what's the best option to publish a daily comic stripe?
Hello
I want to publish a daily comic stripe on my Drupal site and I would like to ask about the best way to do it. That's what I have thought:
1. Creating a custom node type (called "comic")
2. Adding an image_field field to "comic" node type
3. Creating a page view that would filter all "comic" node types and would display only the file field
This option has two main problems:
1. I can't see the next and previous stripes (this is really a must)
2. Since I don't want to show the title because it would be the date's, there's no way to comment each stripe
So, does anyone know how can I solve this issues?
I have been searching a little bit here, but the posts are quite old (most of them regarding to D4.7). Some of them point into some modules, but they seem to be abandoned or on heavy development, because there's no stable version and there's no D6 version neither (I will have to move everything to D6, so that's another must)
Hope can anyone help me.
Thank you
iirc there are a couple of
iirc there are a couple of modules that will be useful to you... just enter "comic" into the "Search downloads" box to located them.
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I made a search and I found
I made a search and I found two of them :
Webcomic (http://drupal.org/project/webcomic) and Comic view (http://drupal.org/project/comicview) but that's what I said: there's no stable version for none of them, and additionally, after testing them they don't seem to work pretty well.
There's another option I am considering: Archive
What about using a 'book
What about using a 'book page' for each strip?
You could collate many topically-related or sequential strips in each book.
Each book-page has it's own comments (I think).
And each book has it's own next/prev navigation.
http://drupal.org/node/284
Also, if some strips are large/long (ie. 2000AD rather than dilbert), you could
cut these strips into two or three parts, and group-lightbox those images.
Lightbox would then provide prev/next to navigate the parts of the strip on that node.
Both lightbox and books are also available in D6, although watch out, because
there may not be an upgrade path from D5. I think the book module works quite
differently in D5.
Concerns about Book module
Thanks for your reply, Anti
I have seriously considered using book, because as you said, it has his "previous" and "next" buttons, but I found several problems that make think of not using it:
1. Since the stripes are only one image to be attached I only want nodes to have a title (I wish I couldn't even have a title, though, but it's mandatory and I can't delete it because of drupal's architecture) and an image_field with the attached image. I can't do that for a book because I am already using that module to provide "real" books and I need them to have a body and I don't want them to have "image_field"
2. Navigation works just the oppossite as I would like it to work ("next" on the right and "previous" on the left)
Any other ideas?
By the way, I forgot to mention that I am testing it using "custom pagers" module, but the problem is that pagers only appear when there's a body, and since I don't have any, pagers are not displayed.
Thank you
Take a close look at
Take a close look at epublish: http://drupal.org/project/epublish
It groups nodes into 'publications' kind of like the D5 book module does, except you can put any content type into your 'publication' (like the D6 book module). When viewing a page of a publication (ie. a strip), there is prev/next at the bottom, and again like the book module, each individual strip will have its own user comments.
The 'demonstration' of this module isn't very impressive, but do give it a good look over because it does have features you could use and it will work alongside and augment your current use of books.