By crankyhippo on

Hello,

I have been searching for a while how to let my users easily and quickly link to other users in a post. something like @SomeUser would be ideal so user 1 can enter @SomeUser in a node and the input format would, on display, replace @SomeUser with a link to that users page (www.mysite.com/user/SomeUser). does anything like this exist? hopefully a D6 version exists, but D7 would also work as i can probably backport it if needed.

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yelvington’s picture

yelvington commented

You should be able to do that with https://www.drupal.org/project/customfilter

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crankyhippo commented

Thank you. I will check it out.

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poornachandran commented

Hi Cranky,

I dont know about the modules for this.I will tell you about the custom method.Just check whether this is usefull else kindly ignore.You have to checkout the OnkeyUp event in javascript for that particular field.There you have to check if any text is typed after @.You have to make an AJAX call and check whether any user exists on that name.If so just show the relevant users in a pop up,so that they can select the particular names.If they select a particular name just changed the typed text with the user name link to the user page.

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crankyhippo commented

Thanks for the feedback. I like the idea but that is outside what i am currently capable of doing. However, if i find or create such a module, i will follow up here.