Mr and Mrs Smith?
Hello Drupal Community!
I'm hitting this site now as I seem to have hit a brick wall with Joomla! Not that it isn't a good CMS I'm just not sure it is capable of doing what I want it to do. Having said that I'm not sure that Drupal can either - but it looks like it should be able to.
Essentially I need to make a site like mrandmrssmith.com or travelintelligence.com. In particular I would like to be able to make pages like:
http://www.mrandmrssmith.com/luxury-hotels/new-zealand/auckland/the-boat...
where each tab is a link to a custom content type (reviews, photo gallery, guestbook, offers etc) but only show those links where appropriate for a particular hotel. The category heirarchy will be similar (country > region > hotel) and the collections seem to be handled by simple tagging...?
I suppose what I am looking for is a yes/no answer. Some ideas on how to do this would also be appreciated as I am bit of a noob to Drupal (but I need to get cracking with this....!) - any help much appreciated (truly).
Hi adman :)
Welcome to Drupal :)
Yes I'm pretty confident Drupal can do it. There's always a variety of ways to do anything in Drupal haha... one idea that might be pretty close, though maybe not "quite" the same (in the sense that I believe the tabs would be AJAX tabs rather than separate pages) would be to use CCK Fieldgroup Tabs (it says it's a dev release but I use it fine on sites). To use this you also need CCK. If you go this route, you would make a relatively detailed content entry form with a variety of fields for the content editors to fill in, splitting each main section of data onto a separate AJAX tab (each fieldgroup becomes a tab)... "all" of the data of all the tabs for a given Hotel would actually be part of the same single node, which might (or might not depending on the required content workflow) be a good thing. The tab groups on the data entry form could also then produce tabs of the same data on the front end. This is the simplest method I can think of at the moment, though there are like many other options if this doesn't suffice. Here's a guide I wrote about using Fieldgroup Tabs which may help in part (though also read the module's documentation).
If this method doesn't end up working for your requirements, let me know and I'll try to think of some other ways (e.g. probably to do with tagging like you mentioned, or possibility through use of Node Reference fields... and in most cases paired with Views). It's also possible to have the normal menu system accommodate this, though could end up being more unwieldy (in my opinion). If you do use the menu, then a module such as Menu Block may be valuable in breaking out a specific menu level as a block to be placed into a different region.
Hope this helps a bit.
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I think, you wanna build a site with dynamic content and with Drupal, you can build the one for sure.
What you need to start with are..
1) Required modules: CCK, Views.
2) You have to create custom content type using CCK and related CCK modules
2) Create views and override them to match your requirements ( ohh.... Please read before you do this)
Regards.
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