By stevemagruder on

Like on a /category/blogs/blog-name page, how is the title and listing of nodes generated? I'm fairly new to Drupal, and I'm having trouble following how the code is put together (and I'm a programmer!).

Thanks,
Steve

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

First, there is Drupal's blog module which creates a blog for each user's posts of type "blog entry". But apparently you don't want user blogs.

If you have defined categories and you tag some posts with them, then you have a category blog in: taxonomy/term/nnn (where nnn the id of a category). The title is the name of the category.

To make the URL look better, you can enable the path module (a core module) and create an URL alias for taxonomy/term/nnn, for example category/blogs/blog-name. You can automate this part somehow by using the pathauto module.

Another approach is to use categories only for tagging but to do the listing with the views module, which has more options.

stevemagruder’s picture

stevemagruder commented

What files do I look at and what functions? That's all I meant. Thanks!

Steve Magruder - http://www.webcommons.biz

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

Doh!

I can't help much there but until someone who can comes up, check the http://api.drupal.org/api/5 page and try some substrings searches in the autocomplete box. I often locate useful stuff this way (where a function is, who calls it etc). For example the substrings title and taxonomy (in case of taxonomy listings) should come up with something useful.

And of course the phptemplate variables where the results are loaded.