By rarebit on

Hi,

I'm still searching the modules section, but i'm also wondering if it's achievable natively.

Basically i'm wanting to create a list of categories and allow each user to create a business profile, and then for them to associate with various categories. Also, some kind of specific directory search.

Can this be done naturally, or are there any modules you might suggest me to look at.

P.S. I used to have a few Drupal sites a few years ago (4.x ?), but they lapsed, so i'm doing a refresher type thing...

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

There is the http://drupal.org/project/ed_classified module, but I would venture to say most of these type of sites are being built with the http://drupal.org/project/cck and http://drupal.org/project/views modules.

pisco23’s picture

pisco23 commented

Hi,

not sure what you mean by "a list of categories" - is this referring to taxonomy or just to information about the companies?

One answer to your question might be to use CCK for building a Business Profile content type, with the CCK inputs as either text (select list) or taken from a pre-built taxonomy, and then set up a faceted search - which is wonderfully powerful - probably best combined with views for the output. you won't have a standard 'directory' structure, but will have a great database of businesses

geo96929’s picture

geo96929 commented

Hi!

I'm looking for a solution to this too and am willing to collaborate. I am wanting to dev a directory of businesses for my local area/region - because Google and Yahoo do not cover these areas well enough. I have found plugins for Joomla, but I do not like Joomla's restrictiveness - and have all but given up on them completely.

Can someone elaborate on the tasks needed to build this using Drupal 6.x core, CCK, and whatever? Or, if the instructions (recipe) are too laborious, give us links to tutorials - or videos, if at all possible?

Cheers!