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
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@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Neil: esl-lounge.com Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:27 AM To: support@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
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@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@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Neil: esl-lounge.com Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:27 AM To: support@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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Check out views arguments. With this you could have a cities view that lists all the cities out, and cities/dallas to show dallas tx with it's own header and listings etc, or a lot of things like that. Also take a look at some of the other views modules, like the views bonus pack.
.sander
Neil: esl-lounge.com wrote:
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 <mailto:metzlerd@evergreen.edu> *To:* support@drupal.org <mailto:support@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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] *On Behalf Of *Neil: esl-lounge.com *Sent:* Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:27 AM *To:* support@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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
Sander,
Thanks. I have a couple of questions relating to your idea:
1. would your solution allow for each city's InfoBox as shown in my page mockup image? How would this info be entered? As this info would be unique to each city, I thought the only way of doing it would be to have the city page itself as a content type (or "group", which is a content type anyway, I suppose) and use CCK fields to get that info into each city's page. How would Views allow me to do it?
2. How would I have a tight policy of tags across the different content types to ensure all dallas content did indeed end up in the right View? Would I have to set up a "Location" vocabulary (with 100,000 potential terms??) and not allow free tagging or multiple tagging. I'm just trying to get my head around a few of the more mundane queries running through my head.
Finally, would you not suggest doing this via OG as I mentioned in an earlier mail?
Neil
----- Original Message ----- From: "sander-martijn" lists@severeddreams.com To: support@drupal.org Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 9:14 PM Subject: Re: [support] Is this achievable using drupal alone?
Check out views arguments. With this you could have a cities view that lists all the cities out, and cities/dallas to show dallas tx with it's own header and listings etc, or a lot of things like that. Also take a look at some of the other views modules, like the views bonus pack.
.sander
Neil: esl-lounge.com wrote:
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 <mailto:metzlerd@evergreen.edu> *To:* support@drupal.org <mailto:support@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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] *On Behalf Of *Neil:esl-lounge.com *Sent:* Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:27 AM *To:* support@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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
With the method I outlined, each city, is a node, of whatever content type you set up for cities. You can configure your fields however you want. One benefit of doing it this way, is that then city nodes can be indexed by search, (even though the views content inside of them will not be indexed) so that when someone searches for 'Dallas' the node for Dallas is in the search results instead of only other posts tagged with Dallas.
As far as vocab control.... I am not sure what the best method is here, if you want users to be able to create them, and limit them at the same time. You could set it up with a fixed vocabulary, or maybe even as a multiple value node reference field for tagging other posts. If you go that route, just point the node reference to only return nodes of the content type for cities that you create. Other than that I would say, maybe disallow free tagging, and allow multiple selects, and programatically create the terms when each new city page is created.
Not sure if that fits with your workflow or not. I suppose you could even go the opposite way and create nodes programmatically based on the creation of new terms in your chosen vocab.
I don't know that Organic Groups is or isn't the right solution for you, generally I tend to lean towards organic groups for things like access control for groups of people or anything that manages subsets of membership. If neither of those is an issue for you, I'd still say you could use it, but it isn't the first tool I'd reach for if doing the type of project you're working on.
-Mike
On Mar 15, 2008, at 3:40 PM, Neil: esl-lounge.com wrote:
Sander,
Thanks. I have a couple of questions relating to your idea:
- would your solution allow for each city's InfoBox as shown in my
page mockup image? How would this info be entered? As this info would be unique to each city, I thought the only way of doing it would be to have the city page itself as a content type (or "group", which is a content type anyway, I suppose) and use CCK fields to get that info into each city's page. How would Views allow me to do it?
- How would I have a tight policy of tags across the different
content types to ensure all dallas content did indeed end up in the right View? Would I have to set up a "Location" vocabulary (with 100,000 potential terms??) and not allow free tagging or multiple tagging. I'm just trying to get my head around a few of the more mundane queries running through my head.
Finally, would you not suggest doing this via OG as I mentioned in an earlier mail?
Neil
----- Original Message ----- From: "sander-martijn" lists@severeddreams.com To: support@drupal.org Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 9:14 PM Subject: Re: [support] Is this achievable using drupal alone?
Check out views arguments. With this you could have a cities view that lists all the cities out, and cities/dallas to show dallas tx with it's own header and listings etc, or a lot of things like that. Also take a look at some of the other views modules, like the views bonus pack.
.sander
Neil: esl-lounge.com wrote:
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 mailto:metzlerd@evergreen.edu *To:* support@drupal.org mailto:support@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
*From:* support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] *On Behalf Of *Neil: esl-lounge.com *Sent:* Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:27 AM *To:* support@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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I just wanted to say, I hadn't ignored your response Michael - just that it's one level above my current understanding of Drupal, so it was my intention to look through your original post again in the next day or so and possibly set up an example few pages to see it in operation.
Just to clarify, the first thing I'd have to do is set up a "City Name" vocabulary and tag a few nodes (video, image, blog entry) with "Dallas" and then begin to set up the views as you explained?
Neil
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Prasuhn" mike@mikeyp.net To: support@drupal.org Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 3:01 AM Subject: Re: [support] Is this achievable using drupal alone?
With the method I outlined, each city, is a node, of whatever content type you set up for cities. You can configure your fields however you want. One benefit of doing it this way, is that then city nodes can be indexed by search, (even though the views content inside of them will not be indexed) so that when someone searches for 'Dallas' the node for Dallas is in the search results instead of only other posts tagged with Dallas.
As far as vocab control.... I am not sure what the best method is here, if you want users to be able to create them, and limit them at the same time. You could set it up with a fixed vocabulary, or maybe even as a multiple value node reference field for tagging other posts. If you go that route, just point the node reference to only return nodes of the content type for cities that you create. Other than that I would say, maybe disallow free tagging, and allow multiple selects, and programatically create the terms when each new city page is created.
Not sure if that fits with your workflow or not. I suppose you could even go the opposite way and create nodes programmatically based on the creation of new terms in your chosen vocab.
I don't know that Organic Groups is or isn't the right solution for you, generally I tend to lean towards organic groups for things like access control for groups of people or anything that manages subsets of membership. If neither of those is an issue for you, I'd still say you could use it, but it isn't the first tool I'd reach for if doing the type of project you're working on.
-Mike
On Mar 15, 2008, at 3:40 PM, Neil: esl-lounge.com wrote:
Sander,
Thanks. I have a couple of questions relating to your idea:
- would your solution allow for each city's InfoBox as shown in my
page mockup image? How would this info be entered? As this info would be unique to each city, I thought the only way of doing it would be to have the city page itself as a content type (or "group", which is a content type anyway, I suppose) and use CCK fields to get that info into each city's page. How would Views allow me to do it?
- How would I have a tight policy of tags across the different
content types to ensure all dallas content did indeed end up in the right View? Would I have to set up a "Location" vocabulary (with 100,000 potential terms??) and not allow free tagging or multiple tagging. I'm just trying to get my head around a few of the more mundane queries running through my head.
Finally, would you not suggest doing this via OG as I mentioned in an earlier mail?
Neil
----- Original Message ----- From: "sander-martijn" lists@severeddreams.com To: support@drupal.org Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 9:14 PM Subject: Re: [support] Is this achievable using drupal alone?
Check out views arguments. With this you could have a cities view that lists all the cities out, and cities/dallas to show dallas tx with it's own header and listings etc, or a lot of things like that. Also take a look at some of the other views modules, like the views bonus pack.
.sander
Neil: esl-lounge.com wrote:
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 mailto:metzlerd@evergreen.edu *To:* support@drupal.org mailto:support@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
*From:* support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] *On Behalf Of *Neil: esl-lounge.com *Sent:* Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:27 AM *To:* support@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 $arg help me there??
Is there anything that already exists on drupal that can help me towards a solution? I've already thought about book pages, forum pages, groups for each city and a few other possibilities besides, but nothing seems to fit. There could well be some useful modules out there I am unaware of.
Thanks in advance for any guidance you can offer.
Neil
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What I typically do when presented with this type of project, with multiple views per page, is to embed the views via the theme layer, and pass the selected argument, such as the node title into the view as an argument. Here's a semi-detailed break down:
Create a view that filters for images based on node type, published and then an argument as city name. (do the same for blogs, writings, and any other separate views you want on the page)
In your theme, in template.php, in phptemplate_variable, under the page, or node switch, add something along these lines:
if ($vars['node']->type == 'citypage') { $view = views_get_view('images_by_city'); $vars['embeded_images_view'] = views_build_view('embed', $view, array($vars['node']->title), false, false); }
Repeat as necessary for each view that you want on the page.
Then, in your page.tpl.php or node.tpl.php (depending on which switch you but the above code under) you can add the following to your tempalte:
<?php if ($embeded_images_view): ?> <div id="embeded-images-view"> <?php print $embeded_images_view; ?> </div> <!-- embeded-images-view --> <?php endif; ?>
And repeat as necessary for each view that you want to embed.
A little code in a helper module that implements hook_nodeapi could handle creating a term for each new node of this type that is made. This can be a very elegant solution, although it can produce some odd results with node edit pages if you embed the view in the page template.
Hope this helps out.
-Mike
On Mar 15, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Neil: esl-lounge.com wrote:
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
__________________ Michael Prasuhn mike@mikeyp.net http://mikeyp.net 949.200.7595 714.356.0168 cell 949.200.7670 fax
What I typically do when presented with this type of project, with multiple views per page, is to embed the views via the theme layer, and pass the selected argument, such as the node title into the view as an argument. Here's a semi-detailed break down:
Create a view that filters for images based on node type, published and then an argument as city name. (do the same for blogs, writings, and any other separate views you want on the page)
In your theme, in template.php, in phptemplate_variable, under the page, or node switch, add something along these lines:
if ($vars['node']->type == 'citypage') { $view = views_get_view('images_by_city'); $vars['embeded_images_view'] = views_build_view('embed', $view, array($vars['node']->title), false, false); }
Repeat as necessary for each view that you want on the page.
Then, in your page.tpl.php or node.tpl.php (depending on which switch you but the above code under) you can add the following to your tempalte:
<?php if ($embeded_images_view): ?> <div id="embeded-images-view"> <?php print $embeded_images_view; ?> </div> <!-- embeded-images-view --> <?php endif; ?>
And repeat as necessary for each view that you want to embed.
A little code in a helper module that implements hook_nodeapi could handle creating a term for each new node of this type that is made. This can be a very elegant solution, although it can produce some odd results with node edit pages if you embed the view in the page template.
Hope this helps out.
-Mike
On Mar 15, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Neil: esl-lounge.com wrote:
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
__________________ Michael Prasuhn mike@mikeyp.net http://mikeyp.net 949.200.7595 714.356.0168 cell 949.200.7670 fax
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Neil: esl-lounge.com neil@esl-lounge.com wrote:
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.
I'd probably start by looking at Node-Auto-Term http://drupal.org/project/nat, or something like it, which can make a taxonomy term from a node. It sounds like what you're after is nodes tagged by city, but, the user can create the city on the fly. I don't think NAT's the final solution, but it might be something to start with. You'd have to hook/modify it, for example, to make sure the TaxoTerm didn't exist already when the second person comes in with a Dallas node.
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