By Elixor on

Hi all,

This is something that is probably asked many times but I'm having an issue explaining it with a couple of words and get good results in google. I'm calling it "Content link" and "content category" but clearly this is not going anywhere in google so let me explain.

I'm starting a gaming news website. Each game will have their own page as a "game sheet" which will have tabs of displaying certain type of content (News, Screenshots, Videos, tests, previews, etc...). On top of this the sidebar will then have information about the game such as launch date, publisher, developer, box art, etc...

An ugly example of this would be:
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/431/Rift.html

This which is the first thing I'd like to understand if Drupral can do.

The second one is that I want to be able to click on the name of a publisher and pull out the list of all games from this publisher, same with the genre, same with the developer.

All this is VERY simple in my head but I'm really strugling to find the terminology which would most likely be a nice tutorial or pre-made template/module I could use.

What do you think? Can you help me?

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WorldFallz commented

Yep, drupal can do that. But it's not a matter of enabling a module or theme-- you have to build it by installing and configuring various modules.

The second one is that I want to be able to click on the name of a publisher and pull out the list of all games from this publisher, same with the genre, same with the developer

That's what 'taxonomy' does. If you make vocabularies for game, publisher, genre, developer, etc and tag items with terms from those vocabularies, you get automatic listings (completely configurable) for everything with the term in question.

https://www.drupal.org/project/fever seems like it might be a good theme to start with.

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Elixor commented

Thank you WorldFallz it's always good to have a confirmation that something is possible and meant for regardless of modules/configuration which I'm sure I will find out how. How would you call this "content classification" is it also linked to "taxonomy"?

I will have a look at this theme, at first it looks very much like the right start so I'll dig into it now.

Really appreciate your help.

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

How would you call this "content classification" is it also linked to "taxonomy"?

I'm not sure I understand the question, but 'taxonomy' is what is used to classify just about any drupal entity... Not just content.

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rdillan commented

WorldFallz, I am trying to build a quite similar project like Elixor's. I want to create software portal like http://softchamp.com/. Could you please advise me whether I need vocabularies too and if not, what else I can do? Thanks in advance.

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WorldFallz commented

based on a quick look at the site, I would say definitely. Anytime you want to categorize stuff you're probably looking at using taxonomy. If you need revision control on that though, then you'll probably want to use nodes and entityreference fields.

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rdillan commented

Thanks you WorldFallz.