To use the core profile module, click on the Administer | Site building | Modules link, or navigate to admin/build/modules
. In the Core – optional section, enable the Profile module. Click the Save configuration button to submit the form and savethe settings.
Once the Profile module has been enabled, you can see a user's profile information by navigating to http://example.com/user/UID, where UID is the user's ID number on the site. To see your own user profile, navigate to http://example.com/user when logged in, or click the My Account link.
The default user profile page exposes some useful functionality. First, it shows the user's profile, and secondly, it provides the Edit tab that allows a user to edit their profile. The Edit tab will only be visible to the owner of the profile, or to administrative users with elevated permissions.
Other modules can add tabs to the core Profile page. As shown in the preceding screenshot by Item 1, the core Tracker module adds...