By rheide on

I have posted a few questions in the forums that have yet to get answered so I thought it would be time to move to the Paid services :-)

Anyway, unless what I'm asking for is VERY complicated which I don't think it is, I'm looking for someone who can explain the best way to accomplish what I'm trying to do rather than setting it up for me.

I am attempting to put together what I thought was a simple drupal configuration but I’m struggling to understand how to set it up. We will be adding Articles throughout the day. Each article will have quotes attached to them (I’m referring to them as sub articles). They are almost like comments except we will be entering them. In the future, we would might want to allow comments on the Main Article as well as comments on each Sub Article. We would expect to have approx 30 sub articles per Main Article.

So a simple scenario would be Article 1 gets added to the site. The content manager (human) would then either add another article or find a related quote to add to the first article OR a different article.

This is how we would want it to look on the main home page.
You could think of it as a movie review – similar to http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/baby_mama/?critic=creamcrop

Royals win the world series
“This is crazy” – KCTV 5
“Unbelievable” – ESPN
“Nuts” – MTV

Also, we would want to setup the authors of the sub articles so you could click on their names and see a profile of them. Please keep in mind, we would be entering this data, NOT the actual users.

Main Article
Title
Body
Link
Category
-would like the option to allow comments in the future

Sub Article
Title
Body
Link
Author
-would like the option to allow comments in the future

Author
Title
Body
Link

The part that I am really struggling with is linking the Article and sub articles in a way that would allow for easy additions.

Please let me know what you would charge to help walk me through this.

Thanks!!

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skrbdm’s picture

skrbdm commented

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wilson98’s picture

wilson98 commented

i don't very get it. have you try nodereference module?

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mikeschinkel’s picture

mikeschinkel commented

There are probably several things you can do. But my question is how detailed might these quotes be?

If they are simple are you are showing I would just set up a long text field that can accept multiple values and define a "syntax" that your node-article.tpl.php theme would process, i.e. "<quote>" - <source> where the quotes and the dash are required otherwise you display an error and the person entering the content learns they have to go back and fix it.

If you need more than that, email me via mikeschinkel[aht]gmail[doht]com and we'll discuss a simple consulting arrangement which might include me developing a CCK field type for you that will give you exactly what you need.

-Mike Schinkel
http://mikeschinkel.com