March 1, 2008 - 10:32am
Never Give Up, Never Surrender
Sometimes I get too much like Buzz Lightyear. I want to work at it forever. If you can do everything you need to do with Joomla then by all means do it with Joomla. I'm not kidding.
If you are looking to make custom menus try this on. Make a menu in admin > build > menus. Then, go to the blocks menu (admin > build > blocks), click on configure for the block for this menu and you will see an area that lets you display that block based on a path or a php statement. After you have that setup you can enable the block in the region you want. Is that what you were looking for?
Then it come to displaying info based on taxonomy that is somewhat straight forward. In one of your node.tpl.php files put this in...
<pre>
<?php print_r($node); ?>
</pre>You will see that the taxonomy is one of the elements. So you can do something like:
<?php
if ($node->taxonomy[$tid]) :
?>$tid is the id of the term you are trying to check on. I just did this off the top of my head so double check this.
Hope this helps.
Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.innovatingtomorrow.net
www.mattfarina.com
March 1, 2008 - 11:30am
Here is an example of what Matt was talking about
http://geoffhankerson.com/node/39
An example of a taxonomy (category based) site architecture for a Drupal site.
An other method is the node hierarchy module.
http://drupal.org/project/nodehierarchy - this may be more robust than the above method in the link but I am just learning about it myself
March 1, 2008 - 2:40pm
Thanks!
Thanks for the help guys! Matt - I would love to stick with Joomla, but there are certain limitations that I would like to try Drupal to get around. Joomla has trained me, in a way, to design my websites a certain way, and its just a matter of stepping back and thinking about how I can do the same thing in a different way.
March 2, 2008 - 8:33pm
I figured it out!
My custom code looks like this, in case anyone wants to do this:
<?php $term_id_tida = 1; $term_id_tidb = 2; $term_id_tidc = 3; $term_id_tidd = 4; $term_id_tide = 5; if (isset($node->taxonomy[$term_id_tid_a])): ?>
<div class="leftw">
<?php elseif (isset($node->taxonomy[$term_id_tidb])): ?>
<div class="leftc">
<?php elseif (isset($node->taxonomy[$term_id_tidc])): ?>
<div class="leftt">
<?php elseif (isset($node->taxonomy[$term_id_tidd])): ?>
<div class="leftm">
<?php elseif (isset($node->taxonomy[$term_id_tide])): ?>
<div class="leftp">
<?php else: ?>
<div class="leftg">
<?php endif; ?>
So, I've been working with Joomla for about 2 years now. It took a little bit to get used to, but I have been able to kick out some pretty fun sites (Youth Site -- Personal Site). I've been able to make them pretty interactive, but I have felt held back in certain areas.
So I have been trying out Drupal for my churches new website. Eventually, I would like to try to make the site more community driven, but in the meantime, I wanted to make a site that looks clean, communicates our values, and will be open for minimal news/events added. But that is just to launch. Then I would like to create the community features like groups, etc, down the line.
I designed the look I wanted in Joomla, but would like to try to migrate it Drupal. After lots and lots of hours of messing around, I've become pretty stumped in a few areas:
<?php if ($block->subject): ?>to display something if there is a subject.I'm in danger of giving up on Drupal!
If you want to take a look at my site to test it out, I'll post both my Drupal and Joomla versions. They are very early so many of the links, etc do not work - and I haven't css'ed it for IE yet, so if you're using that...it probably won't display right.
Thanks for the input/help.