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By dcooper on
can i create seperate sections within drupal as a whole? i'd like to setup a newspaper style site... say a FRONT PAGE - with its own syndicated news... then within the navagation menu i'd like to have links to other sections - like a sports section, and a local news section? with each section possessing the ability for users to publish 'stories' to this sections FRONT PAGE?
say someone goes to my site, the MAIN FRONT PAGE comes up - lets say this FRONT PAGE has a bunch of stories on it's FRONT PAGE - there is also a navagation bar on the right hand side with an link to goto a sports section, or local news section, etc. when someone clicks the local news section it takes them to a whole new page that has its very own stories option, when someone clicks the link to 'create content -> story' this would create a story within the sports section's front page.
how would i go about setting that up in drupal? is this called a _node_?
if someone can suggest a section for me to read, or help answer this question, it'd be apprectiated. thanks in advance!
dcooper
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Taxonomy
You can use taxonomy to set up such a categorized newspaper. You might need to develop some own code to display the navigation block and the like... The taxonomy will provice you with the categorization optoins and the frontpages for the different categories.
seperate drupal install
heheh - i think your suggestion to use taxonomy hits the nail on the head, but ya know what - im pretty dense when reading all the documenation on taxonomy, etc! i've given a few hours into trying to learn about taxonomy in drupal, but have given up ... i will come back to it at a later time =)
now, i have setup a seperate installation of drupal, into a directory called drupal-tech/ this will be a site with technical inforation. i used the suggestions from the drupal admin manual for 'Table Prefix (and sharing tables across instances)'. this seemed to work too! in the new install of drupal-tech i modified database/database.mysql and changed stuff like 'CREATE TABLE access' to 'CREATE TABLE tech_access'. i was able to import it into my mysql db, and all was well.
now i am stuck at this one part - i have drupal-tech/ install sharing the users with my main install of drupal, by editing the includes/conf.php of my drupal-tech install. in there i have the following;
$db_prefix = array(
"default" => "tech_",
"users" => "",
"sessions" => "",
"role" => "",
"authmap" => ""
);
[the reason it doesn't have master, or anything is because i installed drupal originally without the intent to create another installation of drupal.]
so i can login with my admin account to the new drupal-tech/ install, post content, etc. that part works GREAT, BUT the issue im having is that anonymous people cant view any of the content on the site, they can view the RSS feeds, but no content.
here's my settings drupal-tech/ install accounts settings ;
permissions;
anonymous user authenticated user
access comments x x
access content x x
access news feeds x x
create forum topics x x
create polls x x
create stories x x
post comments x x
post comments without approval x x
search content x x
vote on polls x x
these accounts settings are the exact same as the original install of drupal, by ii put them the same just to make sure. with the original install of drupal, anonymous users can view content still, and everything. it works fine. i am not sure what else to do, ive tried many different things, yet only the admin login can view content on the drupal-tech/ site.
can anyone provide suggestions here?
thanks
dcooper
access denied
btw - the message that is displayed when anyone who tries to view the drupal-tech/index.php site without having a login sees the RFF feeds on the right, but cannot sees the message where the content that should be displayed as 'you are not authorized to access this page'.
just thought i'd throw that in there =)
dcooper