Hello All! (originally posted this in forum... thought this might be better)
I am looking for some advice/examples/tutorials/suggestions/etc..
Trying to build a site with drupal, and stuck on the core architecture. The desired effect overview:
*User can go to a search page and select country, state, and city.
*Within each city there are multiple categories, and 'posts' or 'nodes' that users can contribute. Users should be able to then search again by tags or types of posts within that city. This part of the structure will have categories, sub-categories, and posts in both or multiples.
The overall concept is similar to craigslist... but meant to be easier to navigate. **I would also like the application to remember returning users' city- again, similar to craigslist.
What I have done so far:
After several days of reading, researching, and module installations, I am stuck and crying out for help. So far I have installed views, cck, gmaps, faceted search, location, taxonomy, book, categories, panels, and others that have been recommended for people building similar apps. I am sure that the solution lies in all this somewhere? I keep thinking that I need to combine the book and categories somehow...
More about the desired affect:
*Users: set or change location and search for categorized posts within city. The can also post (I've got the posting bit worked out...)
*Admin: duplicate cities (with all desired categories), or states.. or countries... all in the same fashion. AND: if more categories are added under city- all cities are updated accordingly.
*User Navigation: There seems to be no module for dynamically updating dropdown forms- especially with a search function. I've seen some hacks- but I know no php. So, these don't seem like the best solution. I'd be happy with a sidebar or block that allows a guided navigation (and still remember the city per user- keep mentioning this to make sure that whatever I use to do it can tie to the architecture) but not sure how to set that up either...
*The Posts: the posts are location sensitive and category/sub-category sensitive.
*Scale: planning for huge numbers on posts and traffic (isn't everyone?) and growth/expansion of options
Anyone have something like this that can give me some advice? Or have the experience with these modules to show me the path to resolution?
Comments
Why would you duplicate?
Location is one taxonomy - render it with heirarchical select probably
Product/service is another taxonomy (or two). It's a different facet, a different axis.
A post will be in a place offering a thing type. Two fields, both need to be filled in.
Faceted search should be useful (though I've not configured it myself) but it's not to unreasonable.
Not sure how you'd pre-select user preferences, I'm sure it's not too hard though. Maybe link in with profile, or just cookie it (and a little bit of form_alter).
Sounds great- actually part
Sounds great- actually part of the original idea... but hierarchical select has no support for d6-which is what I'm trying to use. Any other options?
The Drupal 6 version works
The Drupal 6 version works fine, it's in use on more than 2,000 web sites. I will tag the first release this week.
Does the d6 version not work
Does the d6 version not work for you?
The only way a module goes from -dev to -stable is by testers saying that it seems good enough.
wim and dman- I did not know
wim and dman-
I did not know that!!! I had no idea that I could use a dev module- let alone that I was supposed to in order to help the community. Sorry guys- and thanks for the help! Wim- your module is absolutely brilliant! I will be installing tonight and let you all know how it works!
Did it wor?
trying to do something similar did it work?