By freelylw on

I am using drupal 5

I have category ‘A’ and category ‘B’ each category has many item under it.

I have putting on the menu of ‘A’ and ‘B’,I want them to be separately.

Category ‘A’ is linking to front page, whenever people upload something to the item which under category ‘A’, the content will showing on the front page automatic,.

I have set up when people upload to the item which under category ‘B’, the content won’t promote to the front page,

So, when people upload anything to the category ‘B’, nothing can be seen unless you click the name of the item which under category ‘B’,then you can see things already there.

The problem is , there is nothing under the name of the ‘category B’ all things only under the items which under the category B,

When people click the menu ‘B’ there is nothing there instead of a list of the name of the item which under the B. you only can see the things by click the name of the item . then will be a 2 steps action for seeing things under category ‘B’.

What I want is , I want everything under the category ‘B’ will automatically showing under the B menu, when people click menu B, things will all showing there(just like the front page) and then, people can click the name of the item on the side bar to see individually if they want.

Actually what I want is just like ‘2 front page’, when people upload to A, things will list on the front page A, when people upload to B, things will list on the front page B,I don’t wanna mix it up.

At the moment, I only have 1 front page, things upload to B, will only list under the name of the item. But not showing up automatically.

How can I do this within drupal5 without a extra module install ??? I had bad experienced of the installation of some extra module, whenever you uninstall ( or delete it )your website(or database) start to got problem.

Please help. Thank you very much.

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aterink commented

I got a bit lost with the whole A, B list thing. But from what it sounds like you're describing you could use the views.module to set up a second page. I don't use it myself (yet) but I've seen other people mention it in conjunction with what I think you want.

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freelylw commented

sorry , maybe my question is too long,

You can imagine I only want 2 main pages on my site, when people upload to category A things will list under the menu A , when people upload to category B things will list under the menu B. they won't be able to mix up. Is that possiable to do this within drupal but not by a extra mudule ? thank you .

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aterink commented

I've only been playing around with drupal a few months myself so I might be mistaken but I don't believe what you're asking is possible with drupal core. Using the views module I do believe it can be done though.

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freelylw commented

What's wrong at the moment is ,when people upload to the item which under category B, things doesn't list under the category B, things will only list under the name of the item which under category B,

there are about 10 different items which under category B at the moment, I want to have a page which looks like the front page , all things under category B can be list there as like all things under category A will list on the front page.

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nevets commented

Core Drupal has three concepts that you seem to refer to. One is taxonomy, also refered to category, so when you say category are you refering to the taxonomy module (core) or category module (contributed)?

Another is content type, when you say "I have set up when people upload to the item which under category ‘B’, the content won’t promote to the front page," I am guessing you have two content types "A" and "B" since the question of promoting to the front page is based on content type (and not category).

The third concept is menus which you seem to allude to but is unclear how you are building your menus and what "items" are in th menu(s)

So without being sure how you have divided up your content here are some hopefully helpful pointers. There are two main (core) ways of dividing content up, one is by content type, in this case one adds content of type "A" or "B" or "C" etc. Useful if the data collected for each content type is different and can also be useful for controlling how the content is displayed. The other is taxonomy/category, in this case you add content of type "X" and assign it an approriate term (say red, green and/or blue). Basically taxonomy lets you divide up a single content type and you can view all the content type with a given taxonomy term. At this point everything is pretty much core though you need the CCK module is you want content types with more than a title and a body.

If using taxonomy to divide up the content there is already a page to display content by a selected term, if dividing up by content type you would want to add the views module to help with making index pages.

As for the menu's how you are dividing content up makes a difference so it is hard to suggest a possible solution without knowing that.

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freelylw commented

thanks for reply, yep. what I want is a second index page,

'If using taxonomy to divide up the content there is already a page to display content by a selected term, .' that's what I have done acturally, Category A,B is just 2 different vocabulary by taxonomy, but both of them has about 10 different terms under themself.

i WANT to have a second index page for displaying the content which under B.

I am not using any extra module, no category module installed.

Can you tell me whether I can do this within drupal ?

Can I ask a question . If i INSTALL the view module or something else, IF Drupal update itself to version 6 in next month(just make a example), but my content are already based on these extra module structure, how can I update it ,guess that would invlove lots of problem when do the update ???