How to give a content type its own page?

usmanz - December 3, 2008 - 23:11

I have defined multiple content types on my site: http://netsafire.com
I list all the posts of each content in the form of blocks on main page. Now I have realized if those lists grow larger, I'll have to archive them and show only latest posts on front page.

I want to do this by providing a page to each content type just like "blog" content type (http://netsafire.com/blog), where content is organized on the form of a book or archives.

Is this possible in Drupal?

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Hi usmanz, that depends. You

netrift - December 3, 2008 - 23:21

Hi usmanz,

that depends. You can use VIEWS module to create your pages and custom views.

Or if you're writing your own module then

<?php
function mymodule_display($node_type){

    $types = node_get_types('names');
    drupal_set_title($types[$node_type]);

    $SQL = "SELECT N.nid, N.sticky, N.created
            FROM {node} N
            WHERE N.status = 1 AND N.type = '%s'
            ORDER BY N.sticky DESC, N.created DESC
    ";
    $result = pager_query($SQL, variable_get('default_nodes_main', 10),0, NULL, $node_type);

    $output = '';

    $num_rows = FALSE;
    while($node = db_fetch_object($result)){
        $output .= node_view(node_load($node->nid), 1);
        $num_rows = TRUE;
    };
    if ($num_rows){
        $output .= theme('pager', NULL, variable_get('default_nodes_main', 10));
    };

    return $output;

};
?>

You'll just need to create a menu path and use this function as the callback.
don't forget to pass the node type int he path (i.e http://www.mywebsite.com/display/blog

where "blog" is the node type.

good luck

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Thank you. My website is

usmanz - December 3, 2008 - 23:48

Thank you.
My website is based on Drupal 6.4 and the last time I installed Views module (about two months ago), it crashed.

Is there any known issue of D 6.4 with "Views"? Has it been resolved?

You are scaring me by posting that code as I'm not a developer :) Thanks for your time.

A new sapphire on the net - NetSafire.com

Heh, sorry about the code

netrift - December 4, 2008 - 00:09

Heh, sorry about the code thing.

I think views is pretty stable now. Since you're not a developer, I'd recommend installing views or paying someone to write you a quick module. The above code I posted is pretty much the entire module and will do what you want it.

good luck.

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Thanks again, Can you tell

usmanz - December 4, 2008 - 00:27

Thanks again,

Can you tell me the specific place where this code should be placed? After or before which tag of which file? or if its a file itself, where to place it?

I will try views again, thanks for your time.