By gmills@gregmills.com on

I'm just going to lay out what I need Drupal to do and hope that someone reading this has a relatively simple solution.

I'm setting up a web site for a church (miamichurch.org). I need to create a page where I can put sermon audio. A new sermon will be added weekly and I want them in order chronologically, most recent first.

I guess I need something like a second "home" page that I can "promote" my nodes with audio attachments to. I thought of setting up a user blog for it but the blog is named "usernames' blog" with no option for changing that heading. I think if I created a page and just wrote in an introductory paragraph on it then added each sermon as a comment with the audio as an attachment that would be perfect. But I don't want anyone else to be able to comment on that page and I don't know if the most recent comment would appear at the top.

I tried one of the file modules and it didn't work. I don't like discovering that modules don't work because I don't know how to remove them. I can delete the files but I don't know how safely clean the table they create out the drupal database.

So if there is a module that is known to work well with the newest version of Drupal that will do what I need to do then that would be great. Even better would be a creative suggestion for using Drupal's built-in features to create a solution.

Thanks in advance,
Greg

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media girl’s picture

media girl commented

You might look at the periodicals module. Not sure if it's what you want. It's relatively new (at least to 4.5). I've not yet tried it.
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sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

do a search on flexnode.

THere are several add ons with audio modules to flexnode. I don't use them myself.

If a module you added included a sql file, then you cna generally delete the tables that were created from the file (I use the dba module myself). Please note that if you do not have a test site where you can import your live data to test updates/changes/etc, now would be the time to create one.

I can't mention enough that good practices in site management include a test site with your live data being imported into it periocically.

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

gmills@gregmills.com’s picture

gmills@gregmills.com commented

Thanks,

I looked at Flexinode before and wasn't sure if it would do what I needed. I'll probably set up a testing site and try it out. Thanks, for that tip BTW. Is there some place I should look for the sound "add-ons" to Flexinode?

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

here's one thread that should get you started.
http://drupal.org/node/10814

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

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Prometheus6 commented

If you want to stick with the core distribution you may be able to work with the book node type. I have a (very) opinionated site where I use it to aggregate "best of" posts. This is what a book looks like:

http://drupal.org/handbook

The really good thing is each page is a regular post--story, blog, whatever. You can go about your business writing things and slot them into a book when you create it (probably your case) or later on using the outline tab. There's a sidebar block available to help navigate, and there's a URL to the top level:

http://drupal.org/book

that looks a lot like your second home page.

With a little thought you can do what you want. And since it's core functionality you can be sure the functionality will continue to be supported (or at worst a clean conversion will be provided).

gmills@gregmills.com’s picture

gmills@gregmills.com commented

This looks like it's going to be a really great solution.

The actual file link is all the way at the bottom of the page but I think it would be like that in every node because of the way the upload module works. And it puts then in oldest first but applying weights to the nodes will fix that and it really isn't that much more work. I also like the added bonus of being able to page through the audio with the prev and next links at the bottom of the page.

Thanks a ton!