By haopei on

Hi everyone,

I have one content type on my website - it consists of only text. How do I create a single text input to allow users to create this content node? This is much like how twitter provides a textarea + submit button for twitter users. (Screenshot - http://d.pr/t6f6)

Thank you for any tips.

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Kirk’s picture

Kirk commented

If you're simply looking for a micro-blogging solution, using node might be a little bit of overkill. You can use a module like this http://drupal.org/project/facebook_status to do what you're looking for.

If you insist on using nodes, something like this will let you put the node form into a block http://drupal.org/project/formblock

In order to get it to look like Twitter, you would want to disable everything except the node title. You will probably have to write a small module to modify the form to meet your exact specifications though, but at least this is a start.

haopei’s picture

haopei commented

EDIT: I've found the Automatic Notetitles module. Let's see if this fixes the problem i described below :)

hey Kirk,

Thanks for your suggestion.

I am actually not looking for a micro-blogging solution. I am considering building a FMylife.com type website (if you click on "Submit your FML", you will notice that a form appears).

You brought up an interesting problem I may encounter. These 'fml entries' are title-less, while titles fields in nodes are mandatory. Do you know if it is possible to by-pass the node title field?

Or rather, do you have an idea of an alternate solution?

adamgerthel’s picture

adamgerthel commented

I just stumbled across this post looking for something else, but in case you haven't already figured it out, Automatic node titles allows you to hide the title field, so you can have an automatic title (and you don't have to ever show the title to the users)

anotherspaceman’s picture

anotherspaceman commented

Thanks Adam!

Just the module I needed, couldn't not say thank you for mentioning it here :)