By Perad on

I am converting my website but am having some difficulty in being able to comprehend the tasks which I need to do.

On my website I have a portfolio page which pulls a list of all the projects I have done and displays them in small images. When you click on a specific image it takes you to portfolio.php?project=projectname. Thus showing the project itself as well as development information.

Now, I understand that the information about each project would be a custom node which I have yet to create.

What I do not understand is what the parent will be. What will the parent portfolio.php become? A node as well or some sort of page?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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samhnky commented

While I do not want to say that I have an understanding of Drupal... I will say that the idea, or greatest aspect of Drupal is that you do not create a page for your projects, rather you create a Category/Taxonomy. That said I will admit that while I am still trying to fully grasp this concept, I had a minor break through 2 days ago that could help you with this.

To take advantage of the power of Drupal, you not only have to create Categories... you have to create a list of vocabulary for that category. So for the website I'm working on right now I only have one category, but I have 5 vocab terms under it and each one of them will have at least 2 terms under them. Once you have your categories and terms then as you create, or even after you have created, the nodes for your projects you assign the node to the appropriate term/project... So if one project has multiple stages, each stage would be assigned to that vocab/project term. Now to figure out the links for these vocab/term pages you go into "Administer -> Categories -> list terms" on the page that is listing the terms simply look at the address that the terms are pointing too, either by pointing at them and examining the status bar at the bottom of your browser, or by right clicking them and copying their link. To create a link to them in your menu you would simply paste the shortcut and delete everything in front of the word "taxonomy" so the link would look like "taxonomy/term/2" (minus the ").

Hope this helps... now that "understand" this one concept, the system makes a lot more sense too me, but no one explained it to me this way when I tried to use this program a year ago. Good luck.

Thank you,
-Sam