Comments on: Essential Drupal 6 Modules You Must Use

By: keebler

keebler — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:25:34 +0000

Hey great profile on how you’ve set up Stray Rescue. I’ve taken on the design for shelter as well and had come to the same conclusions… Drupal, Contemplate, View, & webforms. I’ve got it all worked out but this – ** How are you passing the variable of the animal name (node id probably) over to the webform field “What is the name of the pet are you interested in?:”

-Thanks for a hint!

By: seth

seth — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:37:15 +0000

Great post! I am building a site that displays cooking recipes, and can’t figure out how to use Contemplate to arrange each recipe’s information. I basically want the exact same layout you used on Stray Rescue. I don’t know PHP, do you have any resources that will enable me to use the Contemplate module in the same fashion as your design?

Thanks!

By: Christo

Christo — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:38:58 +0000

Hi Chris,

love this post, and what you have done with drupal. I am interested in learning more about how you configured the Stray Rescue site, and would like to talk to you about it.

Thanks, Christo

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:35:49 +0000

It depends on how you defined that field in CCK. If you defined it as a listbox value, it should show up as a listbox when you pull it in as a filter in Views.

If you did not enter it as a list in CCK or do not want it to be a list, just show up in a drop-down on the front-end, I’m not sure what you need to do to set that up. If I have time to look at it, I can let you know what I find out.

By: Ellitot

Ellitot — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:32:36 +0000

How do you get the views filter to appear in a listbox.

On my test site I have lists of music by artist, song title, and album. I’d like to be able to filter by artist name using a dropdown listbox… but As of now, I can only filter by artist name using a text box.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Great post!

Elliott

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:45:34 +0000

Excellent showcase of what Views and CCK can do. I would be interested in reading anything you had to say about explaining contemplate. I am trying to wrap my brain around that. I would like to use Views and CCK as well as contemplate in some upcoming web projects.

Thanks in advance.

By: Audster

Audster — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:10:17 +0000

Very useful – what I can’t figure out is how to get that data off in a usable form, CSV for example.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:39:46 +0000

As far as I know, the Views 2 module does not give you the flexibility that Contemplate does for layout and code processing (if needed). However, I am wrong all the time, and this may very well be one of those times.

One thing that is great about using Views and CCK is being able to use their pre-set design patterns for layout and then using CSS to style them consistently throughout your site. Double bonus.

By: Web Design Hobart

Web Design Hobart — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:57:33 +0000

Hey Dude,
Thanks for the post on my site.
I do like your article explaining the core functionality that makes Drupal such a powerful system.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:14:50 +0000

Great post. CCK and Views truly are essential Drupal modules. I believe everything that you’ve done with Contemplate could also be done with Views though, right? It seems to be more convenient for this type of thing.

Thanks for the great information!

By the way, anyone interested in helping out on Drupal Documentation team is welcome. There’s a lot of great work going on there and the more people that chip in with great content like this the better it will be for everyone.