By krio on

About five years ago I started a small news site, taught myself some php, built a home grown cms, etc. etc. Well, it grew to about 50,000 visitors a month and probably a thousand pages and now it is time to take it to the next level.

I think I can get my head around Drupal with some effort. Here is my question:

Is there a way to enter a name, article title, date published, etc and build a call on different pages that arranges the same data but in a different order?

IOW, I have a date index, subject index, and author index. Right now I populate those pages by hand (cut and paste). It gets tiresome. It was no problem when the site was small, but doesn't really work anymore. Is there a way to enter the data once, and then build, say, the subject index page so that the info is called into it and I don't have to hand code the info in?

I want to only enter the relevant data once (ie: author name, date published, subject category) on the posting page, and then have the index pages display that data in a specified order.

The only other way to do this it seems is to get into mysql programming, which I don't want to do. I'd rather do a site redo and start fresh leaving my old site as is, and build drupal along side it although to the reader it will appear seamless (I think and hope). I know Wordpress really well and don't want to hack it to the level that would be required.

Can this be done?

GK.

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cayenne’s picture

cayenne commented

Okay, I guess my job in this forum is to give the same answer to everybody. So you get it too.

Views + CCK.

Install the Content Module (Content Construction Kit) and create a content type that has the fields you want.

Install the NODE IMPORT module to upload gazillions of nodes from a .csv file. You can create a .csv file, I am presuming.

THEN install the views module and make a list of that content type. Add sortable table headings and exposed filters (yes, you will need to look up how to do that).

Tadaaa! Easy as pi!

This will make you a happy and satisfied person, at one with the universe and kind to small animals.

:)

krio’s picture

krio commented

I don't know about being one with the universe but the rest might work!

In any case, you've pointed me in the right direction and I am grateful. Thanks.

scoutbaker’s picture

scoutbaker commented

This is a duplicate of http://drupal.org/node/633424. Please don't post duplicates.