By Kit_Hally on

ok here is a link
http://cw.abetterplacetowrite.com/index.php/fanfiction/showlist?site_id=1

im wondering if something like that can be accomplice d with just drupal it self?

is it possible to set up a writing thing like that and if so how?
not sure if i explain it well enough but having a part on once drupal site where people can place stuff in categories/genres etc.

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mm167’s picture

mm167 commented

oh..a piece of cake for drupal ....

tell us
1) what is your skill level of using drupal? do u know content type and views?
2) any special request for such web site?

then we may give u a step by step guide.

OR, u may find out the answer here http://drupal.org/handbooks

good day.

Kit_Hally’s picture

Kit_Hally commented

lol now if it was only a piece of cake for me to? winks

hi mm167 thanks 4 responding !

im not that skilled, i have played around with drupal and im not afraid to dive in to the theming stuff and change things etc.

but when it comes to cck / panels and views i get (a bit)overwhelmed
on our test site i do have :

views-6.x-2.6.
advanced_help-6.x-1.2.
simpleviews-6.x-1.0.

but i have not really done anything with it yet
i also saw other modules that might help out but there not ready for 6x or are not stable versions yet ( category is one of them)

i do know content types

the idea is to have it as part of the site integrated not as main thing
like personal blog and the forum or a chat just an option to use etc.

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myfandoms.com commented

Why bother?
www.FanFicFan.com

We give it away for free. Contact us with any questions. We can help you customize the appearance and sizing for your site.

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profjk commented

*subscribing*

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myfandoms.com commented

this is easy to integrate into a drupal site - just create a shell template and wrap it like we did with this joomla site:
http://fanfiction.myfandoms.com/index.php/fanfiction/showlist?site_id=60

you can use your own url, of course like http://criminalfantasy.com/

info @ myfandoms.com

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Kit_Hally commented

hi there,

i can tell you why i do bother ?
the fanfic is to be used ( at this moment still ) for fanfic only.
the link i gave is suppose to be for other genres etc.
i have subscribed and was waiting to find out how things are standing with it etc . but so far i never did get a notice from that one.

personally i only need the software from there, i prefer if and when possible to just have thing running on our own site. ( more control that way?)

i do know and think that the software
or the original that it was based on and developed from (by the same people)rocks and is very good !
and i for one can sure recommend it to any one.

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myfandom / fanfic and a better place, are all part of the same thing:
Fandom Entertainment LLC.

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mtsanford commented

Yes. It looks like Drupal is entirely appropriate to leverage for that kind of site, and probably a very good choice. Don't expect it to be easy though.

Read Using Drupal, and Leveraging Drupal, which deals specifically with creating a writers workshop site as a running example.

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Kit_Hally commented

thanks for the book titles !

is anything ever easy?
winks

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mm167 commented

what's the status?

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Kit_Hally commented

if you mean have i been able yet to get something like that to work?
unfortunately not
then the status is :not fixed.... still open
im still waiting and hope for a answer from you mm167 because i really think that having it the drupal way would give me more control and flexibility then with the link i gave that has it limitations as to what one is allowed use it for and can be embedded but not sure if one can integrate it completely with drupals db / names etc.

so yes i am still looking for and hoping on a on line answer on how to do it with drupal it self.

status: still open

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mm167 commented

let's first review what u want and how drupal may do it for u.

basic request: allow users to post their stories.
also basic request : allow other user to read those stories.
still basic request : index those stories such that user may find them easily.

1. Drupal uses the concept - "content type" to allow users post their stories.
* there's a content type "story" in Drupal core. Don't mix up this with your content type.

what u need is make a new content type (for example ) "MyStory", and setup the permission such that users may post their stories by using this content type.

2. to allow other users to read those stories
what u need to do is setting up right permission.

.... u may try this in your development durpal and they are very easy to make.

the 3rd request is not that easy.
The total solution is using "views" but that may be too difficult to a newbie in the first week.

so, let's try a simple solution as demo and back to the views solution a little bit later.

simple solution : set the "MyStory" content type, by default, promote to the front page.

If u do so, in the front page, u will see all the MyStory contents, listed one by one (only as teaser).

up to now, all the 3 basic requests are DONE (of course in a very very simple way).

using "views" ...........to be cont'

good luck

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Kit_Hally commented

hi mm167,
first of all let me start with thanking you for helping me out,
i really appreciate it!

ok I did everything you told me to do
however be for we continue with views i do have one question about this part that we just did though?

in order to have different genres what would you suggest;
is it better to create a different content type for each genre
or
is it better to have one content type for it and then split things up with taxonomy's etc.

p.s. im looking forward to the views part
winks