Business Directory

there were two sites I saw listed:

http://www.punepages.com

http://www.pvlocalfirst.org

http://www.touchlocal.com

http://www.chippewaguide.com

http://profiles.savannahnow.com/real-estate-and-development/Southern-Hom...

sorry if I missed your site. please email me a/your url and I'll add it to the list and keep the thread short.

Perhaps we can work together in listing all the sites that have a directory built in drupal and the functions each one has and create a master list of sites that have directories already and what all the functions.

I have a small project which should be an easy one for a seasoned Drupal developer. Need a small site built and possibly themed (I can deliver crisp clean markup and stylesheet, or the PSDs if you'd rather work from scratch). The design is simple and the functionality has been designed around Drupal to keep it simple and meet an aggressive timeline.

Content types include articles, blog posts with user comment, and Youtube embedded videos. Minimal workflow (authors can publish directly, no editing or staging needed).

I have obviously done something incorrectly and would appreciate any recommendations. I want to set up a Business Directory on my website, I am using Drupal v6.2, Custom Content and Views.

I have created the custom content type, entered a few listings and they show properly in in Admin/Content/Node. The Title I have assigned to each listing is the Business Name.

When I go to Views, the Title field does not show as a choice in the Fields selection. All other fields show up properly and I obviously need the Business name to appear in the custom View.

I am still working on my directory http://justkansas.com.

I have used CCK to create the content type that is listed in the directory. I have a few fields that I would like to make available for paying memberships. I know that we can control the access to CCK fields by roles. But I am looking for a way to theme a node's display according to the author's role.

IF author role=role1 then use this code with all field entries displayed
IF author role=role2 then use this code without a certain field

Is there a known-solution or known-theories for giving users access to change only one story? This would be a way to allow businesses in my directory to update the listings, once I 'prime' them with some sort of startup content.

Example:
I would love to give a login/password to the owner of Drawing Board, so s/he could edit this listing I started for them. They are a lot more artistic than I am, but obviously, I cannot have them touching anything except this one story.
http://montpelierlife.com/?q=node/35

I know there is a discussion going on here about building a business directory module. However, I also see other people are already doing this with existing modules. Could I fairly easily build a directory like this: http://www.pastigo.com/sites-amp-attractions-2.html using Drupal's existing modules? This directory was done in Joomla! using Mosets Tree. I've also been looking at using SOBI2 with Joomla!, but it's not updated yet to run with J! 1.5 and not sure when that will happen. Plus, I'm trying to see if there is a better way to organize the data.

I originally posted this (http://drupal.org/node/220675) in the drupal.org post installation forum, but I think it belongs here more...

Hi, I'm trying to decide what modules I need, and how to organize and implement something I'm sure has been done before, but I could not find it listed in the cookbook, and I'm not sure what keywords to search for...

The idea is I want a site that displays a directory of different instances of clubs. but each club is made up of the same parts....

Thank you for all the offers. This job offer is no longer available.

Hello, I am in need of someone to do some data entry. Reposting html pages into Drupal. I will have example posts. The categories will exist already. I have about 500 pages. I need 50 per person. Will pay 0.85 per page via paypal. You must reproduce the URLs exactly like it exists on my html website

Anyone experienced with Drupal based B2B trade lead directories ?

Something like Alibaba.com or EC21.com

Thanks

Marcel
http://www.Motorology.com
http://Tinyhttp.com

I was doing some research and came across these 2 directories. I thought might be inspirational. Please add more

thanks

www.touchlocal.co.uk
www.localbrit.co.uk

I see people are considering using cck_field_permission to distinguish between basic and premium fields on a listing node.

Using this setup does a user buy premium access for a single listing or once they get premium role they can post as many premium listings as they feel like

Hi all,

I'm wondering what methods you folks are using to actually structure/categorize your directory tree?

Are you using a hierarchical taxonomy and applying it to your nodes?

Tyswan, I'm wondering if you could tell me how you are creating the linked directory tree on the home page of your directory index page?

http://www.bluemts.health-harmony.com.au/directory-index

Many thanks!
Mike

Hi All,

Would like to ask for opinion and suggestion on the module to use for linking, parenting, referencing (or whatever people called it) two different nodes.

For example, you have a node type called business for where you will have fieldset for the business like address, phone, fax etc
and you have another node type called photo where you will have the pictures of the business.

questions:
1. to link both node type (business, photo) together and able to display as a tab.
2. to upload images to the nodes with best that allow batch upload and place caption (title) to it.

I wonder if any of you would like to set up the directory for me ... of course I would pay for it.

If anyone wants to do it, please let me know how much would you like to get paid for the job.

Thanks
Manuel

Hi, I have been working on an Drupal implementation for a Business Directory for some time now and are a bit stuck on how different user roles could be set up.

I've been following this topic for a while now and was curious where things stand. Do you have specific guidelines, modules, procedures, etc? NEW MODULE???

And what about the basic listing criteria? ( name, address, phone...)

I am not much of a programmer, but would like to contribute where possible. It sounds like this could be a key feature for Drupal down the road.

I'm at a fork in the road and looking for input. Should I limit each node to one location? My thoughts so far:

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I know many of you are interested in having different levels of listings with the user paying for premium listings. This is certainly crucial for me and something that I have spent most of my time working on. The object being that a premium member can add more details then a basic member and their listing would be placed above the basic listings.

I have tested the following modules for suitability of collecting payment from users:
1. Pay per node (part of ecommerce)
2. Paypal node (part of ecommerce)
3. LG Paypal (not part of ecomerce).

There are two main ways of approaching this:

OpenResort - www.openresort.org started out as a business directory, and has evolved into a booking engine. For the purpose of a business directory our module works great. Check it out.

I'm interested in hearing thoughts about filling your directory up with information. There's three approaches I can think of:

1) Build the structure and wait for people to add their own businesses

2) Get out the phone book and do it yourself (or hire someone)

3) Contact businesses and encourage them to either give you info or do it themselves

I've been thinking about what should go in an expanded listing versus a paid listing. On the one hand, I would like as much information as possible in the listing to make it useful to my users. On the other, it would be nice to be able to charge for an expanded listing to help pay for the site and people are only going to pay if the expanded listing is beneficial to them. So where do I draw the line?

Here are my current thoughts:

BASIC
Name
Location (Mapped)
Phone number
Website
Email
Description
Hours

Thought I would mention that I too am doing some business directory work in Wisconsin - A little north of the Coulee Region site. It's constantly a work in progress
http://www.chippewaguide.com

Using cck, views, gmap module, ecommerce, etc.

I am trying to build my first Drupal directory. Building a basic directory using CCK and Views seems easy enough. I am have trouble with figuring out the best way to charge users to post certain nodes.

What I ideally want is for some users to be able to pay to get their entry to the top of the list. So, this would mean that the node would become "sticky" once the user has paid a fee. I can't seem to figure out a way to do that.

I am going to try to create a Business Directory using Dupral and existing modules.

I'm not experienced with Dupral (I've only played around a little bit), so I know it won't be easy.

I'll follow the advice here and the other threads that talk about it. I don't have loads of time to do this so it’s going to take a while. Hopefully this thread will help others too.

Some work towards a Business Directory may already have been addressed by the recently released Openresort Community Edition
http://drupal.org/project/openresort

If someone would like to volunteer to look at that implementation, it may be a reasonably simple task of pulling out the relevant code and wrapping it up in an independent module.

Welcome, Group purpose and all that...

This group is dedicated to addressing some of the interest in a Business Directory, brought up in the following Drupal Threads:
http://drupal.org/node/3478
http://drupal.org/node/130020
Drupal business directory module - call to action
How to create Yellow Pages Website

As I was #2 is asking for this on drupal.org (Jan 2004) I figured I should weigh in on what I have done (and not done). The picture has changed a bit from when I first was looking.

Let me say that I have a business directory running on http://www.NicaPlaza.com. It is using Joomla and sobi2 rather than Drupal. It is clearly not the ultimate solution but there were some reasons for the choice. I feel we can all learn from what I have and don't have.

First, here are some basic requirements

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Mine is still a work in progress, but you can see it here:

http://couleeregiononline.com/directory

I'm using taxonomy, views, CCK, and custom theming for the over all directory. Fivestar for rating entries.

I plan on using the field permissions module to make some fields available only to paid listing as well as have some fields for admin use, but haven't gotten to that, yet. For a simple enhanced listing, I'll use the sticky option to put the items at the top and them them slightly different.