By promete on

I have static page develped with HTML. There are some kind of essays. I want to install tjem in my database. This is neccessary for dynamic pages. I installed drupal and finally logged in as an admin. How will i do? What should i do now? Thanks in advance

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styro commented

It's a bit hard to tell what you want to do.

What have you already tried?

How many essays do you have?

Do these essays have multiple pages?

Do you need categories?

You mention dynamic pages. Why do you need dynamic pages, and what do you mean by dynamic pages?

Would you prefer a hierarchy of essays, or dynamic lists based on categories?

What other features do you want?

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Anton

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promete commented

İ am now trying to understand how drupal works.
I have hundreds of essays. and ı will keep them in my database in a table. title, writer, date etc columns will be. I want to display them in one page although they are long.
Of course i need categories. Type ie cinema, music, science ...
But i wat to keep these categories in the database too.
By mentioning dynamic, i mean i dont wan to deal with addin new essays. i will add them to my database. The site wiil display in the home page the last ten essays. Could i explain ?

What is the first step?

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styro commented

Have you read through the following?

http://drupal.org/node/6261
http://drupal.org/best-practices

To start with...

Create your user roles (eg admins, authors etc), and a user account for yourself. Leave the first account alone as a back up.

Go into the admin - access control page and assign any rights you want.

Create a vocabulary for your categories using the taxonomy module. For each category create a term in this vocabulary. I'm assuming that you only need one vocabulary to cover your categorisation needs.

Use a story node type for each essay - that will take care of your title writer and data stuff. When you select the promote to front page box, these essays (and their intros) will automatically appear on the front page sorted by creation date.

When creating the story nodes, select which categories you want them to appear in.

You could create page nodes for static content pages on the site (eg about, contact etc), and give these nodes friendly url aliases.

After you've chosen your theme, go into your theme and edit the primary and secondary menus. Add links in your static pages and for your category listings (the taxonomy urls you get when viewing a term).

Add a site mission for text that appears at the top of the home page.

There's not much more to it than that, and all that is pretty well documented in the handbook. Just explore the admin pages and start playing with settings.

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Anton

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promete commented

i think the handbook a bit complicated for starters.
Thanks!

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promete commented

I want to add my content to fronr page from my database. In order to do this should i have to write php code or is there any easier way?

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styro commented

But the answer would probably be yes in most cases.

There are lots of PHP snippets listed in the handbook:

http://drupal.org/node/23220
http://drupal.org/node/21867

From these you could probably adapt some to your purposes.

Also you can look through the API docs for what the functions do and to look for news ones you can use:

http://drupal.org/node/326

With the API there is a lot of stuff you can do without needing to write any database queries yourself. Although you can still do that to if you need to.

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Anton

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bonobo commented

http://www.funnymonkey.com/configured-site

This link will lead you to a pre-configured drupal install of the core modules and some contributed modules.

While this site is pre-configured for educational use, it can help you pick up some of the basics of how to organize your site. It comes with some taxonomy terms in place, which will provide one way of creating the

categories. Type ie cinema, music, science ...

you mention in your original post.

Additionally, the front page is a php snippet that pulls the 7 most recent posts -- it could be modified for this:

The site wiil display in the home page the last ten essays

Hope this is useful.

Cheers,

bonobo

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sangamreddi commented

Hi

Use story module to publish your essays. or else you u can use node import module to import all the essays into ur drupal site.

Sunny
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