Best way to build this complex structure

Posted by tomvansichem on December 12, 2012 at 1:45pm

Hello,

I was asked to build our new company site. I've used Drupal befored and I know most (basic) stuff. Also I have little knowledge of the PHP-language.

Our goal is to build a site with a structure like this:

example.be
- company
  - empty
  - ict
  - sales
- school
- association

Every part (=subsite?) has it's own menu. The site will be multilingual NL, FR and maybe later EN. The translating is not the issue, as I'm experienced with that.

My problem, however, is that I have not a single idea of what is the best way to start with this site!?

In Drupal 6 you have 'Subsites'-module, but that's way to unstable in D7, so I don't want to use that. Maybe I can try to set-up a multisite? Or I've read something about taxonomy? Or maybe there are very nifty modules I don't know (yet)?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Best Regards

Tom

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Posted by WorldFallz on December 12, 2012 at 5:31pm

Unless you want the sites to be completely independent and separate, I don't recommend using multisites. The two main ways to consider are using taxonomy and the og module. I tend toward using taxonomy when possible, but you should take http://drupal.org/project/og for a spin before you decide.

As for multiple languages, see http://drupal.org/documentation/multilingual.

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Thank you

Posted by tomvansichem on December 13, 2012 at 9:13am

Thank you for your reply WorldFallz!

I've also read an interesting article here: http://www.bluespark.com/blog/architecting-multi-country-site-drupal-7. The solution for this was the OG-module. Interesting for me, because my solution must be scalable to a multi-country site in the future.

I think I'll do some testing with 'Organic Groups', as it looks promising. But, as you've mentioned already, I don't think it wil fit my needs exactly. I will also try the 'Domain Access'-module, the other solution in the article.

Finally, I must confess I've never used Taxonomy... But it's never to late to learn, so I'll google 'Drupal Taxonomy' and see how far I can get with it.

Regards
Tom