By Jimmy Neutron on

I'm trying to create a structure for my website similar to this one at www.tv.com, where you can click on 'All Shows' in the navigation to then browse shows by category or just list an A-Z of all shows.

Once you click on a show, you immediately get a Summary page, with further links to Episodes, Cast, News etc. The 'Episodes' page can be browsed by Season using a table in 'Episode List.'

I would be very grateful for any pointers that could be offered with this one. I have been going round in circles for the past 4 days trying to get something looking remotely similar. The category structure I have set up so far looks like this:

Sections [Vocabulary]
Shows [Term]
-- Show 1 [Term]
---- Summary [Term]
---- Episodes [Term]
-- Show 2 [Term]
---- Summary [Term]
---- Episodes [Term]

Season [Vocabulary]
Season [Term]
-- Season One [Term]
-- Season Two [Term]

I am at a loss with regards to creating pages or books to best achieve the simialr sort of navigation that the aforementioned website (www.tv.com) has. :(

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.6.x

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Jaza’s picture

Jaza commented

Try using the category module - it is a new module that combines the features offered by book and taxonomy, and that allows you to do things not possible with either of its predecessors.

Here's a suggested category structure that you can set up, based on the structure that you posted already (and not much different to it, really):

Shows [Container]
-- Show 1 (has summary and episode list) [Category]
-- Show 2 [Category]

Seasons [Container]
-- Season 1 (has episode list) [Category]
-- Season 2 [Category]

I don't really see how you could get the summary and episodes on separate pages, using Drupal - you'd have to do a bit of hacking to get it looking like that.

By using the category module, you get an actual page for each container (whereas vocabularies in taxonomy have no pages), and you can give body text to any category or container (such as a summary of each show). Category_menu will generate a menu tree to match the structure, thus providing your site with navigational elements.

Jeremy Epstein - GreenAsh

Jeremy Epstein - GreenAsh

Jimmy Neutron’s picture

Jimmy Neutron commented

Hey Jeremy,

Thanks for your reply. I seem to recall that the Category module does not work with Drupal 4.6 ?

I tried installing 4.7 on my server but it complained of errors in the settings.php and bootstrap.inc files, even after removing unnecessary line breaks.