[support] Business Listings

blogdiva at culturekitchen.com blogdiva at culturekitchen.com
Fri Aug 24 14:27:34 UTC 2007


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 at 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/
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