By richroman on

Hello,

I am interested in making a website in Drupal 6. It would select some various topics that I want - and then aggregate content/articles from reliable and affluent sources. For example, I would aggregate Geography news from National Geographic, TIME, etc. I would have various topics - and clicking on a topic will take you to a page where you could see, say 5 article titles from different sources.

A website that is VERY similar to what I am looking to make is www.alltop.com . Could anyone direct me in this?

thanks in advance,
~Rich

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mistresskim commented

Haven't walked through this myself but it looks pretty thorough so should help you get started.

http://mydrupalblog.lhmdesign.com/build-aggregation-site-drupal-part-1

It's for Drupal 5 but I'm sure the same principles apply to D6.

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root_of_roots commented

Hey,

Thanks for the link. I looked over that tutorial, and the end result. If I wanted a layout more like alltop.com how would I go about it? The tutorial has it in a way that you end up with aggregated content being displayed on top of each other, rather than with various panels that have children.

There was another thread about this here but it seems to have died.

Any direction on this from anyone?

thanks,
-ROR

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zilla commented

see: http://drupal.org/node/317959

looks like panels and views and feeds with a taxonomy...some script to popup topics, etc

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renec commented

All you need is a few quick steps, no problem at all really. Like zilla said

Looks like just
1) Get the Views, Panels, and possibly SimpleFeed (I believe that the default feed aggregation works, and there is also the more feature-rich and advanced FeedAPI) modules.
2) Make some blocks with Views and SimpleFeed/D6 Aggregation/FeedAPI that aggregate content from a specific location (it might do it automatically with the default Drupal aggregation, I don't remember).
3) Align the blocks side-by-side, on top of each, whatever...with Panels.
4) (optional) get rid of the sidebars, etc. in whatever theme you are using to clean space (assuming they are collapsible)
5) Little bit of cron configuration to update your feeds
6) The rest is just JavaScript/AJAX for the onHover, etc.

I can post a step-by-step a little later.

Rene Cieszewski

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socialtalker commented

i think i will try this
in the news section of my community sites! thanks!

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richroman commented

Thanks a lot Rene! I'll be awaiting that step-by-step as well....

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AntiNSA commented

ME TOO

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AntiNSA commented

Any Progress on this yet?????

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renec commented

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the interest.
Unfortunately I have been really busy lately. I still am. Between work and school, I do not have time for much else. I don't know when I will get around to it. I recommend that you use the guidelines I posted above and play around with those modules; this should be sufficient. It is not a difficult task. In fact, it is probably fairly easy compared to other things you may come across. If you run into any problems, just post a detailed description here and I will see if I can quickly diagnose it remotely.

Please don't use repetitively capitalized letters and trailing question marks. It's really not classy, and it is looked down upon.

Best Regards,
-Rene Cieszewski

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AntiNSA commented

:) Ok. I Understand , I am also a teacher .

Thank you for your kind reply-
BR
Robert
www.thecenterofthenet.com

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AntiNSA commented

Using drupal 6 and I can see that cuetip is for 5.x .... any ideas on how to get thhis to work with6?

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renec commented

I have no clue what you're asking; your sentences are unclear. Are you telling me that something called "cuetip" is not available for Drupal 6? What is "cuetip?" Can you give a link or something?

I did, however, find your other post (which happens to be the only other mention of "cuetip" on this website)...

"Hi! If you look at alltop.com you can see that the teaser is being placed into the hover box. I would like to figure out how to do this. He does it with cuetip he says, which is only for drupal 6. anyone know how to get this done?"

...which implies that cuetip is available for Drupal 6. So, which is it? It sounds like some kind of jquery library though.

Regards,
-Rene Cieszewski

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AntiNSA commented

I used the jQuery clueTip for the in-page feed item teasers integrated directly into a slightly modified Zen Classic theme.

Check it out at http://leftwingnut.com

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