I've just been asked to build a site which will list just over 5,000 movies. I currently have all the info in a Filemaker database.
What I'm trying to work out is how best to go about getting the data into Drupal.
Should I have each title as a node, or is there a much better way to achieve this?
Basically each movie will have the following info:
Title Director Country Year Genre Cast Synopsis Duration Awards
some may in the future include a movie poster image or selected pix from the film itself.
etc..
Each title will be linked to from a drop-down navigation menu which will offer results displayed by GENRE or STUDIO etc. Clicking on a director's or actor's name will bring a a list of search results too.
At this stage most of the titles can be displayed purely in a list format, although I should allow for the option of a full page view per title for the future.
I'm hoping someone out there could offer a little advice about the best way to set the site up.
Thanks,
Marc
Off the cuff, I'd say create a cck type with the fields you need. If you can get your data into a csv then you can use node import to bring it into your drupal db. Use views to generate your searches. I'm also a huge fan of faceted search for stuff like this.
Marc Morris wrote:
I've just been asked to build a site which will list just over 5,000 movies. I currently have all the info in a Filemaker database.
What I'm trying to work out is how best to go about getting the data into Drupal.
Should I have each title as a node, or is there a much better way to achieve this?
Basically each movie will have the following info:
Title Director Country Year Genre Cast Synopsis Duration Awards
some may in the future include a movie poster image or selected pix from the film itself.
etc..
Each title will be linked to from a drop-down navigation menu which will offer results displayed by GENRE or STUDIO etc. Clicking on a director's or actor's name will bring a a list of search results too.
At this stage most of the titles can be displayed purely in a list format, although I should allow for the option of a full page view per title for the future.
I'm hoping someone out there could offer a little advice about the best way to set the site up.
Thanks,
Marc
Thanks Chris - what do you mean by "faceted search"?
Marc
On 15 Dec 2008, at 18:34, Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Off the cuff, I'd say create a cck type with the fields you need. If you can get your data into a csv then you can use node import to bring it into your drupal db. Use views to generate your searches. I'm also a huge fan of faceted search for stuff like this.
Marc Morris wrote:
I've just been asked to build a site which will list just over 5,000 movies. I currently have all the info in a Filemaker database.
What I'm trying to work out is how best to go about getting the data into Drupal.
Should I have each title as a node, or is there a much better way to achieve this?
Basically each movie will have the following info:
Title Director Country Year Genre Cast Synopsis Duration Awards
some may in the future include a movie poster image or selected pix from the film itself.
etc..
Each title will be linked to from a drop-down navigation menu which will offer results displayed by GENRE or STUDIO etc. Clicking on a director's or actor's name will bring a a list of search results too.
At this stage most of the titles can be displayed purely in a list format, although I should allow for the option of a full page view per title for the future.
I'm hoping someone out there could offer a little advice about the best way to set the site up.
Thanks,
Marc
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It's an advanced search module. There are options to expose CCK fields, such as the ones you will be creating. Check it out at
http://drupal.org/project/faceted_search
Marc Morris wrote:
Thanks Chris - what do you mean by "faceted search"?
Marc
On 15 Dec 2008, at 18:34, Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Off the cuff, I'd say create a cck type with the fields you need. If you can get your data into a csv then you can use node import to bring it into your drupal db. Use views to generate your searches. I'm also a huge fan of faceted search for stuff like this.
Marc Morris wrote:
I've just been asked to build a site which will list just over 5,000 movies. I currently have all the info in a Filemaker database.
What I'm trying to work out is how best to go about getting the data into Drupal.
Should I have each title as a node, or is there a much better way to achieve this?
Basically each movie will have the following info:
Title Director Country Year Genre Cast Synopsis Duration Awards
some may in the future include a movie poster image or selected pix from the film itself.
etc..
Each title will be linked to from a drop-down navigation menu which will offer results displayed by GENRE or STUDIO etc. Clicking on a director's or actor's name will bring a a list of search results too.
At this stage most of the titles can be displayed purely in a list format, although I should allow for the option of a full page view per title for the future.
I'm hoping someone out there could offer a little advice about the best way to set the site up.
Thanks,
Marc
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