Need some suggestions for a community site/user contributed articles.
I've used Drupal for a while now but I've come to a stumbling block for my next site. I want to use Drupal (I'd rather just stick to one cms and not run into the upgrade headaches when dealing with several cms's) but I could use a forum system like SMF (Which I used quite a bit before and liked it) BUT its was a pain to template and modify to my liking.
This new site will be a community site/forum with user contributed articles (project journals) A user will post a story/forum post in one of three to five categories (Categories will be for different manufacturers).
The user will then post a write up and attach images BUT this is where I ran into a problem with Drupal nodes and comment system. ATM I'm testing out Node Images and CCK ImageField for attaching images to nodes but there's no similar way to attach images to comments. The problem is that I want users to keep updates as comments in the same original node with out having to keep updating (revising) the original node as each project will have a time span of 11+ weeks. Unfortunately since comments are not nodes there's no nice way to attach images like Node Images/CCK ImageField into comments.
If I went with a SMF like forum system then the user could just create a new comment under the original forum post and attach the images to that.
So I'm looking for ideas on how I could solve this. Maybe use the Blog module for the contributed articles?
Thanks
Asset
I use Asset and my users, which aren't techincal for the most part, have figured it out. It works on both nodes and comments.
Michelle
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I'm looking for folks to help me out by posting in my Coulee Region forums. You don't need to live in the area; there's plenty of general forums. But please, no Drupal support questions. :)
Paging
Using this module will suffice for now http://drupal.org/project/paging I'll just have to tell my users to update the article post every time they add a new page.
CHURCH OF XENU
Ok so after finding paging
Ok so after finding paging for nodes I tired out several way of inserting/managing images into nodes without any luck. What I need is a way to attach images to nodes and for the user to be able to insert the image anywhere into the story but also for those images to be deletable if the node is deleted.
CHURCH OF XENU
There is two possible ways to
There is two possible ways to add images in comments:-
1. Enable a wysiwyg Editor for comments and upload images through it.You have to set content filter to full HTML for this.
2. Use Node comments (http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment) Module.