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By ekaldany on
Hi everyone,
I am running drupal 6.x and so far I am happy with it's speed and ease of editing the templates.
I am using the pushbutton theme.
I have a few questions:
1) I am trying to categorize my content. so far the only way I can see for someone to view the content on the site (a mix of a forum, pdf's, and some informational pages) is for them to see "recent posts" and then it gives a disorganized melee of content in order of creation... how can I add in maybe a menu at the top that has "PDFs" "Forum" "Articles" etc?
2) With the pdf's, I have like 60 pdf's I want to have available. So far I created my own content category and have been uploading them one at a time but this is cumbersome. Is there a way to just bulk upload them and have them be categorized by file name in a list or something?
3) I am also trying to embed .flv files, these are educational videos for our members. I installed swftools, flashnode, flv player, media player, etc etc (a whole list of stuff) and i can barely get it to embed and play. it embeds, but wont start playing.... very strange. am I walking down the wrong path? Is there an easy way for me to bulk upload flv's and embed them, or to embed them off our sister server which has them all hosted?
Thanks!!
Comments
1) There's a few different
1) There's a few different ways to organize your content. If you use the core taxonomy module, you will automatically have URLS of the format 'http://example.com/taxonomy/term' available for use in menus. If it's a reasonable number of categories, you can create menu items for them manually. Alternatively, you might want to look at the http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_menu and/or http://drupal.org/project/views modules. Views is by far the more flexible and useful. Taxonomy_menu does one thing and does it well.
2) you may want to take a look at the http://drupal.org/project/webfm and/or http://drupal.org/project/dbfm modules.
3) My current pick for this functionality is http://drupal.org/project/swftools and http://drupal.org/project/flashnode modules which you mention. I use them with the http://flowplayer.org player though. Works great. I'm not sure about bulk uploading-- i don't recall a module that facilitates this. You might look at the http://drupal.org/project/emfield module-- it might be able to use the urls from the sister server.
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thanks for the leads... i'll
thanks for the leads... i'll look into / try them out now. I would love to make my own little titlebar at the top (i like doing things myself where possible because the client we are aiming at isn't big on templated looks)... so maybe I can eventually get there.
Thanks.
one more question... i want
one more question...
i want to change the url of my drupal instance...
it's at a subdomain, which is for example called "one.example.com" but i want the subdomain to be "two.example.com"
where do I change the base url within drupal?
I don't believe drupal cares
I don't believe drupal cares about subdomains (the major reason subdomain dev sites are so much better then subdirectory dev sites) itself. Just clear the cache (admin/settings/performance). Of course, any fully qualified manually created links (href="http://one.example.com") will be broken and need to be corrected.
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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Lao Tzu
"God helps those who help themselves." - Ben Franklin
"Search is your best friend." - Worldfallz
I have one more
I have one more question.
for some reason now, when I log out, then go to login, it takes me to a page that says
"Page not found
The requested page could not be found. "
I dont know why this is happening but it isnt logging me in. If i recover my pw, then it lets me change my pw and login...
any help?
it's weird. when i try to
it's weird. when i try to login it takes me to /?q=node/5&destination=node
and i get
"Page not found
The requested page could not be found."
i am thoroughly confused. my sites default page or main page is "node" which is the default. Once i'm in (via resetting my pw link), everything functions properly....
so oddly enough... i finally
so oddly enough... i finally changed the subdomain name and... now logins work perfectly?
so strange. anyway i guess it's fixed....