[support] Is this achievable using drupal alone?

Sat Mar 15 19:45:04 UTC 2008

Thanks for the responses so far...this has certainly kept my brain busy for the last couple of days and there are still a lot of uncertainties in my mind. I'm not sure I understand how I would use Views to present each "page" for each city with the tagged entries underneath. As I understand Views, I could present a list (table, full nodes or teasers) with, for example, all content tagged with "Dallas, TX", but how would I alter what comes at the top of each page (using, presumably the page/header text box)? I would ideally like to present some type of Info box at the top of each city's page (founded, population, long/lat, country/state, etc). I wouldn't be able to do this with views, would I? This is also why I was toying with the idea of just having a group for each city.

Using CCK, I could have member enter all the Info Box fields when they create each new one. Then, using my exisiting node-group.tpl.php, the group page could be laid out with the info box at the top of the page, the mission statement, etc, to one side and all the relevant content (forum posts, blog entries, images, pagers, etc) showing below. So I might have something like this:

http://i29.tinypic.com/9bazyf.png

Does this sound workable? What problems are there in having potentially 10,000 groups? Or 100,000? How would I get them all to link together (as the [category:Texas] function would allow me to do in MediaWiki, for example.)? Is there any way I could use a special CCK field to introduce the idea of hierarchy (United States >> Texas >> Dallas >> Plano) into the group content type? Or would I need to get busy with a Location taxonomy and tag each new group as it's created??

Again, I really appreciate any input on this from anyone, if only to point me in the right direction.

Neil

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Metzler, David 
  To: support at drupal.org 
  Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:42 PM
  Subject: Re: [support] Is this achievable using drupal alone?

  If it were mine, I'd make the cities be required taxonomy terms for the content type.  Then people create individual entries and tag them as Dallas, Texas or Clairborne or whatever.  Use views with a term as an argument to pull lists of content for a city.  People can comment or make their own entries for the city. 

  Dave 

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  From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Neil: esl-lounge.com
  Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:27 AM
  To: support at drupal.org
  Subject: [support] Is this achievable using drupal alone?

  I have quite a specific content-type requirement for my site and have been pulling my hair out thinking about how I could achieve it with drupal - so I turn to this support list, if not for a solution, then for at least a pointer or two to push me nearer an answer.

  I have a site where I want members to be able to enter information about hundreds or even thousands of cities. It's not relevant exactly what type of information they are writing.

  For example, a member creates a new X content type (this is the big question) and puts the title Dallas, Texas and writes a paragraph or two about it. Other members can rate that entry or attach comments to it...or, very importantly, add their own entry, which would have equal weight to the first entry. Ultimately, tags could be attached to each entry to allow some type of sorting.

  Look here at a screenshot mock-up I've made to give some idea of what I'm talking about.

  http://i31.tinypic.com/2lo0qkw.png

  The original idea called for a wiki where each city would be a wiki page, but we're now veering more towards having seperate entries (not editable by other users) by each member, to which comments can be added. So these are almost nodes within nodes. We considered some type of views/og solution but is it feasible to have 10,000 views or groups? Would views allow me to gather together, dynamically, all "entries" on "Dallas, Texas" and seamlessly switch (using an auto-complete text box perhaps) to Houston, Texas or to any of 10,000 other towns? Would $arg help me there??

  Is there anything that already exists on drupal that can help me towards a solution? I've already thought about book pages, forum pages, groups for each city and a few other possibilities besides, but nothing seems to fit. There could well be some useful modules out there I am unaware of.

  Thanks in advance for any guidance you can offer.

  Neil

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