By Vigile on

I am trying to move to a Drupal system for our website that does hardware reviews for PC components. One item I can't seem to nail down is how to create a "review".

A review is an item that has a title, author, date, etc and associated pages for it - more often than not will have multiple pages. At first the Book content type seemed a good fit, but there are some issues that keep popping up. They are:

1. There doesn't appear to be a way to create a book / article without a page? To act as the holder of the main article title, author, date, etc.
2. I would not want each page in the article to get post seperately on any part of the site (home page, category pages, etc) instead the pages ONLY exist inside the article itself.
3. Each page need its own title and body though the main "article" title should be associated with that page as well.
4. I would only want comments on the article, not on each article page separately

Is there some model of the book content that addresses these issues that maybe I don't know about? Is there another module that does this already? Or will I be forced to wait for the CCK version for Drupal 6 to begin anything like this?

Thanks !!!!

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vm commented

use the CCK.module and create a review content type

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Vigile commented

I am playing with that right now...learning as I go...

Looks like I'll have to create page navigation by hand using PHP? Create 2 content types, one Article and one Article Page (that has a field type node that is associated with the Article content type)?

I'd also want to modify the administration page so authors could simply click on their article content, then see a list of pages that exist and either edit them or add another one at the end or between pages... would this be a complicated task?

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vm commented

for lists (or content or taxonomy terms) you want to investigate views.module

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Vigile commented

Yeah, I just installed that too. This is REALLY complex....

Is there a user guide or something I can reference as I learn it?

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vm commented

There is no documentation specifically for views2 and drupal 6.x at this point that I am aware of. You can check out the documentation area -> contrib modules -> views and check

scour google, and angrydonuts.com the developers site.

Essentially views is a query builder. So it does help to understand how queries are built.

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Here's a list of options: http://groups.drupal.org/node/23899

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