content types

Hello all. I'm pretty new to the Drupal community and am having a bit of trouble understanding the different content types and elements that drupal uses to organize information. I was wondering if anyone knows of any articles or whatnot that lay it out pretty clearly (the more visual the better for me).

My organization has two types of events: (1) Events Hosted by Us (2) State-Wide Events Hosted by Member Orgs.

Our event type node references a "Location" content type in order to show a google map on the event page -- built using this tutorial

I want to allow member organizations to submit events to a calendar without having to first create a location separately.

Hej,

Jag har nyligen börjat med Drupal efter använt WordPress en del. Jag har bara några frågor som kanske är lätta att besvara men frågar bara för lära använda Drupal på rätt sätt.

Jag har tänkt bygga en hemsida i Drupal för visa t.ex Tjänster, Om mig, Produkter och så vidare. För att skapa olika content types använder jag mig utav CCK och för få snygga permalänkar använder jag Pathauto och Clean URL (var tvungen att lägga in kod i .htaccess för att få Loopia att stödja det).

Overview: Automatic importing/exporting system for content types and a content types server that provides importing of content types, where the developer can choose to import a single content type or a set of them with their relationships (node references, etc).

I have been writing up a white paper on how Drupal could work, but wanted to submit an initial and important first step. I know allot of people see comments as nodes being a major issue. Many want it, while others site potential problems with performance. Without comments as Nodes we have no code uniformity making any CCK features and Views features needing exceptions based on if its a node or if its a comment.

I am currently in the very beginning stages of writing a book on Drupal Content Types that will focus on Core, CCK, and Views. I have a first draft of the outline that I am working on. I would love to get community feedback to help shape the book at this very early stage.

http://alanio.net/blog/2009/02/first-draft-drupal-book-outline-content-t...

Thank you,
Alan

CCK: 6.x-2.1
Drupal: 6.8

I am working on a module that needs to fetch sets of nodes based on various criteria (I don't think the criteria isn overly important for this discussion). The content nodes may span all content types installed on the site. I need to fetch a list of all the nodes matching my requirements and all of their fields/content.

I need this basic functionality: