By kamikazeinc on

I'm just starting out with drupal so any help is appreciated.

I'd like to use drupal for a movie link site. The basic setup is to post a movie with the name as a node with an image field for the movie cover box image, a five star rating, node reference for the date the movie was released so that movies of the same year and month can be displayed
, fields for the movie genres, tags and of course description. I know all of these requirements can be handled by cck and views. The movie genres fields will be used to display movies of that genre so I'm assuming it would be a node reference and using views I could get the desired effect. Since only the admin will add genres to a movie I think I can have multiple node reference options.
Similar for tags but I'm not sure how I would allow users to add multiple tags to the movie.

I'd also like the ability to add multiple links on the movie page with a vote up/down widget for each link. The way I assumed it would work is by use of a different content type that has a link field and allows the vote up/down widget. After that I'm just lost.

Thanks

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matt_harrold commented

Regarding movie genres ... try to leverage the built in Taxonomy system in preference to a custom content type and node reference. There are ways to make the taxonomy/term pages look very pretty, and you could still create a "GenreExtraInfo" content type and set up your term pages to always show this content in the header, a block, or wherever else you might need it (if a GenreExtraInfo node exists for that Genre term).

Regarding movie ratings ... check out Voting API (http://drupal.org/project/votingapi)

Then you can use one (or more) of these to add ratings/likes/etc:

http://drupal.org/project/vote_up_down
http://drupal.org/project/is_useful
http://drupal.org/project/plus1
http://drupal.org/project/fivestar

Assuming you've made a CCK type called "Movie", two vocabularies (Genre ... multiple select, and Tags ... free tagging), installed the Voting API and desired voting methods (up/down, fivestar are both really good), making your Movie Site is really only a matter of tailoring the multitude of options at your disposal via the admin screens.

If you haven't already tried it out, the Panels module (combined with Taxonomy, CCK and Views) makes light work of complex layouts.

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kamikazeinc commented

Thanks Matt,

I hadn't even looked at taxonamy yet. It makes adding the genres and the tags much easier. I can even use it to categorize by release date. I started to take a look at views but not panels. I'm not sure how to use either at the moment. My main problem now is adding multiple links for each movie. I know I can just have multiple link fields for the movie content type, but no idea how to place vote up/down for each link. Is there a way to connect the voting api to each link field?

Thanks