Unified content_profile and user page

When you install content_profile, out of the box you have two user profile pages: (1) the drupal core user page (/user/%), and (2) the content-profile node pages (node/%).  These pages don't provide exactly the same information (there's some overlap), which ends up confusing users when they're viewing user profiles.

If you want to conslidate these two views, here are the steps I've taken (if you have a different setup, please enlighten us!).

You'll also need the following modules: ctools (also enable page_manager), panels, content_profile

1. Display full content-profile on user page

This will mix all content-profile data in with user-profile data on at /user/% .

2. Display everything on a panel

You'll need Panels of course.  

• Enable panels and page_manager
• Go to /admin/build/pages and enable the user_view panel
• Add a variant with the context option checked

• Add the Profile Node context (similar to a "views relationship", this will give you content-profile information while you're visiting /user/%)

• Add the following content (see screenshot):
  
  Title Type: Manually set
  
  Title: %content_profile:title (you'll likely want auto_nodetitle setup so your node title looks like Firstname Lastname)
  
  Content: User profile ("User being viewed)

3. Redirect content-profile nodes to /user/%

Now your user pages have all of the information, but your node content-profile pages only have some.  Let's redirect any pages that are content-profile nodes to /user/% instead.  The reason we're keeping user pages and nixing node pages is that /user/% has all the tabs (like Contact and Track) and fieldsets (like Purchase History), and we want to keep those.

Create a custom module and add the following snippet:

function {YOURMODULE}_init(){ $node = menu_get_object(); if($node && $node->type == 'profile'){ drupal_goto("user/{$node->uid}"); } }