By raskolt on

Hello

I am a newbie in drupal system and found it very powerful cms when I first saw it. But I am a little confused about some issues.

I want to build a film database site and tried to build it. But I was confused to select the version; 5.x or 6.x. I think 5.x has more compatible modules. Wich one do I have to select?

Also I am confused to use the modules. I know that I need CCK but I am confused to use other modules(taxonomy and views) Can you suggest me modules that can satisfy my needs according to the explanation of my website.

I will have eight different areas like director, actors, scenario, runtime. It will be on the films page. Then I want my system to list all films a director when I clicked on it like in IMDB. (Also actors and scenario) I think I can handle other areas which does not create a link. Also I want to put a trailer of the film to the page.

Then the most important thing: I want to upload all this information by excel to the database. Is it possible also?

Thanks for your help.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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bwv commented

With 5.x or 6.x, you can build a very nice database site with text, images, video excerpts, etc. You will need taxonomy to organize your site, this is critical. Views will allow you to display your information in several different ways.

Not sure about uploading all this data via excel, however. You might want to have a look at this:

http://drupal.org/project/node_import

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raskolt commented

Thank you very much for your answer.

I think I have to understand taxonomy a little more. It is a very powerful module. I saw someone built a site like I wanted and it is now obvious that drupal can handle it.

I can handle database in a away.

Thanks again.

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.jon commented

Hi,

I'm also building a film database on a Drupal 6 site and looking for advice in a specific problem.

It's easy to build a film content type complete with some predefined values in relevant fields etc, but I'd like to link the Films to Directors.

What would be the best way to proceed? I've been thinking about freeform tagging, so the users could just write the directors name in the correct taxonomy field, and link the Director's films via this tag... but the problem is that the Director should actually be a node with bio and complete filmography and such.

Node referrer and linking modules seem to be D5 only at the moment.

thanks.jon

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WorldFallz commented

i do this with nodereference (part of cck core) and nodereferrer (the d6 patch in the issues queue). http://drupal.org/project/nodereferrer_create might also be worth a look.

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.jon commented

Thanks WorldFallz,

that looks promising!

cheers.jon

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WorldFallz commented

you're welcome ;-)

I probably should have mentioned that there are a myriad of node relationship modules available also (node2node, nodehierarchy, node_relativity, etc). They all have their various pros and cons. Since D6, I just find myself trying to stick as much to core/cck/views/nodequeue as possible.

good luck...

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.jon commented

Thanks again,

I'll look through those as well. I agree that CCK & Views is the way to go. Moving to D6 has made me a bit sceptic and careful about relying on contributed modules. If a module exists, it's either dev, alpha or beta :( really sad, because the D6 core if much more admin-friendly and logical. Luckily the alphas and betas are of good quality and present no problems (knock knock), it's more of a mental issue to be honest.

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mm167 commented

if u allow other member to input the director's name, sooner or later, each director will have more that 1 name, due to spelling error, full name, middle initial .....

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.jon commented

I realize that issue will come up sooner or later, but there will be a handful of superusers seeing over the database, and the group inserting the new films will be instructed well. Furthermore there is a neat auto-complete feature available for the reference fields which will minimize mistakes.

I have some version conflicts at the moment (what you get for using the latest versions of contrib modules..) but Node Refererrer and Reference seem to provide the functionality I was looking for.

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