Genealogy Site
chamac45 - March 5, 2009 - 14:34
I'm playing around with a genealogy site. I've created a forum and a photo gallery. I think it would be neat to have a place where people could enter obituaries and then display them along with a picture of the deceased on individual nodes. Any ideas on how I might accomplish this.
Also I am interested in some sort of document management module so that people could upload PDF files. Does such a type thing exist?
Any ideas or hints from people who have done genealogy sites would be welcome. I'd love to see some links to your genealogy sites.
Thanks!
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For obituaries you could create a new content type and use the image or imagefield modules to add images-- use whatever you've chosen for your photo gallery.
For document management you can enable the core upload module and users will then be able to attach the PDF files to nodes. If you want them searchable, see the search_files module.
I'm looking to do a genealogy site myself in the near future and will probably use the http://drupal.org/project/tngintegrate module.
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Thanks for the suggestions.
Thanks for the suggestions. If I go the content route I assume there is a way to display all content of that type so I can have a page that shows all the names and then you would click on a name to go to a page that displays the obituary and picture?
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Yes, by default drupal will create urls of the form "site.com/taxonomy/term/tid" where the "tid" in your case will be the id # of the term relating to a particular family. For more friendly urls I would take a look at the pathauto and views modules. Views will also let you create many different types of listings on various criteria and assign them to friendly urls. For a good video on how these modules work together see Creating Hackable URLs (Index Aliases) Using Pathauto and Views. It's for d5 so the UI looks a little different, but the concepts are the same.
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Genmod Integration
I've started new project:
http://drupal.org/project/genmod
Developers are welcome