LOL, thanks, i'll check it out. i did search and read several things, but nothing exactly what i needed. i am new to drupal, and coming from a dotnet world, so alot of this is new to me, but thanks again.
ok, so that doesn't exactly work for me. let me try and explain a little further. part of what you said i can use.
lets say i review a video game, when i publish it, i want it displayed on the main blog on the home page, and also posted to another section called reviews, that will be in the primary links. but, when a user clicks on the Review link in the primary links section, it takes them to a list of reviews, which them they click on which one they want to read.
building on that other long thread (link above to my other reply in the related discussion0
you go to admin/content types / in workflow for the content type 'review' simply make sure that it is set to 'publish to front page' and you're done.
if it's already within a vocabulary called 'reviews' (so for example it's in the term 'games' under vocabulary 'reviews') then you simply need to 'mouse over' that vocabulary ('reviews') and you'll see an id number - like '4' - in the path in your browser (e.g. ...taxonomy/4 or something like that) - that's going to be your "vid" which is an id for the vocabularly used in the many 'php page snippets' in the drupal handbook
now create a new page (e.g. i suggest creating a new content type called 'site pages' for all admin managed pages like 'about us' 'terms ofuse' and so on, including in this a 'php page snippets page' for all pages like this)
in that page you're going to want to put the php page snippet that does what you want. for example, i'm doing this very thing on my site and am using the d6-updated version of "display all teasers from vocabulary X in a page" - the discussion and code is here: http://drupal.org/node/233613
you can simply cut and paste that kind of code from the handbook, but make sure that you've gone to modules and enabled "php filter" (be default only admin can use it unless you open to site users, which you probably never will)
now in the 'create page' you paste the code, then below make sure that you choose 'php' from the 'input format' boxes
click save, then look at the page - up in the browser address bar is the path to that page, simply copy that url (the part after yoursite.com/ because you only need the local path, like "content/node/x"
go to admin/menu and create a new navigation link called "reviews" and in the line for where it should link to, simply paste the address of that page! it's that easy.
hope this makes sense. and those page snippets are very flexible - you can probably find a way to show only titles, sort differently and so on...
btw, another module i'm using which you may really like for reviews is 'taxonomy image' - it's a super simple way to manage and upload little icons or images for your terms in a vocabulary and display in full nodes and/or teasers - so image a little picture of an xbox console for all 'game reviews' or a picture of a pizza for all 'food reviews' and so on - people love visual cues.
ok, it all works, except for the new page, i used the snippet code, enabled php, clicked the button for the new content page and all, but it's not showing anything. i edited the php code ofcourse to use my vid. not sure what else to check
also, from your original post, i don't understand what this 'drop down' means in taxonomy, where that is done?
that page snippet should work (d6) - at least it works on my site - are you sure you have the right vocabulary (if you go to taxonomy, mouse over the top level catch-all - not the individual terms - you should see a long path in the mouseover url and early on is a number like 2 or 4 or whatever, that's the vid)
as for the drop-down, i simply mean that there should be only *one* vocabulary (the 'reviews' with child terms like 'games, movies etc) assocated with content type 'reviews' - if you want 'free tagging' then use a separate vocabulary (d6 has a default set up for tags, just popin and associate with 'reviews' content type)
when a user creates a 'review' - he will see (literally) a drop down menu thing listing all of the terms in reviews to choose from (like games, etc)
i wrote up a lengthy "site recipe" on building a yahoo answers type of site with drupal that covers this particular issue (forcing nodes into categorization) - you may want to check it out (the part about taxonomy, freetag, etc)
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solution for you here, and it's not one module
okay, read this detailed reply that i gave to the same exact question less than 24 hours ago: http://drupal.org/node/233618 - it should help.
LOL, thanks, i'll check it
LOL, thanks, i'll check it out. i did search and read several things, but nothing exactly what i needed. i am new to drupal, and coming from a dotnet world, so alot of this is new to me, but thanks again.
ok, so that doesn't exactly
ok, so that doesn't exactly work for me. let me try and explain a little further. part of what you said i can use.
lets say i review a video game, when i publish it, i want it displayed on the main blog on the home page, and also posted to another section called reviews, that will be in the primary links. but, when a user clicks on the Review link in the primary links section, it takes them to a list of reviews, which them they click on which one they want to read.
is this possible?
sure, that should be easy.
building on that other long thread (link above to my other reply in the related discussion0
you go to admin/content types / in workflow for the content type 'review' simply make sure that it is set to 'publish to front page' and you're done.
if it's already within a vocabulary called 'reviews' (so for example it's in the term 'games' under vocabulary 'reviews') then you simply need to 'mouse over' that vocabulary ('reviews') and you'll see an id number - like '4' - in the path in your browser (e.g. ...taxonomy/4 or something like that) - that's going to be your "vid" which is an id for the vocabularly used in the many 'php page snippets' in the drupal handbook
now create a new page (e.g. i suggest creating a new content type called 'site pages' for all admin managed pages like 'about us' 'terms ofuse' and so on, including in this a 'php page snippets page' for all pages like this)
in that page you're going to want to put the php page snippet that does what you want. for example, i'm doing this very thing on my site and am using the d6-updated version of "display all teasers from vocabulary X in a page" - the discussion and code is here: http://drupal.org/node/233613
you can simply cut and paste that kind of code from the handbook, but make sure that you've gone to modules and enabled "php filter" (be default only admin can use it unless you open to site users, which you probably never will)
now in the 'create page' you paste the code, then below make sure that you choose 'php' from the 'input format' boxes
click save, then look at the page - up in the browser address bar is the path to that page, simply copy that url (the part after yoursite.com/ because you only need the local path, like "content/node/x"
go to admin/menu and create a new navigation link called "reviews" and in the line for where it should link to, simply paste the address of that page! it's that easy.
hope this makes sense. and those page snippets are very flexible - you can probably find a way to show only titles, sort differently and so on...
btw, another module i'm using which you may really like for reviews is 'taxonomy image' - it's a super simple way to manage and upload little icons or images for your terms in a vocabulary and display in full nodes and/or teasers - so image a little picture of an xbox console for all 'game reviews' or a picture of a pizza for all 'food reviews' and so on - people love visual cues.
great info, thanks alot, so
ok, it all works, except for the new page, i used the snippet code, enabled php, clicked the button for the new content page and all, but it's not showing anything. i edited the php code ofcourse to use my vid. not sure what else to check
also, from your original post, i don't understand what this 'drop down' means in taxonomy, where that is done?
not sure - are you on d6?
that page snippet should work (d6) - at least it works on my site - are you sure you have the right vocabulary (if you go to taxonomy, mouse over the top level catch-all - not the individual terms - you should see a long path in the mouseover url and early on is a number like 2 or 4 or whatever, that's the vid)
as for the drop-down, i simply mean that there should be only *one* vocabulary (the 'reviews' with child terms like 'games, movies etc) assocated with content type 'reviews' - if you want 'free tagging' then use a separate vocabulary (d6 has a default set up for tags, just popin and associate with 'reviews' content type)
when a user creates a 'review' - he will see (literally) a drop down menu thing listing all of the terms in reviews to choose from (like games, etc)
i wrote up a lengthy "site recipe" on building a yahoo answers type of site with drupal that covers this particular issue (forcing nodes into categorization) - you may want to check it out (the part about taxonomy, freetag, etc)
@ http://drupal.org/node/235121