By rpeters on
I am creating a community driven trip website. Where the user can schedule trips. I also want a trip room wher ethe user can create a trip room that will have the trip which is a content type and a forum blog. I Know i should use a cck for trip room, but I do nto know what is the best appraoch any ideas?
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What would be cool is a
What would be cool is a commute website. Where people can registrer with where they live, where they work, what time they need to be at work, what time they stop work and if they can drive or not. Perhaps with the location module and a handy algorithm the computer can chart possible roots. If it became a large enough community then a person can sign on and say that they need to be somewhere at some time and the computer will find a way to connect them with someone who is going in that direction. (Of course, there are safety issues. Because, there is always one a**#&* )
What do you mean by trip? You might want to explain your idea a little in depth. I have no idea what you driving at... (ha, if it has to do with car trips that's a pun. I'm punning :)
Community Driven website
This is a community driven website. A trip is where people can schedule a location to go and they can have friends who can join this trip. The problem I am having is with the trip room. This must have a blog, forum, gallery, and name of trip. I do not know a cck field to create a blog or create forum in cck any help would be appreciated.
OG is yours
Hi rpeters,
you should try the og module for your trip room.
Cheers
Dirk
organic Groups
Thanks taht worked great!
Have you investigated the
Have you investigated the panels module? I think -- which I get a lot of flack for in the forums -- panels serves some purposes very well, however, because it is so simple to accomplish intricate layouts with it, people over use it. The best way to create a panel style layout is to take a few days and watch all the videos and screencasts on the web and to read the literature on drupal.org about theming tpl.php files (granted you know html and css).
However, there is something that panels is master at -- making a layout of blocks, pages, nodes and views and assigning a "context" to each page. For example, each trip can be a taxonomy term. When a panel page is loaded with the taxonomy term as the "context", panels pass that term into each item on the panel page as an argument. If there is a trip to Boston and someone clicks on Boston (http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_menu), then boston is passed into panels as the context. When panels calls the block it sends 'Boston' to it, on the same page when panels calls a node or a list of people associated with the trip, panels passes 'Boston' as the argument.
If you would like to see an amazing organic group implementation in action - although it might be overkill for what you need- download and install the Open Atrium profile installation for a specimen to dissect. http://openatrium.com/features