[support] Theming help

[Chris McCreery]

Thanks for the tips Jim I'm still gonna give it a shot themeing the taxonomy
but if that fails then I'll definitely go with the cck and autocomplete.

Thanks again.

On 9/15/07, Jim Smith <jsmith at wate.com> wrote:
>
>  I understand a little better what you want to do. Having coaches fill out
> the fields accurately is a challenge.
>
> Maybe someone will correct me on this, but I think you're better off
> sticking with CCK fields, rather than taxonomy.
>
> If you want to offer convenience to the person filling out the node
> fields, then check out Textfield Autocomplete Module. I haven't tried it,
> because I think it was only recently released, but it looks like it will do
> what you want to do.
>
> http://drupal.org/project/textfield_autocomplete
>
> So if this is a sports team site, you might be interested in checking out
> the sports site I built recently. It doesn't have individual player
> information, but it involves a lot of teams. I haven't built out the content
> as completely as I intend, but it may give you some ideas.
>
> http://fnh.wate.com
>
>
>
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> *From:* support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Chris McCreery
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 15, 2007 12:10 AM
> *To:* support at drupal.org
> *Subject:* Re: [support] Theming help
>
> Thanks for the response Jim. Like I said I'm new, but I most of the
> information that will get entered will be the same so figured it might as
> well go in to taxonomy so that the coaches can easily see how many players
> on their team shoot left handed or weigh 150lbs. I can see all the terms
> printed out on the bottom of the node and want exactly the same just
> formatted to show the vocab name but not necessarily from the db i will
> probably hard code those.
>
> <p>
> Hometown: term name<br />
> Favourite Movie: term name<br />
> </p>
>
> Is this way to complicated to do? Should I have just created fields for
> the template instead? I just wanted to use freetagging so that the common
> data will pop up as they start to type new entries and hopefully eliminate
> spelling errors.
>
> What do you think?
>
> On 9/14/07, Jim Smith <jsmith at wate.com> wrote:
> >
> >  The first question I have to ask (unless I misunderstand what you're
> > saying) is why are you using taxonomy terms for the fields of each item in
> > your node type? That seems like a good way to complicate your theming.
> >
> >  ------------------------------
> > *From:* support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] *On
> > Behalf Of *Chris McCreery
> > *Sent:* Friday, September 14, 2007 11:44 PM
> > *To:* support at drupal.org
> > *Subject:* [support] Theming help
> >
> >  Hi I am trying to theme a new content type with contemplate but having
> > some issues with adding taxonomy terms.
> >
> > I have a bio for some players with:
> > Number
> > Height
> > Weight
> > Hometown
> >
> > I created a vocabulary for each of these items and then set them to free
> > tagging to enter the terms.
> >
> > Now I would like to output the term of each vocabulary next to the
> > vocabulary name eg (Hometown: Term Name) but I'm a newbie to php and even
> > more of a newb to drupal development. Any help would be great.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
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> > Chris McCreery
> >
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