Business Directory Module

By grutkowski on 4 Oct 2003 at 22:17 UTC

Just wondering if anyone would like to take on a Business Directory module for Drupal?

If so, lets start a discussion.

Gil Rutkowski
inova consulting corp. | Innovative Business Solutions
www.inov8it.com

Note from maintainer: Check out the group at http://groups.drupal.org/business-directory

Comments

Business Directory w/comments

fyl commented 11 January 2004 at 15:10

I have been thinking about a module that would allow businesses to create an entry which contained their name, contact info and description. This entry would only be editable by the creator. Comments could be associated with it.

Services page on drupal.org

Dries commented 11 January 2004 at 16:06

We might be able to use such module here on drupal.org to replace the current services page. We currently maintain this page by hand. A more generic outline module might also be useful to replace the services page. Maybe we can collaborate on the development of a suitable module?

I will help if I can

fyl commented 12 January 2004 at 15:41

I am willing to do what I can. My particular application for this is for a web site on Nicaragua. The idea would allow anyone to add a listing for their business. The only "special" things I would like to see are including the date it was updated--both so people know how old the listing is and so you could harvest ones in need of updating--and possibly a field for GPS coordinates. This sounds strange but in Central America there are few street signs and being able to show a location on a map or relative to other places is a real plus.

In my application there could be a lot of listings so being able to page it is important. Allowing some keywords is another idea. Not sure what more magic is required.

Generic Thought

shane commented 13 January 2004 at 03:16

I (always) love the idea of creating as generic (hence more flexible) a module as possible. I have the need for a "contact" module, which I guess is similar to the orginal concept here; eg the "business" module. I'm in need of a module to keep contact information for people, businesses, etc... It would be nice to have at least the following fields:

       Name:
      Title:
   Business:
    Address:
    Address:
       City:
      State:
        Zip:
      Phone:
 Phone Work:
 Phone Home:
 Phone Cell:
 Fax Number:
      Email:
    Website:
      Notes:

This is obviously US specific (eg no Country, or other non-US based fields). Hence the following comment makes the most sense, in terms of allowing the module to be the most flexible.

It would be nice if this module was generic enough that all of the fields could be dynamically specified by the administrator. This way the module could be completely customized as needed.

It would be nice if this module used the taxonomy system so you could define a structure to your information.

you are in luck

moshe weitzman commented 13 January 2004 at 04:14

my contact.module is flexible enough to let admin configure all fields. see here

nice!

km commented 13 January 2004 at 13:38

This is exiting news since I tried to do something similar;)

What I would like to be added is an "Associate User" option and an "Associate Contact" option to the user module. This would allow users to link to contacts which makes perfectly sense if the contact information is about an organisation or company.

It would be nice if one could choose a user which could edit the contact information (similar to change the "Authored by" field).

Btw. if only one contact is listed but not checked the "Send email" button works while the "Make user" does not.

Shoot, problems with contact.module

shane commented 13 January 2004 at 22:28

I checked out the contact.module - and it's *exactly* what I'm looking for. Spent the morning customizing the fields.inc and database table to match it. Got excited about running it ... Input everything works fine, but when I click on the Preview button, I get:

warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in 
/rtty/sgibson/elemental/modules/contact/contact.module 
on line 298.

warning: Bad arguments to implode() in 
/rtty/sgibson/elemental/modules/contact/contact.module 
on line 302.

I'm not sure if I dorked up the fields.inc arrays (I followed the example fairly closely), or if there's a problem with the contact.module and the 4.3.2 code I'm running? I didn't make any mods to the contact.module code. TIA.

Figured it out

shane commented 13 January 2004 at 23:30

For some reason the form type of "select" was causing the problem in my fields.inc file. I guess it doesn't work properly with the contact.module. Either that or I invoked it incorrectly in fields.inc:

'type'  => array('select', t('Contact Type'), true, true, false, '', '',
array(t("person"), t("business"),  t("group or club"), t("other")), 
"Select the type of this contact", NULL, 1),

I'm looking for something lik

truilus commented 11 March 2004 at 23:14

I'm looking for something like your contact module, but it seems that it does not work with 4.4. Any plans to upgrade it?

Could you repost that link, it is broken.

the_source commented 25 October 2010 at 05:31

Could you repost that link, it is broken.

Classification

Dries commented 13 January 2004 at 08:45

For the services page on drupal.org, we also need classification so we can categorize the entries into two groups: 'hosting compananies' and 'solutions providers'. Nested categories should be possible.

contact --> directory

fyl commented 17 January 2004 at 22:36

I finally got a chance to play with the contact module. Seems pretty close to what I had in mind for a directory module. The big addition would be a way to group then entries. I am guessing the logical way would be to allow associating each entry with one or more taxonomy terms. Does this make sense?

already possible

moshe weitzman commented 18 January 2004 at 00:23

a contact is like any other node. you may associate taxonomy terms with it.

What has to be changed in the

km commented 20 January 2004 at 15:16

What has to be changed in the profile.module to associate an user with a contact?

not applicable

moshe weitzman commented 21 January 2004 at 04:15

you don't associate users with contacts. contacts can currently be associated with other contacts.

you can 'upgrade' a contact node to a 'user', using the contact.module

Sure that is the usage you in

km commented 21 January 2004 at 11:56

Sure that is the usage you intended for the contacts.module.

I want to use the contacts.module to record informations about organisations and companys. Using the contacts.module this way I think it will perfectly make sense to let a user associate herself with an organisation.

I imagine a listing of names under "Asscociated contacts:" like the link under "Recent posts:" on the user page.

Re: Classification

Hortalonus commented 8 July 2004 at 19:24

I also think it should use the taxonomy system for classification into categories. Has any progress been made on a business directory module? This is a module that would be very, very useful.

Serious Business Directory module for Drupal

Su8LiMe commented 10 September 2005 at 00:00

I would love to continue development on this business directory module for Drupal.

Here are some features/requirements:

> It definately should use taxonomy.

> It could also have multiple options for paid listings and and users should be able to add thier own listing without trouble.

> The view of each listing should be very clean and professional looking.

> Members should be able to edit their own listing, quickly.

> Members should be able to upgrade their listing options.

> Search feature to quickly and easily find anything in the directories database.

> Possibly enable comments for each listing, admin preference.

> Categories editor, working with taxonomy, so that admin can customize their directory flavor.

It would be nice to find some sponsors for this project.

I am willing and able to undertake development for this project.
I can do so without over-complicating it and creating a messy application.

I know exactly how a good premium business directory application should work.

I have a pool going for sponsors to join.

Sponsors will get access to the code before its released.

Also, I would like to release to under GPL License to the Drupal community after it becomes a solid module application.
It would contain credits/logos for all the sponsors.

No money will change hands until project is commissioned.

Contact me if you are interested.
daniel.hall [@] gmail.com [.] com

Best regards,

Daniel Hall

CCK Slow and too many content types

discursives commented 24 May 2006 at 02:42

Did you ever make a business directory module for 4.7? I am sitting here doing configuration on the fields on CCK, but it has inherent issues with permissions. For example, I want to upgrade listings, but when I do, I want them to simply have 1 or maybe 2 more fields that they can fill in. I end up with many content types this way, and that is not what I want, really. I want the fields, all in one content type, that grows with the subscription.

Solution?

j0k3z commented 16 June 2006 at 03:19

Does anybody have a solution for this?

Id really like to have this feature but I have no idea how to do it myself. This is the kind of thing I have in mind for my needs.

I will be making a community type website, a business directory will be one section of the website. My business directory will be all paid listings. It may also have free listings in the future but for now It will all be paid listings. This means that a user should not be able to just enter his business into the listing. It would need to be moderated for me to mark it as 'paid' before it is shown on the live website.

I would like a way to control the listings and offer upgrades and such. (bold, top placement based on who paid more, etc) Since my listings would be paid listings they would need to record the date that I listed them and how long they were paid for. So when someone pays for a years listing then after 11 months they and me will get a notification that they need to renew their subscription. If I have not marked them down as paid again then their listing will be paused until they pay again.

Business listing should be easy to manage. Basic information such as name, address, phone, fax should be listed. I also want the business to have a main photo and maybe a section where more photos can be seen. The business owner should be able to log in and edit this information and also add a longer description below this information.

Business ratings / comments. I want users to be able to leave comments and rate businesses. Im sure this can already be done using one of the other modules though.

Events. I think that businesses should be able to work with the events module to start events such as a party at their bar.

I would want to browse all of these listings based on location or category.

Can this be done? Who is up to the task?

How much work are we looking at here? Can this be done with existing modules?

I am needing the SAME EXACT

ccasselman commented 16 September 2006 at 18:30

I am needing the SAME EXACT thing. Have you received any responses for this?

chad

I'm looking for the same thing...

Crazy Serb commented 4 November 2006 at 22:13

Right now I am using phpMyDirectory for my "business directory" needs, but I can see too many limitations to it (and I am loving Drupal 5.0 so far, so I'd like to see it done in Drupal instead)...

phpMyDirectory demo is here -> http://www.phpmydirectory.com/demo/index.php

and I am pretty much interested in information on getting the similar functionality from phpMyDirectory with either existing Drupal modules or with some new modules alltogether...

PHPmyDirectory

jamesmcd commented 28 January 2009 at 21:53

Hello, would be interested to know your feeedback on phpmydirectory?

Is it any good? Worth purchasing?

Many thanks

Your description is the closest to perfect

marius.s commented 22 March 2007 at 17:37

I would also love to have a business directory module in drupal.

I am following the development of drupal, and unfortunately realize that this isn't in any upcoming plans of developers. And I am not connected to programming at all, so it is not possible for me to create the module.

I think Daniel's idea and description came quite close to a very good set of functionalities.
Why don't we resurrect this idea, contribute with what we can and have ourselves a good module?

Daniel, you talk about the sponsors - I think if we can do it based on a goodwill - perfect.
If not - what is the amount of money that you estimate is needed for a project like this?

Edit: to make it more action oriented, I invite those who are interested in having this module to reply to this message with their name and email.
I believe only those who can spend some time and/or money should reply.
I volunteer to do the project management, and, if needed, spend one or two hundred dollars.

Marius
Email address is available at www.cringel.com/contacts

www.cringel.com
left my office job and went to Asia

I'm in!

Crazy Serb commented 11 April 2007 at 17:29

Ok, I'm in...

I really can't wait any longer and would like to get something rolling here.

I've been using www.phpmydirectory.com so far for my business directory sites, and it's a great script (which I would like to base the functionality of this business directory module as well), but it lacks all the CMS features of Drupal, as well as all the community (users, members, forums) features of it.

Therefore, I'll contribute $200 USD to get this project started, get some drupal programmers and people skilled with current code/modules structure and design, and get going!

Marius, you can handle the project management if you want, or if you'd like I can take care of that, since I've been doing that for years now...

Anybody else interested in this and willing to cough up a bit of cash to get it done proper (and for commercial purposes with subscription/payments for listings, etc), reply here or message me privately with your contact information.

I should be setting up something for this in the next week or two, either here on module development area or someplace else.

Let's go then

marius.s commented 20 April 2007 at 16:43

Crazy Serb,

I'll gladly let you manage this, especially since you have experience in this field. I do not.

I'll also contribute 200 USD and my time to the project.

How can I find out your contact information? I'd like to discuss the features of the module more extensively, which maybe is not suitable in this space.

Marius
www.cringel.com

Lets define what we want to have for the module

Su8LiMe commented 13 May 2007 at 10:26

I have used PHPmyDirectory as well

Yeah, i used that and noticed all of its limitations.

I would be up for finishing this module.

What fields do we want to collect info for and how should the front of the directory look?

Also, what listing options should we have?

Highlight +$3

etc
etc

Best regards,

Daniel Hall
www.ArcturusMultimedia.com

Discuss privately, post results here

marius.s commented 24 May 2007 at 10:34

Hi,

I have a suggestion to discuss everything in private (email), and share the outcome here.

In that way we won't make this thread unreadably long and at the same time hopefully we can get the suggestions after we post the draft.

I have sent you my email to contacts section of arcturusmultimedia.com, please check your inbox.

Also, I wonder what happened with CrazySerb, seems like he was quite into the project. CrazySerb, mind replying?

Marius
www.cringel.com

How's the progress?

kirkcaraway commented 22 July 2007 at 17:30

I, too, am very interested in a business directory for Drupal and incorporates the best of PHPMydirectory. I would be willing to contribute money/time to the project. Just let me know how I could help. thanks.

Wow, almost two years have

arossphoto commented 14 November 2006 at 05:40

Wow, almost two years have gone by since this topic was started and their is still no business directory of any kind for Drupal?

business directory Module - other solutuions?

jenlampton

she / her

commented 21 February 2007 at 01:00

If still no one is working on a business directory module, maybe others have found alternate solutions? I'd be interested to hear what people have tried, what's worked, and what's failed.
Jen

I agree...

polybiosis commented 26 February 2007 at 05:13

What can be done to include a business directory for Drupal. I say it would be a great feature that should have some time spent on it by everyone interested.

Little humble Work in progress

tostinni commented 26 February 2007 at 22:44

Hi everybody,
Suscribing this thread and adding that for the moment I'm working on building an intranet with our internal directory (1000+ employees).
I'll manage this in a simple way : profile + members.
Profiles help me to have all information needed (like country, branch, department, position, tel, extension...)
Members give me a nice tabular display (with sort) of all this information.
Also I'm adding a little patch (still need some work) to be able to restrict members' listing by profile values.

Using all this I just have to build a page with link to my directories classified by branch, branch/department etc...

Then I may add search to profile to be able to find rapidly any contact...

To be continued...

I could use such a module.

leed commented 28 March 2007 at 16:39

subscribing

Ok, bumping this up :)

FFred commented 6 April 2007 at 23:31

I too have been looking into this for a current project. Haven't found a solution so far, apart from the obvious hand edited page. OTOH I suppose that the new views/CCK tools might be used to build something along those lines. I haven't had time to look into it yet but it's on my ToDo list.

I need this for a list of the contractors for the apartment building I live in. I'm making a site so that all the tenants can keep in touch.

Wow this is an old thread!

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 9 April 2007 at 13:33

I just did a search on "business directory" because I'm about to embark on doing one in CCK/views and was curious if there was any discussion on it. Was quite surprised to find a thread started in 2003 and last added to a few days ago. LOL!

I don't have anything useful to add at this point, but wanted to track the thread. If I get something working, I'll post back.

Michelle

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My site: http://shellmultimedia.com

Listing the taxonomy terms

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 28 April 2007 at 16:13

This might be of interest to anyone doing this with CCK/views: http://drupal.org/node/139934

Michelle

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My site: http://shellmultimedia.com

CCK & Views

blairski commented 12 April 2007 at 15:15

I after a business directry also. I'm thinking about using a dedicated script, but would love to do it in Drupal. So I'm planning on giving it a go using CCK and Views. The one thing I am not sure about is how to include a facility for sponsored listing. ie where users can list their site/businees and pay a fee to go to the top of the list. Any idea how this can be done with the current modules?

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I have the same needs as you...

milohoffmann commented 5 July 2007 at 14:11

Hi blairski ,
I am about to build a business directory, it's pretty much the same as the requirements you posted on this forum.
Did you come up with any solution?What did you use in term of modules?
I hope to hear from you...
Milo Hoffmann

I have the same needs as you...

milohoffmann commented 5 July 2007 at 14:12

Rebuilding my Business Directory

tyswan commented 20 August 2007 at 01:42

I too have an existing Buisness Directory.

www.health-harmony.com.au

The site was built almost a year ago, in 4.7. The directory was built using flexinode, category, views, nodeweight, node queue.

Like others I used different node types for different subscription levels, and will be investigating a single node type, and constraining which fields appear to the user, the "ranking" of the listing in the directory, and limit the number of categories a user can select based on subscription.

The main features are that each directory entry is listed by location, and also "expertise" (what natural healers call modality). Businesses register with the site, for a free one month trial, and have permission to create and update their directory entry. After a month elapses, I invoice the businesses, and set thier ranking, based on the subscription level they have chosen.

At the moment invoicing, subscription levels, etc are done manually, and it's getting too cumbersome, so I plan to upgrade to 5.0, introduce further subscription levels, and rebuild the whole site in the next couple of months.

My plan is to use CCK and views.

I'm not a module developer, but if anyone would like to come on the journey with me, we can support each other, provide a second set of eyes to weed out those annoying bugs, etc., and learn together.

I won't be embarking on the building until October. But I'll be developing a detailed specification, researching and tinkering, and figuring out which modules I'll use as well as how to replace some of the modules I currently use (Category for example is no longer being supported and has long-standing bugs, but is crucial to my existing system).

If you'd like to be involved, I'd like to take the discussion off this thread so we can have a full discussion on all the different aspects of the development. Is there a place to do this?

Note: I'm not offering to develop a module. I'm only suggesting that we collaborate on a "recipe" for building a business directory, using some existing modules and customisation under the bonnet.

If there's no place for us to have our own forum, then I'll create a blog. Unless someone wants to set up a forum for us somewhere.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Cheers,

--
tys

BLUE MOUNTAINS health & harmony
www.health-harmony.com.au

building an alternative health & spirituality community in the Blue Mountains

Couple things...

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 20 August 2007 at 02:43

1) Category is buggy, yeah, but it _is_ still being supported and will likely be ported to 6.

2) I suggest creating a group for this at groups.drupal.org. Someone who is willing to dedicate the time to keep the group going should start it. I'll subscribe and participate some but I'm not going to commit to anything more.

Michelle

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My site: http://shellmultimedia.com

New group to discuss Business Directory implementation

tyswan commented 20 August 2007 at 10:39

1) Category is buggy, yeah, but it _is_ still being supported and will likely be ported to 6.

Okay, I didn't realise that. I've just built a drupal 5.0 site, and noticed the big exclaimer to research other options. I personally like Category, but the long standing menu thing does drive me nuts.

2) I suggest creating a group for this at groups.drupal.org. Someone who is willing to dedicate the time to keep the group going should start it. I'll subscribe and participate some but I'm not going to commit to anything more.

Well, I'll mosey on over and start us a group. We can look at building a specification list for starters. And see what happens. Like I said I won't be ready to implement anything until October, but no reason that other folks can't start the ball rolling if they're ready now.

The group is created, but awaiting moderation.
groups.drupal.org

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tys

BLUE MOUNTAINS health & harmony
www.health-harmony.com.au

building an alternative health & spirituality community in the Blue Mountains

Approved

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 20 August 2007 at 12:57

Ok, I approved it and subscribed to it.

Pity... This will probably mean the end of this, one of the longest running posts ever. ;)

Michelle

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My site: http://shellmultimedia.com

I would love to take part in

blairski commented 27 August 2007 at 09:57

I would love to take part in a group recipe effort. Together we should be able to come up with some "best practices" for setting up business directories. I'll end on over to the group now.

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what is the group called?

jenlampton

she / her

commented 10 September 2007 at 17:47

It would help if you let us know what the name of the group was, or how to find it, if you want us to join.
Since I last posted to this thread, I have created several Business Directories for Drupal, I'd love to discuss.
Jen

*~ current project: www.customerthink.com ~*

Group name

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 10 September 2007 at 19:11

http://groups.drupal.org/business-directory

Michelle

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Current project: http://couleeregiononline.com/

i'm interested in this

EHA commented 24 April 2007 at 09:33

i'm interested in this project. i'm doing several corporate sites at the moment and the solutions i've utilized so far is a combination of cck, views, nodeprofile, nodefamily, and usernodes.

while it does the trick to a certain extent, having a module dedicated for such a purpose would be the elegant, approach not to mention it would reduce system requirements.

ring me up if i can be of assistance.

I have a business directory

hectorplus commented 27 April 2007 at 01:15

I have a business directory for my site. I used cck and views: http://youfolder.com/business_directory

Youfolder.com
Share what's in your folder for the Hispanic community in Canada.

business directory

Summit commented 4 May 2007 at 21:00

Hi Hector,

Will you provide the code for your solution?
Thanks in advance,

greetings,
Martijn www.eandrium.com

How did you create your directory

jpjanze commented 16 June 2007 at 22:04

Hi Hector, it would be great to have more details on how you created your directory listing. It is very good!

jpjanze

http://www.harostreetmedia.com

what a tease :)

jamin0 commented 16 July 2007 at 01:19

what a tease :)

I am looking for the same thing. I would prefer to use whatever capabilities that drupal provides. I guess I should read up on CCK and figure out how this guy did it.

a good site

rimma commented 8 August 2007 at 07:32

Could you talk a little bit about what modules you use for this directory.
what kind of view you use for the directory home page(not the site home page).
Thanks.

Richard Ma
www.meetcampus.com

best projects

mahmut commented 28 April 2007 at 22:48

I lile buy this script. This best
Mahmut

http://www.turkiyeilan.com

I needed a module like this

Hara Kim commented 29 April 2007 at 23:13

I needed a module like this I couldnt find one really so I just used phpld..

www.hutsy.com - Search Engine, Web Directory & Online Community
www.asiankraze.com - the online asian community
www.moneymakerfuel.com - money making portal, forums
www.dexurl.com - www.justyourpet.com - www.realcasinotips.com - www.seopagerank10.com

After a bit of playing

blairski commented 3 August 2007 at 13:36

After a bit of playing around, I've figured out how to do it using CCK and Views. I'll write up a tutorial on how to do it and post a link back here. Give me a few days..

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Did you get round to writing

mokargas commented 8 August 2007 at 05:00

Did you get round to writing that tute? :)

Hi Blairski, Did you get a

mzafer commented 1 December 2007 at 20:56

Hi Blairski,

Did you get a chance to write the tutorial, If not can you please give some pointer on how to do. It will of great help to me.

Thanks
mzafer

Business Directory Module? It's already there

ivrh commented 3 August 2007 at 14:27

Hi, guys.

The trick is that Drupal already has all the functionality to build business directory. Actually it can be anything you want. Just need some experience in using CCK and Views plus a number of 3d party modules and some PHP hand coding...

Have a look at my Australian Business Directory (beta yet):
freebusinesslist.com.au

Anyone invited to register to see WHAT! registered users are being offered to do. A lot more to come...

I was really surprised when noticed the heading for this thread :)

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Nice site ian.g. I

blairski commented 3 August 2007 at 19:30

Nice site ian.g. I particular like the Google maps integration.

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This thread

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 3 August 2007 at 21:19

To be fair, this thread started in 2003, which is pre-CCK/views. :)

I agree, though. I'm doing the business directory on my community site with CCK and views. It's quite possible. I can see a need for a "do it all" module, though, if people are looking for a drop in solution. I've been considering using the classifieds module even though I could do my classifieds with cck and views as well because it has stuff like expiring nodes and other goodies all built right in. Sometimes it's nice to have it all in one module. So I can see both ways.

Michelle

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My site: http://shellmultimedia.com

Google maps integration

Summit commented 4 August 2007 at 21:21

Hi,

How did you do the google maps integration please?
Is this drupal functionality? If so which modules did you use?
I really like the setup of your site.

Greetings,
Martijn

Google Maps

ivrh commented 6 August 2007 at 04:40

Hi.
It wasn't difficult.
Gmap.module +location.module + gmap cck field. Set up gmap module and location module, then add the gmap field into required content type. When somebody submits this content type - they will be presented with Google map. Using Map Navigation buttons, they need to locate a point on the map and mouse click it. Longitude and latitude will be inserted automatically.
Then you need to create a view to show this map or to use standard blocks for displaying author map or node map. gmap.module and location.module have many built in feature to play around.

Though, it might take some time to understand how it works together.

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Looks good in terms of

mokargas commented 8 August 2007 at 05:04

Looks good in terms of functionality - and LOCAL!!! - though the design could use some work (no offense intended).

Gmap stuff is great, shows how far drupal can be bent to suit a purpose.

The thing i am struggling

blairski commented 8 August 2007 at 14:48

The thing i am struggling with is have an option for paid listings. I have tried "pay per node" with ecommerce, but with that you have to a) become a member first, b) then pay and c) then add your listing. I can see that turning off a lot of potential subscribers because it is long winded.

It would be great if people can select a free or sponsored option (perhaps as a taxonomy/term) when adding a new listing. If they have selected "sponsored", it should then direct them to paypal or similar to pay. I just can't seem to figure out how to do it that way! creating the directory itself is not a problem using cck and views, it is just this last bit.

Any ideas?

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Too easy

ivrh commented 17 September 2007 at 03:32

This is too easy.
Create and use two content types. One for paid listing and the other for free listings.

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The thing i am struggling

blairski commented 8 August 2007 at 14:50

Any ideas?

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one possible solution

jcastr1 commented 31 August 2007 at 18:09

I'm also trying to come up with a drupal + ecommerce + bussiness listing solution. I think in a possible solution you could use product and roles module, create a business listing module (shouldn't be too difficult) and when a user purchases the listing--> add a role. The listing module would then know if a user has paid for a listing he/she has the role "paid_listing".

I'm currently working on a module that will do this.

-listing.module will use the cart api.
-other modules used
-generic product module
-using ec_roles

the difficult part is the loose coupling of this solution. For example, if a user decides not to check out, then the listing would still be there, but not published (front end work).

Another challenge is calculating the total and mapping that to the role. I have a solution in mind that might work, where there is only 1 role, paid_listing. Other listings would be considered free (sponsored), and a role would guarantee that the user has paid for all his features. Features included are stored in the DB.

and last what about upgrades? Will the user be able to edit the listing and add more features later? If so then I would need to keep track of paid features as well.

This would be very valuable-YES

venusrising commented 27 August 2007 at 11:33

I think setting up a directory module like Mosets Tree that is availble for Joomla and Mambo
http://www.mosets.com/tree/

It has some really great features like the ability to vote and comment on listings. You can change the language file to reflect a name change like calling listings articles etc. There is a fast category upload in the admin and an import tool for csv import. It also comes with some modules about 5 that can pull data based on certain criteria, That way you you don't need to mess with DB calls for some nice basic functionality.

venusrising

Directory module

gmasky commented 10 September 2007 at 02:28

http://drupal.org/project/directory

This is an existing project. Maybe we can integrate business directory features into this module. I believe tat this module is currently being evaluated for new features.

What's the status?

skilip commented 14 September 2007 at 08:22

Hi all,

I'm very curious about the status of developing the business-directory module? Is there a solution yet? Is there someone working on it at the moment?

Module

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 14 September 2007 at 12:21

Hmm... I don't know if anyone is working on an actual module. Over in the business directory group, the focus seems to be making use of existing modules.

Michelle

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Drupal articles and tutorials: http://shellmultimedia.com
Current project: http://couleeregiononline.com/

Business Directory at http://couleeregiononline.com/directory

gmasky commented 15 September 2007 at 20:01

Hey Michelle,

I love your implementation of business directory with CCK and Views. I hope you share a tutorial on how you implemented this. It will be most valuable.

Good Luck
Gerry

BizWiki - the first business directory on Drupal

Yurovsky commented 16 September 2007 at 08:53

(via www.DrupalSites.net)
www.BizWiki.co.uk

Nice site

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 16 September 2007 at 13:42

Very nice looking site. I don't have time to give it a good look now, but it gives a good first impression.

The first, though? No way. :)

Michelle

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Current project: http://couleeregiononline.com/

The first PRO site, to be accurate

Yurovsky commented 17 September 2007 at 15:47

As a local business search specialist, i'm pretty sure...

Local?

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 17 September 2007 at 17:58

Oh, for your local area? That I can see. AFAIK, my business directory is the first one on Drupal in my area, too. But you made it sound like this was the first business directory ever made with Drupal. :)

Michelle

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Current project: http://couleeregiononline.com/

Proudly local :-)

Yurovsky commented 18 September 2007 at 11:00

Try to "googlize" this term: "ILM".
My knowledge isn't limited to my area.
If you think, that couleeregiononline.com is worth to be called "business directory" by PRO's (!), think again. (Or, maybe, you have another project?)
BizWiki.co.uk, on the other hand, definitely worth...

Wow, you are really rude!

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 18 September 2007 at 13:06

I think you need to "googlize" this term: "Manners".

First off, I was never suggesting mine is the first as it's not even done, yet. I'm simply saying that, considering Drupal has been around for 6 years, there is no way that your freshly launched site is the first business directory ever. Since most business sites don't make it obvious that they are done on Drupal, it's not easy to search for examples, but I know I've seen them in the past as I read the showcase forum frequently.

As to whether or not my site is "professional", one of the definitions is "Performed by persons receiving pay". I've already received money for the site and intend to monitize it further once it's finished, so it is, by definition, professional. If you're simply saying that yours is better than mine, well, I'm not interested in getting into a pissing contest.

I haven't the foggiest idea what Industrial Light and Magic has to do with this discussion.

Michelle

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Current project: http://couleeregiononline.com/

Wow, you're really should to do your homeworks!

Yurovsky commented 19 September 2007 at 11:35

1) ILM= Interactive Local Media (and not Industrial Light and Magic)

2) If you want to see Drupal-based local portal (again, i'm about PRO's), look at
www.MyClaySun.com
www.Blufftontoday.com
www.YourSouthHills.com
www.Savannahnow.com

3) It's not mine

Keep trying...

...

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 19 September 2007 at 12:04

1) I was being sarcastic. Telling someone to Google a TLA with many possible meanings is rather silly. Industrial Light and Magic happens to be the first one that comes up. "Interactive Local Media" isn't even on the first page. Perhaps you should do your own homework before telling someong to Google.

2) I've seen all those. They're all nice sites. I have no clue what that has to do with your claim that this is the first business directory ever created with Drupal in 6 years and hundreds of thousands of sites.

3) So you're being an ass about a site that isn't even yours? I guess you're just a troll then.

"Keep trying"

No thanks. I'm done wasting time on you. I don't have a staff working on my site so, if it's going to get finished, I need to work on it and not engage in pointless discussions with trolls. If you don't like my site, fine. You aren't in my target market, so I really don't care.

Michelle

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Current project: http://couleeregiononline.com/

HEY HEY HEY NOW!

bric002 commented 24 September 2007 at 13:51

Boys and girls! Can we just all get along? We are getting off topic here aren't we?

I'm here to see about Directory staying alive and being developed into something functional. How about you?

I inherited http://www.tomballtexas.com and am hoping to, with the help of Drupal, convert it in to a site that functions like phpmydirectory. Right now it is just an HTML site.

BTW – Isn’t "Interactive Local Media" just a fancy way of saying “portal”?

You both have good sites. Can we discuss where Directory should go next? Or what about an entirely new module?

Use the group

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 24 September 2007 at 14:28

On or off topic, piling more on this ancient thread when there's a group for this doesn't make a lot of sense. I suggest posting there.

I'm done with the previous discussion anyway. I don't like playing with trolls.

Michelle

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Current project: http://couleeregiononline.com/

Bizwiki

bizwiki commented 3 October 2007 at 14:38

I've only just come across this and thought it might be worth clarifying a few things.

Yurovsky, thanks for mentioning Bizwiki - very nice of you.

Michelle, I apologise that it all got a bit out of hand.

Yurovsky was, I believe, simply "announcing" Bizwiki, he/she is not in any way associated with the site - as you, Michelle, correctly concluded.

We honestly don't know if Bizwiki is the first Drupal powered directory, but I doubt it is given how long this thread has been going on. I know we were very happy that Drupal had the modules we could use as a starting point for development and it was definitely the right platform for us to base Bizwiki on.

We actually hadn't planned to formally announce it to the Drupal community until it was out of beta although I did post it on Drupalsites just to get a bit of feedback.

In any case, I wish you all the best with your directory Michelle.

Teresha
Bizwiki - the business wiki
http://www.bizwiki.com/blog/

Hello :)

Michelle

she/her

English

Wisconsin, USA

commented 3 October 2007 at 19:20

No need for you to apologize. It wasn't your fault.

Your site is very well done. When you're ready to formally announce it, I suggest doing a full writeup in the Showcase forum and point it out to a maintainer so it can get promoted to the front page.

I know my site isn't as good as yours and never would claim it is. I was just contesting the claim that it was the first. As Drupal has been around for about 6 years and I know I've seen other directory sites in the past, I knew that wasn't true. Then he started in on how my isn't professional in a "tone" that seemed very arrogant and derogatory and I took offense. Which is actually kind of funny since I'm usually the first to admit that my site is a hobby but I think it looks pretty good for being built by a non designer. :)

Anyway, I really like your site and have it bookmarked. I'd love to see a writeup on it.

Michelle

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Current project: http://couleeregiononline.com/

Thanks Michelle

bizwiki commented 5 October 2007 at 03:50

Thanks for the good idea, Michelle, we'll definitely do that.

Teresha
Bizwiki - the business wiki
http://www.bizwiki.com/blog/

Definitely +1 on the great

WorldFallz commented 9 October 2007 at 19:20

Definitely +1 on the great site and +1 on the writeup. Would love to peak under the covers on this one, great job.

directory.module

solutionsphp commented 21 October 2007 at 21:08

Y'all have seen this, right?
http://drupal.org/project/directory

My review of David Mercer's "Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals and Community Websites"

When this finishes.. will

Hara Kim commented 5 January 2008 at 20:51

When this finishes.. will someone tell me how to port my phpld directory to make my site all drupal =)

Webmaster Blog -Internet Marketing & Seo Information

droople commented 16 January 2008 at 15:13

link

Any Progress?

himagarwal commented 6 February 2008 at 12:30

Have you guys come out with something? I'm currently using free version of phplinkdirectory at Bead Directory and Wallsam Directory. It is never the less fine, until I became fan of drupal, recently.

Is there any live sites using any directory module which can be of helpful in nature. Any modules? Any information/progress on this thread will be appreciated.

You can create a business

hectorplus commented 2 March 2008 at 04:13

You can create a business directory using views, cck and contemplate. I created mine with the two modules, the contemplate module is just to customize what filed to show. Not very advanced, but it does the job, a basic business directory: http://www.tecito.com/business_directory

Tecito.com
The growing Hispanic community in Canada.

That is a nice directory and

blairski commented 7 March 2008 at 13:45

That is a nice directory and a good example of a good basic one.
Are you planning on adding features like paid listings?

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kwgossett commented 7 March 2008 at 23:49

subscribing.

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faunapolis commented 9 March 2008 at 04:40

http://www.faunapolis.org/

Hello, no have no plans on

hectorplus commented 12 March 2008 at 04:41

Hello, no have no plans on adding that feature, i would like to keep it free for now, as it is not feature rich.

Thanks

Tecito.com
The growing Hispanic community in Canada.

Subscribing

Terebinth commented 6 August 2008 at 02:51

Subscribing

TUTORIAL: How to create a directory in Drupal with CCK/Views

Ishkuk commented 30 August 2008 at 17:23

I thought this would be really difficult to do by hand using CCK/Views, but it isn't, here's how I did it:

NB: This tutorial has *not* been checked, but should provide a *rough* guide. *Please* correct me if it isn't clear!!

1. Download CCK (http://drupal.org/project/cck)
2. Download Views (http://drupal.org/project/views)
3. Navigate to Administer > Content Management > Content Types
4. Create one called "directory entry" or whatever you like
5. Go back to Administer > Content Management > Content Types
6. Click the Add field link that corresponds to your new content type
7. Select the options for your new field
8. Repeat for all necessary fields (list of fields: http://drupal.org/node/3478#comment-7858)
9. Clone one of the default views (if you have Organic Groups use the "og" view)
10. Configure the view to use the data from your directory entry content type.

Configuring the view isn't that easy, but if you check each setting and set it up right you should have a pretty good directory with RSS syndication.

This tutorial is done from memory and has not been checked, so please correct it if you have problems. My directory is very stripped-down, so posting screenshots of the view settings wouldn't be very helpful. I will subscribe to this post, so if you have any problems with this please reply!

Isaac

Has anybody successfully done this?

superdorx commented 23 October 2008 at 19:40

Thanks for the tutorial Isaac. Can anyone confirm these steps are all correct?

Thanks,
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www.superdorx.com

Working solution

jcastr1 commented 9 November 2008 at 17:44

http://www.event-solutions.com/BlackBook

While working for this Magazine I developed a solution, includes
+ecommerce module
+My own Module (The custom directory)
+forward module
+upload module
+lightbox jscript

Hi, Will you distribute your

Summit commented 9 November 2008 at 19:21

Hi,

Will you distribute your own custom directory module please?

Thanks in advance for considering this.
This is the power of Drupal I think, right?
(I did the same with my build nodeforum module www.drupal.org/project/nodeforum).

Greetings,
Martijn

Directory created by drupal

himagarwal commented 3 December 2008 at 19:25

Directory created by drupal5 at www.beaddirectory.org with help of node browser and node link module.

Hi, this tread is about

Summit commented 28 January 2009 at 23:00

Hi,

this tread is about building a directory module, isn't it? Please also support that when you show off your directory?
John Castro will you contribute your directory module to the community?

Greetings,
Martijn
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Any News on This Module?

michelleadams commented 9 February 2009 at 07:04

Hi there!
It's clear that there are a lot of interested people, but is there any ready product?

Michelle

http://lnk.uz

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WorldFallz commented 9 February 2009 at 14:33

There are so many variations on the details of a directory type site and it's so straight forward to build a directory in d6 with cck and views, I doubt very much there will be a 'directory' module.

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I second that, some other

hectorplus commented 9 February 2009 at 15:27

I second that, some other modules to consider, imageCache, filefiled.

HectorPlus.com

I agree

homeshop commented 7 December 2009 at 17:19

you don't need a directory module. You can do all you want with views, cck, filefield, profile module, advanced profile etc.

I made this business directory http://www.info-piata.ro

+1

arhak commented 21 September 2009 at 06:02

I can't commit (firewalled) but I can provide patches
where would be that project page?

Google places directory Module for drupal 6

emilcohen commented 29 March 2011 at 02:24

Is there any one who all ready build business directory Module for drupal 6
business directory Module - any other solutions ?
this is the part i'm missing on my website placeitlocal.com, i want to look the same like google maps / google places any idea?