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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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

While setting up a business directory, I would like each business listing to be able to maintain a buddylist/fan base. SO for example if a business maintainer has new stock, they can simply email all the business fans/buddies.

Now the problem is should I let "businesses" be "groups", with a custom group/business page, so users can join(become fans) of a business, thereby automatically being able to opt in/out of mailing lists.

Or

Should I create a CCK node-type and use usernode to make use of the buddylist module. (not sure how this works though)

thanks

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.

I know there is a discussion going on here about building a business directory module. However, I also see other people are already doing this with existing modules. Could I fairly easily build a directory like this: http://www.pastigo.com/sites-amp-attractions-2.html using Drupal's existing modules? This directory was done in Joomla! using Mosets Tree. I've also been looking at using SOBI2 with Joomla!, but it's not updated yet to run with J! 1.5 and not sure when that will happen. Plus, I'm trying to see if there is a better way to organize the data.