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Modules displayed based on user preference

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Modules displayed based on user preference

I'm wondering if MetaMod has the ability to allow logged in users to somehow select which modules they are interested and have those modules automatically appear on that user's homepage whenever they log in? Something like myYahoo?

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Re: Modules displayed based on user preference

Start with the Quick Start guide:

http://www.metamodpro.com/metamod/quick-start

Then you can use the following rule to check for username:

if ($user->username == "joe") return XXX;
if ($user->username == "bob") return YYY;
if ($user->username == "ann" or $user->username == "brenda") return ZZZ;

... replace XXX etc with the module numbers that you want to use for that user.

Hope that helps,

Indrajit

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Re: Modules displayed based on user preference

Hi mfarineau,

the trickiest part is giving people the preference for what modules they want. Once you have that in the system, then MetaMod can retrieve this info from the database and use it to determine which modules to display.

There are a number of components that extend the info that is stored in people's profiles. e.g. CommunityBuilder and VIrtueMart. I know there are others too.

So basically what would do would be to set up extra parameters in the profiles, so that people can use these parameters to choose some different modules. They would do this by editing their profile. Then set up MetaMod to read their profiles. There's a Recipe page for CommunityBuilder on this site which shows you how to get info out of a profile, so that would be a good start.

Cheers,
Stephen

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