By Keeper54 on
My buddy wrote a club directory site in Joomla which I hate for a number of reasons, so he agreed to let me re-write the site in Drupal. I'm having trouble finding a combination of modules that will let me emulate the functionality of the directory and directory search.
Directory example can be found at
http://life.mn/index.php?option=com_sobi2&Itemid=29
Directory search can be found at http://life.mn/index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=search&Itemid=33
Any help is greatly appreciated in figuring this out.
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Views Module?
The views module does a great number of things... maybe a combination of views and other modules?
Taxonomy thru and thru
The first url you gave above seems like a list of categories, so that'd be something you'd do with taxonomy urls in Drupal. If the categories on your friend's website are pretty much set you could just write the page out by hand... ie. an unordered list of links like website/taxonomy/term/1 where 1=Nightclubs and so on. If the list of categories are constantly growing, then you could use the taxonomy_dhtml module.
I'm not sure how you'd do the second page you listed above.
Try the directory module
http://drupal.org/project/directory
Lynna
Business: http://www.spidersilk.net
Personal: http://www.wildideas.net
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From memory, this site http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/ uses a 4.6 version of the directory module.
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide
How did I miss this?
This makes a certain amount of sense to me; I was hoping for something that allowed a decent search to take place just within the module (on a certain field, etc). An example would be an entry with a zip code, and users allowed to search for entries by typing in a zip code.
I'll push the directory module through my development cycle and report back if I can figure out the search functionality.
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Because part of the learning curve is time. There are a lot of pieces of solutions in that projects and the handbook. They are the bits that solved something for someone so it may just not be obvious and if you are lucky that the right person reads and answers your post. I hadn't even realized that someone had released the directory module for 4.7.
A group that may help you out is the Drupal dojo folks. They have a number of recorded sessions already and upcoming web casts scheduled. They had a previous web cast that touched on adding some customization to search module. Also you can look at how the porter-stemmer module interacts with search module for other ideas.
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide
Encouraging
Thanks for the words of wisdom, and turning me on to the dojo folks. I'll be taking a look at those recordings to further my knowledge.
I will say that if it wasn't for forums/communities like drupal.org I would have quit trying Drupal a week after I started testing it.
Thanks.
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In looking at your buddy's site, it looks like maybe Joomla is the way to go with this one, it's a pretty impressive site if you ask me. I guess the more appropriate question should be what can Drupal do for this site that joomla can't.
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Good question
TL raises a good question I guess...say he was a client; how would you convince him to break away from Joomla and implement a Drupal solution for this site?