Extended Profile Custom Field
Hello all,
First of all, please excuse my noob experience with Drupal! The past few days i have been searching for a custom extended profile and or help in regards to it, but quite frankly im not sure what direction i should be looking.
I will try to break it down for easier understanding on what im trying to do.
Site Purpose: An automotive website for users to show / list / compare parts and other details about their cars.
Module Objective: Allow users on their "profile page" (it doesnt have to be the legit profile page maybe.. a garage page?) to add multiple vehicles and add modifications to each car.
Concerns: To keep the database / site more organised i wish that the "cars" available are pulled from a list, same as the modifications. I understand that can be a big list but im starting out with one model of car first.
I was talking with a friend who is a developer in DRUPAL but unfortunately he does not have much time to spend helping remotely as he is deeply involved in a current project. He did suggest using taxonomies and content types, however he left me off their to twiddle my thumbs wondering where to head next. I was snooping around and people were suggesting such things as "extended profile" fields but that was to no avail.
Maybe im heading at this totally the wrong way, but im open to any suggestions. I am a fluent developer and COULD create an app by myself but i NEED to learn drupal as a personal goal. I would be content if someone posted a link for me to investigate further into the subject!
If there is already a module out there for this, feel free to torch me in my newb suit :)
Thanks,
Jon
Edited by: VM; Moved to appropriate forum
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don't use profiles for this. I don't see the need.
Create a garage content type with CCK.module and it's field addons'
use taxonomy to create categories and subcategories.
example:
make -> model -> year -> parts
make = Ford, Government Motors so on so forth
For something as comples as an auto parts listing you will have to be very specific about your taxonmy.
a module that you may want to investigate is the hierarchal_select.module for handling taxonomy choices and display.
views.module exposed filters will also come in handy.
taxonomy documentation = http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/taxonomy
heriarchal_select = http://drupal.org/project/hierarchical_select
views = http://drupal.org/project/views
cck = http://drupal.org/project/cck
cck category for field addon modules = http://drupal.org/project/modules?filters=tid:88&solrsort=sort_title asc
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Thanks for the speedy reply! The only reason i thought about profiles was each car would be managed by the owner and no one else. Again, im a noob when it comes to this!
I currently have views, CCK installed however when looking at that "heriarchal_select" (that is almost exactly what i want) its only avaiable in 5.x? :( Will it work on 6.x?
At the moment i have created two different taxonomy "vocab" lists.
Cars and Modifications
Cars' sub category goes as such:
Modifcations' sub category's are:
I want the user to "add a car" and then be able to have a series of drop down boxes. The first one would be "Type" > "Brand" > "Item" then clicking submit to add it to a list. If there are multiple cars in someones posession they can have full mod-list's listed.
If the top two "vocab" lists are not broken down enough i can easily modify them as im just starting this. I guess im not clear on how to set this up without proper training and im the one to dive in head first. Ill take a look at the CCK + cat type + views and see what i can whip up!
Thanks again, keep them suggestions / help coming! I appriciate all of it.
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There is a 6.x-dev version of hierarchal_select . I've not used it, simply know of it.