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By giorgiopg on
Hi to everyone,
i am new to drupal community and i have to tell you that i'm about to rebuild a big website from joomla 3.2 & K2 2.6.7 to drupal 7, but i have some questions to ask you and i hope you could answer them. Unfortunately i realized that joomla has big problems with websites that use many menu items. Modules cannot be saved when you click in the menu assignment "all pages" in the administrator panel.
I made a lot of research trying to find solutions to my problem ( not only one ), but unfortunately i haven't found any solution. I am 99% sure that Drupal 7 is the right cms for me.
My questions...
1. Are there issues with websites that use a lot of menus, menu items, modules and plugins?
I posted earlier the same question in another thread and they responded me
"failure to save a big page sometimes happens on a big Drupal site if the mysql server is inadequate (though I have never seen this affect a menu page)."
In the website i use many K2 categories and subcategories, but i want the urls to be like in this example www.mysite.com/category, www.mysite.com/subcategory and so on and not www.mysite.com/category/subcategory.
2. Is it possible with Drupal 7?
With K2 i have the opportunity to use custom templates either in categories or in subcategories. The custom template and the parameters of a k2 category can be inherited by other categories or subcategories.
3. Can i do that with drupal 7?
In K2 there is a plugin K2 additional categories that allows you to add the same K2 item in more than one category or subcategory.
4. Is there something like that in Drupal 7?
I have some other questions but i will firstly do a research and learn Drupal in order not to bother you anymore...
Thank you
Comments
Some replies are given here
Some replies are given here https://drupal.org/node/1993082, not all.
A very long opening question can deter people from reading!
A taxonomy term or vocabulary can be used on multiple content types We do not have K2, content types are built in to core. Taxonomy terms allow a piece of content to be tagged with a term. You should learn about Drupal content types, the field system, and the Drupal taxonomy system, then come back with with questions if it is not clear. You can learn from the documentation linked from Documentation tab (top of this page), which is quite comprehensive but not as clear or easy to navigate as it should be. You can also learn from many books, and form (partially paid) video tutorials from drupalize.me, buildamodule.com, lynda.com and elsewhere.
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Learn a bit about (better see
Learn a bit about (better see Youtube videos on this topics):
- Token module
- Taxonomy, Terms
- Views, Panels (your K2 custom CSS per category thing)
You can have one Article in several "categories". You need to get rid of K2 category philosophy. it is completely different in Drupal. I lost much time tweaking Drupal with reference fields to get it look like K2, joomla. At the end all that work (anyway it was test developing) was for nothing. I mean it worked OK and without problems, but you limit yourself and making future changes on website impossible. It is Drupal way or Joomla way, no mixing.
Learn Drupal, watch videos there are plenty, and forget about Joomla for a while. And K2 "hidden" menu items. All my old websites are with K2. I believe you missunderstood K2, and complicated unneccessary a bit.
Doesnt matter now. Just forget Joomla menus and categories. In Drupal they are something completely different. You will learn after time, but will lose more time if you try to think in this Joomla terms.
Most other options from K2 will give you Views and fields. Learn them.