Hi all,
This is my first post and venture into the world of Drupal.
I have previously developed sites for Wordpress and Joomla! but have a project that needs the extra heavy lifting and room to grow that Drupal offers.
The site I am currently working on is for a football academy that has multiple locations through out the country and therefore needs to have multiple sub sites.
For example the main site would be http://domain.com with sub sites being http://domain.com/subsite etc.
The main function of the site will be for parents of kids to be able to register their children for the different programs that the academy runs.
Parents will ideally have their own account and be able to update their kids details and register them easily.
Events such as camps, after school programs and development courses all with start and end dates will need to be easily created by the academy staff.
Filtered searching would be great too.
I guess I'm just checking firstly if there are any modules anyone knows of that would handle this kind of functionality out of the box. Or just a place to start at least.
Any help would be great.
Thanks
Corey
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What do you mean when you say subsite?
They main site can just have different sections, while registering for different schools/programs would just be different items in the same eCommerce system.
You could easily change all the relevant data and options on a per school basis.
Hey thanks for your
Hey thanks for your reply.
Sub sites for different locations of the academy, as there will be different coaches, schools and programs running.
To keep it easy for parents, they would go to there local site eg. mytown.mainsite.com or mainsite.com/mytown. Rather than the main site and have to search through different details to find what they're after. There would also be admins looking after the different location's sites.
Hope that makes sense.
As far as programs setup and registration just a standard eCommerce module would be best?
Do you have any suggestions on which one's?
Thanks again
domain + og modules
Have you looked at:
http://drupal.org/project/subdomain
http://drupal.org/project/domain
http://drupal.org/project/og
Also see here for multi-site setup:
http://drupal.org/node/43816
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I wouldn't use sub domains. It would be ugly and require some uber nerdiness.
You could divvy up access to the site using a few different methods. Permissions, content types, organic groups.
Coaches, players, parents from one school could have their own area without accessing other parts.
Common area/content and they drill down into their specific school. Each one could have a block or a drop down menu. Lots of ways to do it.
Do you mean something like
Do you mean something like www.mercy.net ?
There is drop down selection on top of the page. When you select a specific link, content is rendered in relevance to that location so users don't have spend time searching around. I wouldn't recommend using sub domains. There's way too much work involved and in the end you may still be facing heavy drupal configuration which can be quiet a task depending on the complexity of your project.