Need help -- I swear I'm not stupid!
Just downloaded and installed 5.2, but I just can't figure something out and I'm desperate. I know people have better things to do then answer seemingly stupid questions, but everywhere I look I find explanations that utilize the same terminology, and I think that's what's confusing me. So I'm begging for some guidance :)
I've tried a few CMS solutions for a site and have so far eliminated Joomla!, SilverStripe, Xaraya and Plone, so I'm hoping Drupal will do (I like the admin area so far, but just can't figure this out).
So, I'm trying to create a site on one large topic, divided in sub-topics and so on.
Example site structure:
http://www.music.com/
http://www.music.com/rock/
http://www.music.com/rock/progressive/
http://www.music.com/rock/progressive/band.php
I created a category (vocabulary) for Rock, now how do I make it so that going to http://www.music.com/rock/ displays something? When I go to the url it's a page not found. I've managed to create http://www.music.com/rock/progressive/ with a working url because there's a content item with a URL alias, but I can't apply a URL alias to a vocabulary.
As you can probably tell I'm confused on a fundamental level of Drupal, but the resources I've found really don't help me conceptualize what's going on.
Thanks for any help, and sorry for the uber-noob question.
Dan
vocabulary (in drupal
vocabulary (in drupal terminology) is only the logical container. to create the structure you've described, you need to make vocabulary named, for example, "music" (or "badabum" or "whatetheryouwant"). now, under created vocabulary, you need to create "rock" term in 1st level and "progressive" under "rock". Catch an idea? btw., you need to add "band" from "/node/add" interface, but it's another story to tell... :-)
Try to upload taxonomy block
Try to upload taxonomy block or taxonomy menu
with any of this modules you can create the menu or a block with your categories displayed
if not you can just go to admin menu, and then ad a new option to navigate to bring you to the node you want, or create a new menu and do the same
i recomend you taxonomy menu or block better
I have something similar in http://www.rodats.com/
but i use a different themes in each page from the main menu, (even it loocks the same)
but then i can configure each theme with the taxonomy block or menu i want
its just an option
First, thanks for the
First, thanks for the replies, much appreciated.
I'll try the taxonomy modules. I'm not sure I was clear on exactly what I wanted. I want there to be a page at each subdirectory:
/rock/index.php
/rock/progressive.php
etc..
Does that change things?
there are many possible ways
there are many possible ways to show content in drupal. you can create site with any structure you want, especially if you exactly knows that do you want :-) start from following the way, perfectly described by gumbotron and you will see, is it suit your needs.
Hope this is what you mean
If I want a new page or whatever on a specific /page, I always enable clean URLs in site administration as well as URL aliases in modules. I then just create the new content and tell it what URL I want it to respond to in the bottom menus above Submit.
When you create a new page, the URL you pick will go on the end of the domain. Giving a new page the URL of rock (no proceeding slash) would produce www.music.com/rock, and making a new page with the URL rock/heavy_metal would make the page for www.music.com/rock/heavy_metal. the/most/rockingest/URL/ever/in/the/world/ever would work, too.
You can then use Views to make the page anything you want, or you could make Black Sabbath and Pantera blocks that only show up in the content section of the heavy_metal page, or mix up some css/php voodoo, whatever.
You can also use Views to construct a page that answers on a URL you pick, but Views has a bit of a learning curve...
Hope that helps.
EDIT: on second glance, I think I may have misunderstood. But with views you can still make a page on nearly any URL that shows only results related to a term you choose.