By c-c-m on

Hello,

I would like to show at the frontpage a list with the last forums' interventions in which the following information would be displayed:
-Comment/topic's title
-Comment/topic's author's name
-author's avatar
-comment/topic's date

In the world where I come from (phpnuke) this should be done creating a block that would show that information and would be displayed only at frontpage's module.

Unfortunately I don't have any idea about where to start with Drupal. I didn't find any file that contains blocks (or I haven't been able to identify it -at nuke's blocks are files placed in "blocks" folders) nor any way to customize blocks. I don't know how to show a certain module (in this case, in the frontpage). In addition, I have doubts about if blocks are the best way to achieve what I want or there are other ways.

And regarding displaying a block at the frontpage: I have seen that every block has an option to choose in which pages are displayed or not. I have tried the following combinations without any success:
/
/index.php

or

http://myodmain/
http://mydomain/index.php

or

mydomain/
mydomain/index.php

but none of them worked. What should I type?

Thanks

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skywalker2208’s picture

skywalker2208 commented

To get a block to only display on the front page use <front>

Also here is some info about block.
Block info

c-c-m’s picture

c-c-m commented

Thank you! I didn't know it was so easy to display a block at the frontpage. Are there more shortcuts like that to display blocks for a certain module? (eg. Forums, Image gallery...)

And by the way, what would you think of using "Views" to achieve what I want to do? Is it easier? Better? Worse?

Thanks

Edit:
I have been trying Views module, and I have found a problem I don't know how to deal with: in Drupal "Forums" don't exist per se, they're a group of nodes with comments, like everything. I would like to display a list of last discussions at forum, merging nodes and comments, and ordered by date. In addition, every comment may have a title, but I don't want to display that title but the referred node's title. I realized there's a block that already does that, but it only displays title, and I would like to add date, author and author's avatar. I don't know where to find that block and edit it.