By wsteve on

I'm a newby to Drupal and still trying to get my head around it all. I'm using the O'Reilly "Using Drupal" book which is really helpful BUT I still can't make a decision on whether I should be using Taxonomy or CCK. I want users to contribute content (text and one image) within a choice of around 6 categories each of which will have several child categories. All the category options will also be indexed under countries, provinces and cities. Also, site visitors will have the option to search categories using the same indexing system.

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gbrussel’s picture

gbrussel commented

CCK for creating your content type with the text/image, and Taxonomy for tagging/classifying your content.

BradleyT’s picture

BradleyT commented

You could use CCK to design the forms that your users are going to use to create the content. You'd create a custom content type called user_story and put a textarea box, imageupload field, and taxonomy field.

Next you'll want to go to create content and choose user-story to see that it works.

Then you'd probably want to do something with the Views module to automatically get lists of user_story. You can use arguments in views (think URL parameters) so that page like example.com/user-stories/bob automatically shows all stories created by bob.

And finally I'd recommend you create a template file for your user-story nodes. It would be called node-user_story.tpl.php and you have access to the fields of that CCK node type so you can format the text and image however you want it.

wsteve’s picture

wsteve commented

Thanks for your help on this - just these few simple steps has helped a lot.