By ckaushalya on

Hi All,

Currently I'm developing a website based on Drupal for my own books oulet. There I have a number of books which is ready to sell and I need to show them as thumbnails (category wise). A breif description and details about the book (such as book title, # of pages, category name, price) are also need to be displayed along with each book in this thumbnail view. I'm not interested in having an online shopping cart at the moment (may be in future), but just to show the books availabl in my store in a nicely arranged manner.

I used to be a Joomla CMS user and now I want to try out the functionalities of Drupal with my new website. I just started trying out drupal and therefore feel like little more help is needed from the community.
Could someone please tell me a suitable module that I can implement the above requirement? Or, will I have to write my own module?

Thanks in advance!
Jini

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VM commented

you can write your own module for it or ....

you could build a new content type called 'book' not to be confused with book page a drupal core content type created by the book module using CCK.module short for Content Creation Kit CCK has quite a few addons and per your desire I'd add the imagfield.module (for the image). Drupal comes stock with the ability to Add a text area "body" field to a new content type, which would give you a place for review or summary of book. There are other CCK addons that provide other fields that you may want to look into with regards to the other features you want to add to this new content type.

All CCK addons are categorized with the CCK module in the CCK category of the downloads area, which can be reached using the downloads tab at the type of every page and scanning the list for the CCK category.

you could then set up the taxonomy (categories) from within Drupal, this is a core feature, and assign those categories to your new content type. I hesitate

My lingering question though is ??
How users of your site, will "purchase" these books from your site, or how you will be notified of a desire for a user to purchase a book, if you aren't using a cart. You will need to explain to us the method you envision before anyone (at least myself) can try to explain how this final piece can be accomplished in a way that you envision it or if it can even be accomplished in a way you envision it, with another module addition.

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test127 commented

I'm not really trying to disuade you from using Drupal for this and you may have already done what I'm going to suggest, but if I were doing a project like this with such a specific goal in mind, I think I would take a good around at what other packages might be available out there for settings up online book stores. "Online bookstore" is such a concrete goal, it seems to me that there must be a software package that already does this and does it just right. Since there is theoretically going to be profit involved, I would consider commercial packages in addition to open source ones. Again, I'm not saying you shouldn't use Drupal, but just make sure you take a look at your options.