but took it down for this reason. Thanks for what would otherwise have been a totally sensible initiative, but could you reverse it if you've put it on prod?

[haryshwaran]

Ah, I see.. Got it, removed it. Will see how to about it using drupal tokens

[haryshwaran]

Link added via custom module. To do ( low priority ) will be to make the links themeable with drupal themes.

[tog22]

@haryshwaran low priority, but can you make 'my profile' say 'your profile' and split LOG IN OR SIGN UP into 2 links, to /user/login & /user/register . your choice how to style this.

[haryshwaran]

We will be changing the theme very soon in any case, we could club the changes along with the theme change. Could we close this issue?

[tog22]

We may as well leave it open as we'd want it in whatever theme we use. 😄