By fuzzplugjones on

Hello, I need to set up a little "store" on my site but since I'm only selling music at online retailers (iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, eMusic) the only "Buy" options will be links to these products on other sites. I would like the "products" to have a title, body, picture (album cover) and links to the stores (which I would rather not show, instead show "Buy at iTunes" instead of the 200-character-long URL).

I don't think I need an ecommerce module, and I know I can do this by hand with divs and a lot of code, but is there an easy, specifially-Drupal way to do it?

Thanks
-mark

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crookednumber’s picture

crookednumber commented

You're right that you don't need an e-commerce module -- just a few modules that allow you to created a customized node type(s). Start with:

CCK (http://drupal.org/project/cck)

Try that out and toy with it for a little. [Not the easiest thing to pick up, but there's lots of tutorials and documentation.] You'll also likely need:

Imagefield (http://drupal.org/project/imagefield)

Link (http://drupal.org/project/link)

Also, before you start plugging in content, you might look at

Computed Field (http://drupal.org/project/computed_field)

which could help you streamline things (e.g., if product is available at iTunes, then this is the link; if at Napster, then compute link like this ... etc.)

http://CrookedNumber.com

fuzzplugjones’s picture

fuzzplugjones commented

Yep, that's how to do it. Thanks!

Now, the next question:

Now I need a View. I have Views installed but I've never been able to fully wrap my head around it. It doesn't seem like I can just say "display all the nodes that are of content type: [the content type I made with CKK]". Can you help me out with that?

-m

Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented

Views can do this easily. Just add a node type filter towards the bottom of the page while editing the view.

-Mike Goodwin
http://www.not2us.net
http://www.redleafmedia.com

fuzzplugjones’s picture

fuzzplugjones commented

Missed the filtering one first time through. Got it now. Thanks for the quick responses.

Jeremy Toaster’s picture

Jeremy Toaster commented

Hey 'fuzzplugjones'
I am wanting to do the same thing you are doing, would you be able to outline the steps you took to make this happen?

Thanks a lot!

jeremy