I want to allow businesses to create listings on my site. We have a set of custom questions and also categories. I then want to display the listings by category. We of course will need to approve of them before they are published.
I see the Simple classified ads module (http://drupal.org/project/ed_classified). Can this do what I need? Any tips on how to custom the fields there?
Thanks, Fred
Quoting Fred Jones fredthejonester@gmail.com:
I want to allow businesses to create listings on my site. We have a set of custom questions and also categories. I then want to display the listings by category. We of course will need to approve of them before they are published.
I see the Simple classified ads module (http://drupal.org/project/ed_classified). Can this do what I need? Any tips on how to custom the fields there?
I recently had a look at this on a test site. It has the category controls you want but I don't know that it has the submission controls you want. You probably want to explore CCK and Views. These two are stated to give you the most flexibility with custom forming. I have yet to wrap my hands and head around them.
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
I Agree with Earnie, cck + views would be the way to go with this, using taxonomy to categorize. This way you are building in a way that has the brightest upgrade future, as things look now -- CCK and views are going to become only more integrated with core as we move forward.
Laura
On Aug 24, 2007, at 5:49 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
Quoting Fred Jones fredthejonester@gmail.com:
I want to allow businesses to create listings on my site. We have a set of custom questions and also categories. I then want to display the listings by category. We of course will need to approve of them before they are published.
I see the Simple classified ads module (http://drupal.org/project/ed_classified). Can this do what I need? Any tips on how to custom the fields there?
I recently had a look at this on a test site. It has the category controls you want but I don't know that it has the submission controls you want. You probably want to explore CCK and Views. These two are stated to give you the most flexibility with custom forming. I have yet to wrap my hands and head around them.
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
-- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
[ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
Is there a good tutorial for that? I have yet to find something that clearly gives a step-by-step of how to use Views. Maybe I am looking in the wrong places :(
/ liza
Liza Sabater, Publisher www.culturekitchen.com www.dailygotham.com
On 24.Aug.2007, at 10:23, Laura Scott wrote:
I Agree with Earnie, cck + views would be the way to go with this, using taxonomy to categorize. This way you are building in a way that has the brightest upgrade future, as things look now -- CCK and views are going to become only more integrated with core as we move forward.
Laura
On Aug 24, 2007, at 5:49 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
Quoting Fred Jones fredthejonester@gmail.com:
I want to allow businesses to create listings on my site. We have a set of custom questions and also categories. I then want to display the listings by category. We of course will need to approve of them before they are published.
I see the Simple classified ads module (http://drupal.org/project/ed_classified). Can this do what I need? Any tips on how to custom the fields there?
I recently had a look at this on a test site. It has the category controls you want but I don't know that it has the submission controls you want. You probably want to explore CCK and Views. These two are stated to give you the most flexibility with custom forming. I have yet to wrap my hands and head around them.
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
-- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
[ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
-- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
On Friday 24 August 2007 07:27:34 blogdiva@culturekitchen.com wrote:
Is there a good tutorial for that? I have yet to find something that clearly gives a step-by-step of how to use Views. Maybe I am looking in the wrong places :(
Have you seen the documentation pages: http://drupal.org/node/109604
and especially the tutorials from there?: http://drupal.org/node/59157
One nice thing about views is that you can experiment -- create a view visible only to admins, and try out the settings. A lot of modules play nice with views now, so you have a lot of power creating custom pages. I think it's one of the great things about the 5.2 paradigm.
Views in 4.7 is nice, too, but since CCK works on a different footing there, it is perhaps less intuitive.
Laura
On Aug 24, 2007, at 8:27 AM, blogdiva@culturekitchen.com wrote:
Is there a good tutorial for that? I have yet to find something that clearly gives a step-by-step of how to use Views. Maybe I am looking in the wrong places :(
/ liza
Liza Sabater, Publisher www.culturekitchen.com www.dailygotham.com
On 24.Aug.2007, at 10:23, Laura Scott wrote:
I Agree with Earnie, cck + views would be the way to go with this, using taxonomy to categorize. This way you are building in a way that has the brightest upgrade future, as things look now -- CCK and views are going to become only more integrated with core as we move forward.
Laura
On Aug 24, 2007, at 5:49 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
Quoting Fred Jones fredthejonester@gmail.com:
I want to allow businesses to create listings on my site. We have a set of custom questions and also categories. I then want to display the listings by category. We of course will need to approve of them before they are published.
I see the Simple classified ads module (http://drupal.org/project/ed_classified). Can this do what I need? Any tips on how to custom the fields there?
I recently had a look at this on a test site. It has the category controls you want but I don't know that it has the submission controls you want. You probably want to explore CCK and Views. These two are stated to give you the most flexibility with custom forming. I have yet to wrap my hands and head around them.
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
-- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
[ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
-- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
-- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
Laura Scott wrote:
One nice thing about views is that you can experiment -- create a view visible only to admins, and try out the settings. A lot of modules play nice with views now, so you have a lot of power creating custom pages. I think it's one of the great things about the 5.2 paradigm.
Views in 4.7 is nice, too, but since CCK works on a different footing there, it is perhaps less intuitive.
Thank you SO much to everyone who wrote about this. I am looking into how to use CCK now.
Fred
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