By Dark_Adder on

Is there a module with a sort of advanced taxonomy. I have searched a lot in the module section but there I can't seem to find something like that wich can satisfy my needs.

But maybe I'll explain my needs first so you can understand what I'm talking about.

I would like a kind of taxonomy where I can define a category. For example a game: Call of Duty 4.

Now after I've created that category I should be able to add all kinds of things to that category.

  • Little standard information about the game
  • pictures
  • video's
  • forum
  • standard story
  • a blog
  • adds
  • ....

Now I want to add a story or something else to the category and publish it to the frontpage.If someone clicks on the story, he'll go to the page and he gets the small block with information, a block with other story's about the game, a block with a random image/video of the game and all stuff like that.

Is there a module that does something like this or one that has a lot of the things I just described?

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bestknight’s picture

bestknight commented

You've just described Drupal!!

Dark_Adder’s picture

Dark_Adder commented

Can you explain then where I can find the things I asked for?

I've made a drupal website or 2 (intranet from my work), with a taxonomystructure but I can't seem to get al those thing behind 1 taxonomy term. I've seen a site where it has => http://www.9lives.be/ (it's in dutch)

tanoshimi’s picture

tanoshimi commented

Here's how I'd do it:

Create content types for each type of content you are going to have:
-Review
-News Story
-Screenshot
-In-game video
-Cheat
-etc.

Create one or more taxonomies that apply to each of these content types
-Format (XBOX360/PS2/PC)
-Genre (Action/Driving)
-Game Name

You can do all this in core, but I'd also recommend getting the following must-have modules:

  • Views (will help define how you present content)
  • CCK (will help in defining fields for the content types above
  • Imagecache (will help in automatically resizing thumbnail pictures in reviews, image galleries etc.)

You can create blocks of related content using a module like http://drupal.org/project/relatedlinks or you can do it manually in views (http://drupal.org/project/views) using argument handling code which gives you more control over how you define and display the context-sensitive links (http://drupal.org/node/124446)...

If you're creating the site right now, use Drupal 5.5, not the drupal 6.x beta release.

Dark_Adder’s picture

Dark_Adder commented

tnx for the answer, It could do it. But its not really user friendly for fellow administrators who would like to add a category and don't really have drupal know how. But I'll trie it.

Drupal 6 is indeed a bit early there arn't enough modules for it at the moment.