Tenar
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| Drupal question
I'm doing a side project / blog thing and I want to use Drupal. I don't have much experience with it though as I would usually just write my own CMS.
I want to have some custom database fields to go along with certain page types. For example, I want do a review of a product and I want to store the rating as a separate int.
I'm looking for some direction on how to go about doing this. Do I need a custom module or template or can I do this with some plug-ins? |
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TearAbite
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| if you plan on using Drupal for a while I would recomment finding a module that does what you need instead of trying to monkey with the core - or, write your own module (dont touch the core!).
For ratings i believe there are several modules to choose from. Have you checked through the Module pile at Drupal.org? |
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Tenar
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I feel like such a newb here  you'll have to forgive me.
I've looked though some of them, for example, it looks like this module might do what I want:
»drupal.org/project/views_customfield
so I'm going to try that.
So far I've managed to install a theme and turn on some other modules. But the administrator interface is a lot more tricky than I expected.
If I create a block, can I insert php code into it and have it exicute? |
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1 edit | A great non-programmer start would be to read the Using Drupal book. There is an example that combines modules for amazon products, 5-Star rating module, and such to produce a review.
The book example is at »reviews.usingdrupal.com/
Its a good way to explore the Drupal CMS quickly.
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said by Tenar  :If I create a block, can I insert php code into it and have it exicute? YES - as long as you set the Input Format of the block contents to "php".
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There's a rating module called "five stars" or something like that that allows users to give 1 to 5 stars like a Youtube rating. is that what you're talking about?
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Tenar
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| said by dibbb :There's a rating module called "five stars" or something like that that allows users to give 1 to 5 stars like a Youtube rating. is that what you're talking about? Yeah sort of, I'm sure I will have other custom fields I will want to put in though. I don't want everything to be in a text field in the database. I'll want to sort and display different types of data.
I usually work with custom CMS (at my work we write our own in CFML) so I know what I want the program to do, but this time I want to learn how to do it using this CMS.
Thanks for all the advice, I'm going to look more carefully at the modules that are available. |
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