Confused about difference between various content types
Hi all, I've been playing around with drupal 5.5 for the last couple of days and trying to figure out how things are done. I'm a bit confused about the difference and capabilities of some of the content types and looking for some advice so that I don't start off in the wrong direction:
I'm making a simple site for a podcast where the podcasts are all hosted remotely. The site will also feature a weekly column (basically a blog) and hopefully some discussion through comments and forums. I'm trying to decide if I should be posting all of my podcasts/columns as a forums topic because I like the way the forums organizes all of the content in table views.
So here are my questions:
1. Can I easily display regular story/blog posts neatly in the same sort of table view as the forum posts are displayed? I've just started to read over the views module, will this do what I'm looking for?
2. In the forums module, I haven't found a way to lock down a certain forum from users, is this possible without additional modules? For instance, if I create a forum called Podcasts where I post all of my podcasts, I don't want users to be able to make a new forum topic in the podcast section, I just want them to be able to reply to the forum topic as a comment. Similar to a typical blog. But then I want another forum for general discussion where users can post both new topics and comments.
3. Is there a way to convert a forums post to a story content type?
I appreciate any advice.
My advice: Get familiar and
My advice:
Get familiar and comfortable with Content Creation Kit, aka CCK, and the various modules associated with it. It will allow you to create your own custom content types that suit your needs without having to stick to the limitations of the pre-assigned content types.
Yes, you can make certain forums private - you'll need to use http://drupal.org/project/forum_access to accomplish it.
Hope that helps!
Aha! forum_access is exactly
Aha! forum_access is exactly what I was looking for. Got it installed and it works perfectly. Thanks. I'll also take a look at CCK.
see also
http://drupal.org/project/encl_remote
1. Can I easily display
1. Can I easily display regular story/blog posts neatly in the same sort of table view as the forum posts are displayed? I've just started to read over the views module, will this do what I'm looking for?
Yes. Views is exactly that you want. I'm not sure if you'll get an *identical*-looking table from Views; you might need to do some CSS styling or some theming if that's what you want.