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By mvtilborg on
Hello there,
I am rather new to drupal and wonder how to build my lyrics site based on drupal. I installed drupal 6 and after many hours of looking and reading around I think I have more or less a clue on the basics. I figured some handy modules already, managed to build some site, figured out some settings and how the default modules work more or less.
Before I go any further I will explain my needs. It will be a lyrics site, where every lyric is a post tied to the song post. Of course a song is part of an album and an album is part of an artist. Also there will be for every album and artist a seperate post with appropiate information.
How can I manage a way that:
1: those are linked together, that means from a lyrics post I should be easly able to go to its artist or albums page and visa versa.
2: When a lyric is added (with CCK?) a dropdown for artist, whereafter the proper selectbox comes up with the albums to choose from.
Is there a way to do this with existing modules?
Hope someone can push me in the right direction.
Regards and thanks in advance,
Merijn
Comments
The easiest way to do this
The easiest way to do this is with CCK and the nodereference function. You can also arrange your taxonomy in a hierarchical fashion, like this:
Artist --> album --> song --> lyrics
Hope that helps.
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Just add to BWV's info-- the
Just add to BWV's info-- the reverse is accomplished with the http://drupal.org/project/nodereferrer module (the d6 version is still in the issues queue being developed atm).
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Thanks
Both of you thanks for the push in the right direction.
I am working on the CCK nodereference now, although the only complication will be that it is one-directional if I understand well. This means first an artist must be present, then an album must be present before a lyric/song can be setup correctly with the right associations. But still it will not give the correct backlinks from visiting an artist and showing all lyrics (if I understand well). Anyways this is a great start forr me to keep going and for sure a good learning process of understanding the nodereference feature.
edit: seems the latter comment refers to this issue, looking forward to see the drupal 6 update for this andsee how I can progress further with it later on.
I also read slightly into the taxonomy module, which brings me another step further I think in adding genres (music genres vocabulary list) to my content. I am going to test the taxonomy_csv module for it to bulk import those. Thought it would be nice to share my progress.
I might comeback for more questions I think related to this fun project.
Thanks and regards,
Merijn
May I please recommend for
May I please recommend for mass importing of terms the taxonomy batch operations module, or the taxonomy manager module I have never used the csv module for bulk importing, and maybe it will work just fine, but if you can export your data to a straight text list, either of the two modules I mention above will save you a lot of time.
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http://classicvinyl.biz
http://music.bwv810.com
http://davidhertzberg.com
http://association.drupal.org/user/1207
I am a writer, researcher and solo drupal freelancer
Taxonomy Manager seems a good one
Thanks again,
I'll go for the Taxonomy Manager as it is ready for drupal 6, the other one I came across also but is not ready for 6 (yet). Anyways it seems way better indeed than the csv module, which was the only one I could find fast. Another learning moment, taking myself some more time to figure out the best modules for a task ;)
Regards,
Merijn
taking myself some more
Which should get a great deal easier after the d.o redesign!
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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." -- Lao Tzu
"God helps those who help themselves." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Search is your best friend." -- Worldfallz
Meantime, don't hesitate to
Meantime, don't hesitate to ask here. Lots of helpful people browse these boards.
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http://classicvinyl.biz
http://music.bwv810.com
http://davidhertzberg.com
http://association.drupal.org/user/1207
I am a writer, researcher and solo drupal freelancer