Comments on: Drupal Tutorial: Adding a ‘Related Posts By This Author’ Block With Views

By: Funana

Funana — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:51:51 +0000

Thank you for the tutorial!
If you don’t want to show the actual page in the block too and you set the block to show x entries, then you can also just set the offset to 1.

By: AJ

AJ — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:31:37 +0000

Thanks for that tidbit! Works awesome!

By: AmirHossein

AmirHossein — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:03:45 +0000

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:23:04 +0000

In d7 – the above comments didn’t work for me… im using jcarousol too.

By: joseph

joseph — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 06:27:01 +0000

Note to the users above and to anyone interested in applying this tutorial to views in drupal 7.

1. you must require the following relationship first: content:author.

2. only then does the contextual filter of user:uid become available.

3. then afterwards select the radio for: provide default argument, the select list for user id from url and the checkbox for, Also look for a node and use the node author.

4. Apply and save, and you should find your view works all nice and dandy now.

By: Ashlee

Ashlee — Fri, 20 May 2011 06:33:49 +0000

This article helped me sooooo much! Especially since I’m new to Drupal. Thank you!

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Drupal 7: Creating an Author Info Block / Author Bio Block | GESWEB BLOG — Thu, 19 May 2011 12:51:05 +0000

[...] page is a node, and if so, grabs the user id of the nodes author and returns it. Many thanks to Chris Free of Chromatic for [...]

By: Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:23:44 +0000

Hi,
All I did was just creating a contextual filter User:Uid instead of adding PHP arguments. Then I selected “Provide default value” radio button, and selected “User ID from URL” as type of the value and checked option “Also look for a node and use the node author”.

Here is the screenshot of the filter config:
http://i.imgur.com/x8HTW.jpg

I hope it is relevant to your problem

By: steve

steve — Tue, 17 May 2011 17:04:41 +0000

hey,

came across your post as I am trying to accomplish a similar task in drupal 7 – I tried applying the drupal 6 arguments php, it works in views pane when I put in the uid in filter but not on the block in the site.

I am trying to list the articles written by a user on the user’s page, I couldn’t find the two options you referred to – (uid from url)

Do you think you can add a bit more detail, i would really appreciate it, maybe i am missing something simple

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:35:30 +0000

Glad you got it, Lucas! Thanks for the info on the D7 workaround.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:33 +0000

Sorted now, it turned out that in D7 it is possible achieve the same result without writing PHP arguments, I just have to choose User ID from URL as a default value and check “Also look for a node and use the node author” option.
Thank you for the tut, helped me a lot!

By: Lucas

Lucas — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:14:21 +0000

Very helpful tutorial, I’m glad that I found it after couple days of head-desk banging, as this is exactly what I was looking for!
As I am using Drupal 7 I was initially slightly confused, as Arguments were renamed to Contextual Filters.
Everything seems to work, but I am encountering notice message on any screen where the given view is excluded, not sure why… (I tested this method on clean drupal installation).

The message is:
Undefined variable: uid in eval() (line 5 of [...]\sites\all\modules\views\plugins\views_plugin_argument_default_php.inc(49) : eval()’d code).

Any Ideas?

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:45:40 +0000

Thanks for this. Simply a great tutorial — easy to follow, well written and actually works. And along the way, I learned something new about how to use Views. Arguments always confused me, now I see how valuable they can be.

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:31:32 +0000

Hi,

I have had no problem with following this tutorial and getting it running in an older version of Drupal, I have upgraded to the latest release on another server and have run in to problems.

Now I find when I run the querie – the following code is returned (with no results). I was using node 822 to view related posts from user/13

SELECT node.nid AS nid, node.title AS node_title FROM node node INNER JOIN users users ON node.uid = users.uid WHERE (node.status 0) AND (users.uid = 822)

It looks to me that (users.uid = 822) should be returning as user (users.uid = 13)

Has anyone had a similar problem? Or am I missing something fundemental?

thanks

Luke

By: Jakaria

Jakaria — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:08:54 +0000

Thanks sir,
for your great tutorial. I am try to do this some days but I couldn’t. Now I do it successfully.

By using your tips, I am also try to do related comments by this author. It’s working fine, but problem is when I select “(Node) Comment: Body from fields” there have no option to link to comment.

But when I select “Comment: Title Title” where have option “Link this field to its comment” Please tell me how I can “Link this field to its comment” in (Node) Comment: Body.

Another thing If anyone can help me, how can I show posted comments in this blog by all user in drupal. Give me some idea, I will try to do it myself.

Note: I’m not a programmer. I new in Drupal & try to buildup multi blog in drupal.

Thanks