Linking Different Content Type

Really, hope that someone could find this thread useful.

Thanks for the reply, because of your help and i have also found some other modules that work well with the nodereference to enchance the experience with it.

Nodereferrer Create - http://drupal.org/project/nodereferrer_create - Add tabs to existing nodes to create new related nodes. By creating nodes in context, the user avoids having to select the referenced node manually.

Multiselect - http://drupal.org/project/multiselect - This module defines a widget to be used with the nodereference CCK field type. It allows the user to select multiple items in an easy way. It consists of two lists, one of unselected items, the other of selected items. The user can select an item by moving it from the unselected list to the selected list.

Referenced By Views Filter - http://drupal.org/project/ReferencedByFilter - The main purpose of this module is to allow the creation of pagers from referenced nodes. For example, in your Album content type you have a node reference to 5 photos. You would like that only one photo per page will appear and a pager. Without this module it isn't possible as the pager will refer to the base node, not to the referenced nodes.

not so related to my case, but related to nodereference and may be useful for others

Taxonomy Search Module - http://drupal.org/project/taxonomySearch - Allows a user to use a taxonomy heirarchy to pre-select a list to be used as a select list (e.g. drop down). The Taxonomy Search Widget is an addon widget to the nodereference field type. It allows the admin to set up a taxononmy vocabulary that the user can select from to limit the node selection to only those nodes tags with a specific taxonomy term. It uses AJAX to update the selection widget.

Views Fusion - http://drupal.org/project/views_fusion - Views Fusion allows one to fuse multiple views into one. So you can build fusioned views that display information that is stored in multiple nodes - useful for tabular views. It uses node relations for joining the appropriate nodes together.

and on top of that, i think this could be useful for directory which has parent and child as per the description
Node Relativity - http://drupal.org/project/relativity - The module allows parent-child relationships between nodes to be established, managed and searched. You can restrict the types of nodes that can be parented and the ordinality of parents. These are used to contextually create links to add new child nodes or attach existing ones. There is also a navigation block that uses a node's ancestry to list out breadcrumb-style links.

Thanks for your reply, I believe that you're referring to node referrer create right?

On the second question, you're right about what i wanted to do, which is like what you mentioned "envisioning a "business" node with a "Photo" tab that displays related photos? "

Question: Can i still use view module to display "business" node and "photo" as tabs because i would like to theme the look of the business node (using the templete overide)

Do you want images as nodes (in which case you can use Image Import for bulk uploading) or a CCK solution with Imagefield?

I planning to design it as a node. As that will give more functionality, such as voting, comment or review. This relates to the first question i asked where linking both content types together. As far as i know that, i can't use cck imagefield if i wanted to have it as nodes right? I opened to any suggestion, or perharps you think that it should not be as a nodes, post your opinions and views.

Sean,

You could refer to http://drupal.org/node/203130