Posted by pcbudde on December 17, 2012 at 4:20pm
Hey Drupal experts
I want to create a website where a user can login/sign up and navigate their own unique page (sorting news categories). The settings for each user will therefore have to be unique and this is what I am having trouble with. As I understand it drupal core gives the same permission to a group and not the individual. Is there anyway around creating a setup site where people can login and see/alter their settings to receive the right news?
(im new to drupal)
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Taxonomy and Views
You could use a thing called "taxonomy" which is like "tags".
So every registered user could select the taxonomy terms they are interested in. You could use these same terms to tag various bits of news. Then, when the user visits the site, you could use the Views module to display the news, and filter it to the taxonomy terms they have selected.
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ahhh thank you. The problem
ahhh thank you.
The problem is that i am going to make a search engine that can identify users that have selected on specific news. Can this be done with taxonomy? or is something like fields the way to go?
I'm pretty sure that however
I'm pretty sure that however you plan to associate interest in a certain topic with a field can also be done with a taxonomy term. You may need to investigate something like "Rules" that will allow you to perform actions based on users' choices.
You can also associate taxonomy terms with users.
I think the best way to learn would be to create a test Drupal install and create some dummy content (see http://drupal.org/project/devel). Don't worry about the theme at all and just work through how a user would "like" certain "nodes" and how you would present more nodes tagged with the same term. You'll also find that you can display these taxonomy terms, and they automagically become links to all content that shares the term.
IMHO it is best to get in there and mess around a bit, even if you don't know what you are doing.
You may also like: http://drupal.org/project/community_tags
A list of some of the Drupal sites I have designed and/or developed can be viewed at http://motioncity.com/drupal
Great advice...I will try to
Great advice...I will try to look into it
Really hard to start making a project when you start from scratch without any experience, so this was exactly what I was looking for.
hmmm okayI looked into it a
hmmm okay
I looked into it a bit and I don't think this is quite it. In functionality I am trying to make a similar page as facebooks privacy setting page.
Its therefore not tags associated with content but merely the setting page I want to create.
Do you have any recommendations for doing this?
EDIT:
Think I am having trouble explaining what my goal is.
I want a unique user setting page where they can choose which news to receive, without ever showing it. Just the function of sports (yes/no) etc
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Taxonomy terms should be able to handle this. List the terms with the checkboxes, have the user check which terms they are interested in, then create a view block with a contextual filter of: Content: Has taxonomy term ID.
:D okay..really low tech
:D okay..really low tech then. How do I create the check boxes on the user page?