Create a subsite without 'multisites'.

Posted by sunchaser on July 31, 2009 at 10:19am

Hi,

I have a Drupal website with a main navigation : HOME | SHOPS | POLICY | CONTACT
When a user clicks on SHOPS they are taken to the URL : www . mainurl . com/shops
In there they can chose to click on a shop (we have 13 locations)

Let's say the surfer clicks on our New York flagship store.
This what I would like to see happen:

URL change to http://www . mainurl . com/NewYorkshop
to have a completely separate CSS / bg / colorscheme / SUBNAVIG : LOCATION | MANAGER | CONTACT | BRANDS

I have attached a wireframe of what it should look like http://i707.photobucket.com/albums/ww76/belgianwolfie/drupal.jpg

Some people suggested to go through Taxonomy but I'm too junior to even grasp that concept.
Would anyone be so kind as to layout the path to follow to achieve this setup ? I see this question popping up many times on the boards here , but never has there been any conclusive solution (othe rthatn Multisites, which is too heavy for my purposes)

thank you
Sunchaser

Comments

If you were willing to use

Posted by nirbhasa on July 31, 2009 at 1:50pm

If you were willing to use subdomains (ny.mainurl.com) then Domain Access can give you seperate theme, blocks, menu and taxonomy per subdomain

http://drupal.org/project/domain

If you want to keep subfolders, you could try the sections module, but i havent looked at it

http://drupal.org/project/sections

This module may

Posted by Alan D. on July 31, 2009 at 1:50pm

This module may help:

http://drupal.org/project/themekey

Then just code up multiple menu blocks that are tied to the shop URLs. You can add a simple Taxonomy to tag site specific pages to a site. Then use path alias to create the URLs - [shop-term]/[title]

Alan Davison
Back roads somewhere in South America

Attention Alan D

Posted by RonnieD on July 31, 2009 at 2:23pm

Alan could you tell me how you put up the slideshow of different photos on your contact us page on your website

www.caignwebs.com.au

Thanks
RonnieD

A custom scroller

Posted by Alan D. on August 1, 2009 at 1:58am

We implemented a custom module to drive a jquery scroller using jquery.jcarousellite.js We had to modify the JavaScript on the scroller to do what we needed. There are heaps of different options now for view based scrollers that make these really simple to implement without any programming.

Alan Davison
Back roads somewhere in South America

looks good guys

Posted by sunchaser on July 31, 2009 at 9:15pm

gonna investigate more, thanx for the insights.

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