Creating a "Dynamic" page that i can put stories on

By rekahsoft on 24 Dec 2006 at 22:05 UTC

This is a very simple question and i feel like an idiot posting about it but here it goes. I want to create a page that i can post an unlimited amount of stories on (note i do not want to stories to propagate to the front page). Thanks in advance for the help :)

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Views

Anonymous (not verified) commented 24 December 2006 at 23:00

You could create a view using the views module that will only show stories and you can organize them however you want.

http://drupal.org/project/views

txcrew

I will give it a try and report back

rekahsoft commented 24 December 2006 at 23:26

I am going to give it a try and then report back with my thaughts...btw how does drupal.org do the multiple pages they have? (ex. http://drupal.org/handbooks). Do do do it will the views module? or do they do it some other way???

I believe that uses the core

Anonymous (not verified) commented 25 December 2006 at 00:16

I believe that uses the core book.module which, as it states in the module description, "Allows users to collaboratively author a book." I haven't used that module too much myself so I can't tell you for sure.

txcrew

How do i install the views module?

rekahsoft commented 25 December 2006 at 21:06

Hi again, i was busy with christmas but i did have the time to try out the module but i couldn't because i don't know how to install it. Is there a how to? I believe there is a installer but i do not know how to use it. Thanks again.

???

rekahsoft commented 25 December 2006 at 21:11

i think i found out how to install the module (copy the views.module and views_ui.module into my module folder); is this right? Because i got an database error when i enabled the modules. Is there any easier way to make a new "dynamic" page?

See Handbook

Anonymous (not verified) commented 25 December 2006 at 22:07

This chapter may be of some help to you:

http://drupal.org/node/43767

txcrew

Views = installed

rekahsoft commented 26 December 2006 at 16:38

ok, i installed views wrong the first time which messed up my mysql database so i recreaded the database and installed it right and now it is working fine :) Now i have created a view but how do i go about making content only go to the view i made. Thanks

views is a powerful module.

VM commented 26 December 2006 at 16:57

views is a powerful module. to better understand how views works take a look at this handbook page http://drupal.org/node/63230

there is a plethora of information regarding the views module found in both the handbooks and the forums. Using the Drupal Search tool will prove fruitful. Using google search would point you to http://www.angrydonuts.com which is the views.module developers blog site.