Hi all,
Pulling my hair out here :(
What I want to do:
I am looking for a way to change the all the user ids in all urls/paths to something else. Ideally it would be the user's username, but I would be content with just getting rid of the user id in paths alltogether.
Why:
I think by showing the user id to the user I am giving valuable private info about how many users there are ro might be.
What I have tried:
1) I installed Pathauto and thought that by just creating a pattern for user account page paths like so [user:name], it would solve my problem, and magically all the user IDs would change into the username.
For example, I have the normal user tabs in my user/account page:
View|Edit|Orders
And then I have added one more tab via a view - Purchased Files
So my user section looks like this:
View|Edit|Orders|Purchased Files
and the corresponding URLs are: user, user/3/edit, user/3/orders, user/3/files
So I thought that Pathouto would change these paths to: user, user/tommy/edit, user/tommy/orders, user/tommy/files
I thought it would just work, but I have found the following:
-The URL links from my tabs are still the old ones with the path user/3/orders for example
-If I try to navigate to user/tommy/edit for example I get the 'unauthorised' message, this is the same for all of them EXCEPT for user/tommy/files (the tab I created with views), which works at that URL, BUT the user tabs dissappear :|
2) Another problem now is that even If I uninstall Pathauto and clear my cache, this alias still exist at user/tommy/files - that seems very strange :|
3) I have tried so many other modules, Subpathauto, Me alias - but nothing seems to work.
SO NOW THE QUESTION IS:
Is there any way I can get rid of the User ID in my URLs with this module, AND have my site work as before and all links work and updated automatically?
Thanks alot, I love this module and use it quite a lot, I just can't seem to get it to play nice with the user id replacement.
Thanks!