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By stevieegee on
I am building a site for marine scientists from around the world to share research, information, photos, sightings, podcasts, general stories etc. I have a bounty of $300 - $500. It doesn’t need to be a general module.
I need a decent hierarchical menu system populated from (maybe there is a different solution) predefined taxonomy categories, the type of node and the author. There will be about 400 terms. For example.
Region drop down
- Africa
-- Ghana
-- Mozambique
-- Kenya
- Europe
-- United Kingdom
-- France
-- Germany
Marine Species drop down
- Shark
-- Great White
-- Leopard
-- Thrasher
- Ray
-- Manta
-- Yellow Spotted
-- Eagle
Poster drop down
- University of Marine Science
-- Professor Blue
-- Doctor Green
Type of post drop down
- Photos
- Podcasts
- Research notes
- Sightings
Two search examples would be
- All Post Types from All Universities of Leopard Sharks and Great Whites and Manta Rays from Kenya
- Photos taken in Africa of Rays by Professor Green
The menu has to sit in the left sidebar, work with multilingual sites featuring multi-selectable, dependent drop downs. New taxonomy terms are added by an administrator and the user information is collected from the user’s profile. It has to be easily ported to Drupal 6 in the future.
A good example is the Men's Clothing Finder on ebay.
http://clothes.listings.ebay.co.uk/Mens-Clothing_W0QQfromZR4QQsacatZ313Q...
This shows how I need the dependent menus to work, where the user can choose the depth of hierarchy, if any and then press search.
I can pay view paypal or cheque. Please outline your methodology or have a demonstration page that I can look at. If you can do this I will have more work in the near future.
Thank you - Stephen
Comments
Did you try existing modules?
hi stephen,
try these community shared modules:
http://drupal.org/project/nice_menus
http://drupal.org/project/dhtml_menu
http://drupal.org/project/menutrails
http://drupal.org/project/menutree
Regards,
Amit
Email: drupalexpertamit@gmail.com
Yes but thank you for your help
Hi Amit
I think the crux of my problem is that I need to sort and extract posts from multiple taxonomy terms and user profiles. Region, Marine Species and Type of Posts are all separate categories. I need to search using 'AND' between multiple terms with in these. For example - All Post Types from All Universities of Leopard Sharks and Great Whites and Manta Rays from Kenya.
A good example is the Men's Clothing Finder on ebay but with the ability to select multiple terms for example Leopard Shark and Thrasher Shark.
http://clothes.listings.ebay.co.uk/Mens-Clothing_W0QQfromZR4QQsacatZ313Q...
Please can you help if this can be done using any of the prescribed modules.
Thank you.
Stephen
Search form
If I understand correctly, you need a custom search form with the criteria
that you specified, instead of a simple menu structure.
The entries in this form should be built dynamically, from your categories.
When the user hits the search button, on the page should appear the list
of the results, paged, correct ?
It is doable, but a module should be built.
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Website : http://www.speedtech.it
Drupal references : http://www.speedtech.it/resources/software/web/drupal
Thank you
That is correct. The menu should also consist of other drop downs with add terms built dynamically from the users details like institution and name so that you can search are the posts about Whale Sharks from Prof. Green.
A good example (BASICALLY WHAT I WANT) is the Men's Clothing Finder on ebay but with the ability to select multiple terms for example Leopard Shark and Thrasher Shark.
http://clothes.listings.ebay.co.uk/Mens-Clothing_W0QQfromZR4QQsacatZ313Q...
Could you do this for $500?
Have you received my email ?
Have you received my email ?
Menu system
hi stephen,
just sent you an email. please check mailbox.
sent you an example of something similar in concept that i built using drupal.
regards,
amit
Email: drupalexpertamit@gmail.com
Take a look at faceted search
This module might help you with this:
http://drupal.org/project/faceted_search
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Thank you
I am not a developer - Could you do this for $500?
A good example (BASICALLY WHAT I WANT) is the Men's Clothing Finder on ebay but with the ability to select multiple terms for example Leopard Shark and Thrasher Shark.
http://clothes.listings.ebay.co.uk/Mens-Clothing_W0QQfromZR4QQsacatZ313Q...