By edukates on

Hi. My first "help" post. Oddly when I was trying to find out where to post this message, I saw someone that needed help which I oddly think I had an answer for that person as his topic is similar, but I think I have a bit more need of help....

The goal: Allow a user to select their state, then select the town in that state which would then bring them to a page that has all the information about that town that I want to show them. Some of the information would be names, pictures, government files for their use.

With this said, I think my problem may be understanding how to do this from my experience (very old with databases) ...

So I will use Massachusetts as an example. There are 351 towns/cities in the state of MA. Each town has the same basic information, but each town has a bit of different presentation. Things like "mayor" or "town manager" is one example.

I am not sure if I need to create a taxonomy term for say the town of "Cohasset" and then add the State and town list dropdown selection to a content type (say "Town"). As part of adding in content for "Cohasset" (title) I then apply the taxonomy terms: "Massachussets" (state), "Cohasset" (town) so that when the user selects "Massachussetts" and "Cohasset" (I have yet to figure out how to do this so that it delivers the page "Cohasset"), the content "Cohasset" is shown.

Sorry if I am not making sense, but I have watched lots of videos. I tried creating a webform with "State" and "Town" putting conditionals on it to only show the correct list of towns for that state (I found that there was some type of memory error on entering in conditional rule #46 .... ugggh). (I can't figure out how to include a copy of the screen shot of the Ajax Error..... !) BUT the next part that I was going to face was how to show the user the page for that Town's page and I felt that I may be missing something conceptually and then I went on to be mesmerized (OK overwhelmed) by Hierarchical Select!

Any pointing me in the right direction - video ... tutorial anything would be greatly appreciated. If you haven't figured it out, I am a noob.... but have watched lots of videos on lots of different things on Drupal. Even though I know I am confused, I feel that I am getting closer to understanding.... appreciate any help.

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