By forestcall on

Hi-

I like all the good vibes here at Drupal- Im a long time Joomla Developer and now with a new Religious Media Library project i thought I would test out Drupal-

Im trying to make a nice directory of 40+ religions and sub-religion categories. So there would be category view and details view.
On details view I want multiple features: page views, reviews/comments, swf audio/video using flash player, mp3/avi direct file download, photo of speaker, organization, url, description, etc.

All of this would be configured via a control panel so I can quickly add the data for a new item.

What is the best way to go about assembling a input-form with all of these features? I know all of these features are available in v6.0+
There are a few templates that need to be created such as front end and admin end. Is there a way to easily create these templates and insert
tags into various templates to complete this? Or do I need to code something original? (do I use 5.0+ or 6.0+)

Any help, ideas, suggestions, or pointers to existing apps please let me know!! :-)

Here is a CRUDE example of where I am going - http://www.basic5.org/main/index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2Det...
This is Joomla- I want to do this using Drupal 6.0x +-

Thanks!!!

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Comments

paulnem’s picture

paulnem commented

First, use 5.7 as 6.0 has very few modules available as yet.

If I understan you correctly I would get CCK and the various CCK addons, this will allow you to add things like images, audio, whatever else to your node/page.

Then get views which will allow you to group your nodes and display them.

Theme it all up and you're good to go.

techguy10’s picture

techguy10 commented

I'd recommend using Drupal 5.7 for now since a lot of mods haven't been upgraded yet to Drupal 6, I think it would be overly frustrating to start off with Drupal 6 which was just released about a week ago (I'm sure there are mods out there to meet your requirements, sorry I can't be of more help, but if you use D 6 you are going to find most of the mods won't work with it yet)

bambam-1’s picture

bambam-1 commented

without CCK and VIEWS (specially more stable versions) it is impossibles to setup a directory... not to mention several other great modules are also in the either alpha, beta and dev stages and still give out a lot of errors and don't work properly... my guess is they won't be ready until mid to late march, if you can wait, wait it out, play around with what drupal has to offer, get your hands dirty and learn everything about it so that when majority of modules are out you can get to work

drupal 6 is very attractive and a lot simpler and better than D5 for creating all sorts of content and managing themes but out of the box it's basically useless for everything except simple content and blog sites.