By rabidDog on

Not sure where I should look for the information on what I would like to accomplish. I thing that I'm trying to have a Node, that has either a Menu, View to Tabs, with links to additional information (leaning more toward views).

I know what I would like to do, and have an idea of what is needed, just not sure how to implement. I'm pretty sure the answer is views (it usually is).

I want to create a movie database. I would first create a Content Type that will display some general info. I would then want some kind of tabbed section (menus, quicktabs or views) below the node that displayed teasers of related content (images, video, cast & Crew...). I think all this could be accomplished with the use of node reference with Views + attachments.

Now this is where I get a bit fuzzy. If a user clicks on one of the links I want it to go either directly to the content or a listings page if clicked on read more... I believe that the read more would need to be some kind of view (just because, I wouldn't want to need to create the page for each title added) that has some information passed to know what information to display.

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tdimg commented

there are means to embed a view into your content, with panels for example.

Then there's a whole bunch of modules that displays related content:
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rabidDog commented

I've seen a way to embed a views at, http://drupal.org/node/246742, which I have used in testing. I have not been able to get this to work as the default for my tests, I usually end up needing to copy and paste the text each time.

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tdimg commented

The modules I listed above, or Views & Panels or Views & CCK (http://drupal.org/project/viewfield) are the easiest methods to embed views if you need this functionality for one specific content type.

You can of course use the php code you linked to above, but then I would put it in your content type template so that you don't have to copy&paste it each time. Afaik, there's a better documented page about that in the advanced help (need the module or just browse to the help files of views).

Insert view is another alternative to use, but again not if you've got to insert the same view in every node of the same content type
http://drupal.org/project/insert_view