By garbagerubbish on

Hey there,

New to Drupal and CMS in general. Have to say I think that its pretty sweet. So I playing around with it. At the moment I'm trying to make the front page display the newest users instead of the various stories.

I'm thinking that I have to change something in page.tpl.php. As far as I can see I need to change $content. I'm thinking of creting a custom SQL statement that queries the database for the users. But will this generate various pages automatically as the default. For example first ten newest users will be on page 1 then the next ten on page 2 etc.

Thanks in advance for everyones help.

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VM commented

you could put the newest users block on the front page : )

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garbagerubbish commented

I must say that I didn't think of that. Unfortunately, it only displays the users in point form without any information about them (well at least that is what I observe from my current tests). Sorry about that, should have it my thoughts clearer. For example I would like to display users along with some information from custom fields.

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VM commented

in that case you may want to take a look at the views module which is extremely powerful.

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garbagerubbish commented

Will look into the module. Thanks for the help. So many modules, man is hard finding the right one. Oh well, no pain no gain.

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VM commented

because it is highly likely your next question will be , how the heck does views work ? : )

heres one example http://drupal.org/node/63230

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garbagerubbish commented

Can't seem to get it to work the way I want it to. From what I understand the views module are for customised look 'node lists'. I don't really want to look at the 'node lists', but look at the list of 'users' instead. Then display that out. Any other suggestions, or am I just missing something completely.

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garbagerubbish commented

Nvermind. I think I got a way to do it. Making use of front_page and using an php to query the database gives me a way to do it.
Thanks for all the help.