Business Directory

This group should probably have more organizers. See documentation on this recommendation.

A place to collaborate on a "recipe" for building a business directory, using existing modules and customisation under the bonnet with the view to eventually developing a Business Directory Module for Drupal.

Come along and

help develop a specification
share your ideas and suggestions
provide support
contribute experience and coding expertise
help with debugging

Creating a list Alphabetically in views

Posted by Gmal-1 on March 9, 2011 at 6:41pm

I created a content type and view which is a listing of business names. When I enter the info it posts it by the "time" I entered the info. My question; is there a way that it can be displayed in alphabetical order?

Please note I am a novice and if it requires some sort of hack I guess i will have to live with it because my programming skills are very limited.

Thanks for the help.

Requirements

Posted by simon147 on February 24, 2011 at 7:07pm

Hello all,

I've started working on a business plan where we'd also need a directory. I'm not really an IT guy, but if our project takes off, there might be chances that we get funding to do some development of a module such as Sobi2 for Joomla and contribute it to the drupal community.

I've just set up a wiki page to identify the features such a module should have.

Three questions:

Business directory: Requirements

Posted by simon147 on February 24, 2011 at 6:57pm
Last updated by simon147 on Thu, 2011-02-24 18:57

General requirements

Overall, a new Drupal business directory module should answer to the following requirements:

Easy to integrate into a Drupal website
Basic default features, but easy to extend (for example with additional fields)
...

Basic features

A business directory module should have the following core features:

Search function

The module should have an advanced search functionalities that allows to search the directory based on:

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The name of the company (of course)

Scheduling using Drupal

Posted by kerberos on January 27, 2011 at 6:42pm

We just launched a Drupal based sports/fitness Web site/directory, My Gym and Trainer. In the future, we are hoping to add scheduling capabilities for the various gym and trainers that maintain listings on the site. Does anyone know a good solution to implement this? I looked at scheduling modules for Drupal but didn't find much. <a href="http://drupal.org/project/merci" title="Drupal MERCI scheduling module>MERCI seems to be promising but it's more focused on inventory management than class scheduling.

Yelp-like site with Drupal

Posted by user654 on January 27, 2011 at 4:41pm

Hi,
I would like to make a Yelp-like site with Drupal.
I think there are a lot of people interested in this.
Could a more experienced user write a good tutorial so as to help the others?
Which modules should we use?

Thanks in advance for your time

Directory and Category modules

Posted by user654 on December 3, 2010 at 2:46pm

What about these two modules?

http://drupal.org/project/directory

http://drupal.org/project/category

Seeking advice and help with how to display my directory's content

Posted by drupalfan81 on August 16, 2010 at 2:31am

I have been creating a drupal site, www.findinjp.com, for over a year now and I am finally liking the way it functions and the content types, etc. The only problem I have now, is HOW TO DISPLAY/ORGANIZE the content. My goal is to have thousands and thousands of listings but I have no idea using Drupal how to display this content in a organized manner.

I was hoping someone here with experience would be able to help me out.

I saw this website: http://www.gran-canaria-info.com/index-old.shtml

Openlayers Proximity Search

Posted by Adam S on August 4, 2010 at 8:18am

Hi guys,

I haven't given up on a business directory yet, just waiting for Drupal technology to advance a little bit.

Here is something cool that I found. Could be the killer app that establishes Drupal as the go to platform for any directory that is location based.

What do you think?

http://drupal.org/project/openlayers_proximity

A tutorial on integrating OpenLayers Geocode with Finder Module

Posted by Adam S on June 23, 2010 at 2:55am

Hi All,

This is a crummy tutorial. However, in my defense I did spend the last 2 hours putting it together and countless hours trying to figure these modules to do it in the first place. It is probably for the intermediate to advanced Drupal user, mostly because I'm sure there are some mistakes in it, some intermediary steps missing and I didn't make it very elegant.

Business directory theory....

Posted by Adam S on June 11, 2010 at 9:55pm

One of the many genres of website is the business directory. This seemed to become very popular during the early and mid 2000's with most following the pattern of having many listings with paid listings that gravitated to the top of lists with more information on them.

There are a few problems with this approach. First, there are many out-of-the-box solutions and Joomla has a handful of plug and play modules. Also, when looking for a business why not just go ahead and use Google?

Setting up a business directory

Posted by richardmclarke on October 1, 2009 at 1:22pm

Hi, I am trying to get my head around the steps required to set up a searchable business directory similar to http://www.gran-canaria-info.com/index-old.shtml whereby users can add their own businesses and they are later searchable. I have trawled through the comments on this group and can't seem to find some step by step instructions. Can anyone point me in the right direction? If not could you give me some ideas to start,

thanks,

Richard

Reviving the Business Directory Group

Posted by jbizzay on July 23, 2009 at 8:59am

I've followed this group for awhile, because I have created a lot of business directories outside of Drupal, and have wondered if it could be done easier and quicker within Drupal and it's vast amount of contrib modules. Well, I think it can, now that I do 90% of website development work in Drupal.

Help with structuring a directory

Posted by zythyr on June 26, 2009 at 6:56am

I am trying to create a system like http://atlanta.craigslist.org/, where users can post anything they are selling. This is what I did so far.

1) I created a content type called "marketplace listing". I used CCK to add various fields.
2) I created a container vocabulary called "Marketplace". Then I added terms (categories) in a tree like structure. For example, see below:
Marketplace
-For Sale
--Books
--Electronics
--Clothes
--Computers
-Jobs
--Accounting
--Finance
--Engineering
-Housing
--Apartments
--Condos

Help Creating a Business Directory

Posted by zythyr on June 8, 2009 at 11:00pm

I am new to Drupal. I have watched many tutorials on how to use Drupal, but I have no idea where to start for this project.

I Want to Create a Searchable Business Directory

Posted by J-Chance@drupal.org on March 26, 2009 at 9:24am

Hello,

I want to create a searchable Business Directory. I know how to do this using simple criteria like State and City. My current hurdle is figuring out how to do this by zipcode regions. I did some searching and found that there is a module called "Location" that touches on the concept but Im not sure if that is the way to go. DOes anyone here have any suggestions or has anyone else already done this? Thank you in advance.

Gauging interest in a Recurring Billing and Subscription Management Module for Drupal

Posted by GripMediaDOTNet on February 12, 2009 at 6:18am

Howdy:

We're gauging interest in the need for a module to manage recurring billing and paid subscriptions within Drupal.

The Problem:

Our experience is that a simple solution is sorely needed for Drupal. Particularly for paid roles.

Solutions for this exist with AMember, CiviCRM, UberCart and eCommerce (not for 6.0 for eCommerce). But there are problems inherent with each solution.

The Current Solutions:

News Module

Posted by manikandan.rt on January 29, 2009 at 9:17am

Hi, I want to display the latest news title in my website home page, all list the all news in the News Page. If user clicks the news title i want to list the news detail page, In this page we have News title, Whole message, Date, Posted by etc..

Please any one advice me or let me know is any module you recommended.

Thanks

Intelligent display of multi-level taxonomy

Posted by kerberos on January 5, 2009 at 4:04am

Hello everyone.

I am trying to solve the following problem and am wondering if I overlooked anything:

I am working on a listings directory. I'm creating a content type with CCK and want to use taxonomy to organize the different categories. The structure would be something akin to:

Directory Vocabulary
-- Business Category 1
---- Subterm 1
------ Sub-sub term 1
------ Sub-sub term 2
------ Sub-sub term 3
---- Subterm 2
------ Subterm 3
-- Business Category 2
-- Business Category 3
...

Pathauto, clean urls, SEO in business directories

Posted by droople on December 22, 2008 at 7:01pm

I am almost done with the development of a social business directory, and would love to start the SEO side of things, in which I am not well versed at.

The website structure is divided into 3 sections: Business Directory | Events | Community

Business Directory content is added by the following node types:

Entertainment
Health
Religious
Restaurant
Service
Shop
Website

Events content:

Event

Community Content:

group
group post
album (photos)
question (answers)
blogs

Three ways to create classified ads/business directory: reviews

Posted by nicholas_w on October 28, 2008 at 4:09pm

As far as I can tell there are three primary avenues to creating the functionality needed for classified ad or business directory websites. I'm about to test each of them so that I can figure out which is best for my purposes, so I thought I'd post here and see if anyone has any experience with these modules and can help out. When I'm finished testing them myself, I'll post the results here.

The three avenues (as far as I can tell, if there are others, please let me know) are:

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