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By daveslc on
I have drupal 6 installed with cck and many other modules (acquia drupal package).
I have a magazine site that I would like to convert to a cms. Drupal seems like a very flexible choice, but seems to have structure/documentation that is a pain.
I would like to do the following:
1. Create a few custom content types (calendar, address directory, etc)
2. I would like to mass import data to these types. (Node Import http://drupal.org/project/node_import doesn’t work with CCK, so I need a *simple* solution (is anything simple in drupal??). I am perfectly happy to import directly to the database, but don’t know which tables need to be populated or how to set fields such as vid or nid.
3. I would like to mass import stories to nodes in drupal – will Node Import work for this? Can I add taxonomy terms to these at time of import?
4. With taxonomy, is there anyway to use the taxonomy term in the URL (like march2009+storytype)? rather than having to lookup taxonomy terms and translate to numbers?
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Taxonomy in URL
To place taxonomy terms in a URL, install the pathauto module and enable it along with the token and taxonomy modules.
Then in administer > site building > URL Aliases > Automated Alias Settings look for Replacements Patterns under the links titled "Node path settings" and/or "Taxonomy term path settings" where you will find various tokens (in the sqaure brakes) referring to taxonomy vocabularies and terms.