How to display user submitted nodes in the node detail view of the same user?

Question

I'm aware of such modules as Relation and Entity reference but I can't figure out how I make automatic relation between nodes that depend on the user that submitted those nodes.

Site has users A, B, C ... Let's say user A submits 10 nodes. When any user clicks on any of his nodes you can see his other 9 submitted nodes in the detailed view. When you click on node submitted by user B you can see his other submitted nodes and so on. This should work automatically without manually building relations between nodes.

How do I achieve this?

Thanks a lot Ray

Answer 1

I tried the following and it seems to work:

1. Create a new block view
2. Add a Contextual filter of type Content: Nid
3. Add a relationship of type Content: Author (Required)
4. Add a relationship of type User: Content authored that uses the previous relationship and is required
5. Under Format you set Show: Content | Full Content - You must also use the User: Content authored relationship for this one

You could also change the number of related nodes that will be shown and also you might wan't to add a filter of Content: Type to restrict what kind of nodes to display. Notice that you could create a template for a specific content-type ie node--<YOUR_CONTENT_TYPE>.tpl and load and execute the view from there.

In you node.tpl file you would load this view doing something similar to:

$view = views_get_view('YOUR_VIEW_NAME');
$view->set_display('YOUR_VIEW_BLOCK_NAME');
$view->set_arguments(array($node->nid));
$view->execute();
echo $view->render();

Note I think you should specify every field you wan't to use, in other words you shouldn't use Show: Content | Full Content - because this will result in an infinite loop. I don't think this is a complete solution, but perhaps it will point you in the right direction.

If you are using fields in the view you could create a separate template named views-view-fields--YOUR_VIEW_NAME--YOUR_VIEW_BLOCK_NAME.tpl that will be used to output the actual fields.

To exclude the current node from the listing you need to modify your contextual filter.

• Click the More button for Content: Nid and choose exclude you should also make this filter use your relationship for Content: Authored