Is there a list of web sites that already have a business directory being used in drupal?

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drupalNEW's picture

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.

We might be able to request a copy of the code for the functions (plug-ins) and build a phenomenal master directory that we all build use and share together.

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pvlocalfirst

Z2222's picture

Pioneer Valley Local First is Drupal. The search box searches local businesses. (CCK 'business' nodes)

Mine

michelle's picture

Mine is a long ways from being finished but a lot of people seem to like it: Coulee Region directory.

Michelle


See my Drupal articles and tutorials or come check out the Coulee Region

ibsTeam.net

gemini's picture

I just moved my hobby directory to Drupal - http://www.ibsteam.net - it is still in the works and a lot of things need to be done. The best examples would be - Real Estate USA Section states like Florida, California and Arizona.

vBulletin Forum integration

chowzer's picture

Nice site! In your experience, was integrating a vBulletin forum into Drupal seamless? Do you have a single sign-on system or do users have to log in separately from the main drupal site?

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michelle's picture

Their "read me" post says:

"I would like to make a note that our Forum and Real Estate Directory are two independently running systems, which means that you still have to register in the forums in order to become a member even if you're registered directory member."

So no single sign on.

Curious why they went with a vb license for such a small forum. I can understand it for huge forums but one that small could have easily been handled with Drupal.

Sorry, going terribly off topic... LOL! Forums on the brain...

Michelle


See my Drupal articles and tutorials or come check out the Coulee Region

@chowzer - Michelle is

gemini's picture

@chowzer - Michelle is correct - vB is not integrated into Drupal.

@Michelle - the forums were there since 2003, originally it was based on phpBB. I had multiple problems with phpBB like optimizing URLs and it was hacked a few times. I mentioned in the forum that at some point I will buy a better application, and the one I really liked was vBulletin. One of the forum members actually went ahead and bought a single license for me. That's how I got vB :) Now, since I'm not developing forum actively, there was no reason for updating the license, and I can't integrate it into Drupal, because the forum's version is too outdated for any current vB to Drupal integration modules.

Makes sense

michelle's picture

That's understandable. If you ever decide to pull the forums into Drupal, I think there's a vb to Drupal converter.

Anyway, this has gone terribly off topic. I'll stop now. LOL!

Michelle


See my Drupal articles and tutorials or come check out the Coulee Region

http://www.touchlocal.com/ using Drupal?

BartVB's picture

Are you sure http://www.touchlocal.com/ is using Drupal? Can't find any indication of that? They also have a job posting for a Ruby on Rails/Java programmer :)

The site looks pretty good though...

Don't think so

michelle's picture

I couldn't find any sign of it being Drupal, either.

Michelle


See my Drupal articles and tutorials or come check out the Coulee Region

It's not Drupal...

awasson's picture

It's running on Mongrel HTTP server and using Ruby on Rails.
Nice site!

Help converting directory site to Drupal

chowzer's picture

Where can I get help in converting my existing hobby directory site to a Drupal site?

Another one to include

PeterZ's picture

Many functions are still in development, but http://www.GlobalDoctorOptions.com is essentially a directory site.

preetinder's picture

As there are many requests by people looking for good business directory implementations using Drupal, I think we should include these websites in Group info box as people landing on this group can directly visit and check these websites. They can then contact the developers or post request here accordingly.

Romanian business directory

kerberos's picture

This is a bit more international (Romanian only at this point), but we recently built a Romanian focused business directory on Drupal 6. We found that there are not that many existing modules that did exactly what we wanted, so we ended up writing quite a bit of custom modules for the site:

Urbo.ro

We used our own mapping module, custom Solr for search and our own login system. We'll be writing a writeup summarizing our experience when we find a bit more time (the site is still in beta and we are tweaking the last few details)

-Daniel
Adulmec

Very nice site! By chance are

pkcho's picture

Very nice site! By chance are you planning to release the modules?

Can't wait to read your write up.

Thanks.

Module release

kerberos's picture

Thanks for the compliment.

The problem is that most of the modules are very custom for what we needed for this site. We are planning on releasing a few more focused directory sites soon and we will generalize some of the modules for those and then hopefully release them.

Best,

-Daniel

RVParking.com

michelle's picture

Just stumbled on http://www.rvparking.com and am impressed. It's like 80% of the business directory plan in my head for Coulee Region Online. And it's built on Drupal. Gives me hope that this is possible... LOL!

Michelle

It's excellent!

mallory99's picture

Great find, Michelle - that's a cracking piece of work. I'd love to read a case study detailing their approach and solutions.

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michelle's picture

I found it via this post: http://www.tech-wanderings.com/drupal-page-grows-stale

I contacted the author about writing a blog post on how he got the map popups working with the list of parks, which is something I desperately need to learn how to do. If he knows others are interested, maybe he'll write more about it, if he has time?

Michelle

Fitness focused business directory

kerberos's picture

Hi all.

I thought you may be interested in a US-wide fitness oriented business directory that we just launched:

My Gym and Trainer

It's built in Drupal 6 and integrated a lot of stock modules with our own modules and custom theming. Any feedback or questions are always welcome. :)

-Daniel

Hi Daniel

challin's picture

My name's Angel im creating a site powered by Drupal
the site consist of several modules, one of them is a business directory,
then i wondered if u could make a estimate for development of this module, thanks!

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