Local Boulder Developer with a Couple Drupal Questions
Hi all, I'm a boulder internet marketing guy, building a Drupal site for a company, and have a couple questions. I thought I'd post here, rather than the general areas, in order to meet local developers and connect with the talent that lives in my home town. I'm sure this will not be my last Drupal implementation, and I'm always looking for collaborative developers on projects.
Here are the questions, if anyone has any insights:
1) Taxonomy. I am building a ski resorts website, and need to know how best to handle what I would consider numerical taxonomy. ie, A ski resort has an 8805 foot summit. Each resort will have a summit elevation. So, what if I want to find all resorts with summits over 10,000 feet? Is there no numerical taxonomy values that can be used? Free tagging it seems odd, and writing hard coded ranges also seems a bit blunt. Help!
2) We want to have users review ski resorts. ie. Terrain, Accommodations, Customer Service, for each resort, using a standard star ranking, and have those average out for each resort. Is there not a module that can do multiple star rankings for each review ad-hoc? I found a bunch of single vote modules, but none that allow for complex voting like this on multiple variables. Any ideas?
Thanks for your help! I am totally open to funding module development, especially for the voting module. So, if you are looking for a fun project, and the module does not exist, post here and we can meet up.
Ical feed
Here's my take: 1) Forget
Here's my take:
1) Forget taxonomy. Use CCK and you can search/filter against that value. Views will give you a visible filtering mechanism for that, too.
2) Multi-axis voting is going to be a custom module, unless someone has contributed something that I missed.
Laura
pingVision, LLC (we're hiring)
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fivestar cck field + nodereference
Fivestar module offers a cck field. Use that and nodereference and you should have what you need.
You may need to write a little custom code to get the results of the votes to be tabulated against the referenced node, but I haven't played with it recently enough to say for sure.
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In terms of multi-access
In terms of multi-access voting you might want to look at http://drupalmodules.com/ and see what they are using voting on their site.
-Steve
not shared
Afaik drupalmodules.com is based on lots of code that is not available in the contributed module repository and which John is not interested in sharing.
Fortunately, there are many good alternatives http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/60
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Found Fivestar, And it's definitely the answer
Thanks Greggles,
I found fivestar + node comments http://drupal.org/node/148150 a few days ago, and went far enough to know that the answer is there. Then I got slammed with other projects, and hadn't been back to finish the project. I was going to write about it once I found the solution, but as I hadn't confirmed it working yet myself, I didn't. So, thank you! I'm amazed with Drupal right now. I had used it a few years back, and it has jumped forward exponentially in functionality, and CCK is a huge part of that for me. There is still a bunch I have no clue about, but hopefully it will all come together the more I work with it.
General Drupal Question
If you have general Drupal questions about vocabulary and the like feel free to contact me (http://www.denverdataman.com/content/about-denver-dataman). If I can just answer your questions by email I would be glad to do that but also offer introcution to Drupal training if you are interesting in going that route.
-Steve