Use Drupal Views and Multisite?
Hi Everyone,
I'm fairly new to Drupal so still getting to grips with some of the lingo and features. I am looking to set up an Automotive site, however I wish to break the site up a bit so it can focus on a particular make / model.
Ideally what I really want is a unique forum and image gallery for each kind of make / model. I was originally going to use a multisite set up to configure the site this way.
So that www.example.com/toyota and www.example.com/mazda etc.. were a different website, but shared the same drupal install / users and had a shared login (with the right modules).
However I am wondering if I could use say the "views module" to allow people to login to a website and see the latest say "toyota" related activity with a view.
So for example:
The latest posts in the "Toyota" section
The latest image uploads in the "Toyota" section
This way I can keep the site simplified with 1 website, but users can filter out the noise of other makes and models by looking at a specific view?
I haven't done much with the views module yet, so I'm still not sure what its capable of.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Gavin.
Yes! TBH you don't even need
Yes!
TBH you don't even need Views to do what you are suggesting (though Vews is extremely useful). If you just use the taxonomy system to create a Vocabulary called say "Make" and have individual terms "Toyota" etc. then if "Toyota" is term id 1 and you create a URL alias "toyota" pointing to taxonomy/term/1, then when you visit www.example.com/toyota you will see all recent posts that are tagged "Toyota".
gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk
No need for Multisite then?
So I really don't need to use the Multisite feature to achieve what I want to do?
I will look more into tagging and how it works and how I can configure it. Drupal is a large learning curve but it seems more and more powerful the more you learn.
I may have misunderstood
I may have misunderstood your requirement but if not then the taxonomy system is precisely intended to do the sort of thing you want. Some people get a bit worked up about how powerful Drupal's taxonomy is and give the impression that it is really complicated. Basically start with the idea of tagging, as you have mentioned, but just be aware that there are various interesting options that you can ignore to start with and there are also other things you can do with it. One interesting thing is the ability to arrange your "tags" (aka taxonomy terms) into tree-like heirarchies. This might be useful if you want to be able categorise at a more granular level than make and also do interesting things with the relationships between content (taxonomy is basically all about relationships). For example a Ford Ka and a Peugeot 306 are not the same make, and if you have heirarchically ordered your taxonomy then Drupal can "know" this. However you would probably have to write PHP snippets to do anything much with such parent-child relationships, or else use modules that take advantage of this.
The only other thing you need to know at this stage is that you can have more than one "set" of tags on a given site, and each "set" is called a "vocabulary" in Drupal lingo. So you could have one vocab called "Make" and another called "Colour" and hence tag content according to Red Mazda, Blue Ford etc.
Buy hey, start simple, have a play and take it from there.
gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk
Thanks for the information
Thanks for that. I've watched a couple of screen casts on it. I think you are right when you say alot of people get worked up over how complicated it is. I find its the same with Drupal in general, its not that complex, its just the Admin interface in itself is not as well organised as it could be and there are so many options thrown in your face, you don't know where to begin.
Cool
Sounds like you are getting the hang of it :-)
gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk