Dug cck and views 2010

Photo by Montrasio International CCK & Views ASU Drupal Users Group April 2008 / April 2010

Content Creation Kit • Use to: • Create new content types • Add and organize additional ﬁelds to the node creation form • Simple content display controls

Views • Views are sets of content • Creating a view is like building a database query on your nodes. • Use Views to: • Create displays of sets of content • Provide a UI to ﬁlter sets of content

Creating a book catalog • Content types: publisher, author, book • Views: publishers, authors, books

Publisher content type • Fields: • Name (title) • Description (body)

Author content type • Fields: • Name (title) • Biography (body) • Birth date (date)

Book content type • Fields: • Title (title) • Description (body) • Author (node reference) • Pages (number) • Publisher (node reference) • Publish date (date) • ISBN (text) • Cover image (imageﬁeld)

Catalog view • Show: title, author, description, cover, publish date • Filter by: author, publish date

Further refinements • Don’t forget about taxonomies: • Book genre (non-fiction, sci-fi, mystery, etc.) • Book format (paperback, hardcover, etc.) • What else?

Theming the output • CCK: Use the theme layer and / or Panels • Views: Use Theme Information from View to get sample template ﬁles

Things to keep in mind • Keep content types as generic as possible. Use taxonomies to differentiate when reasonable. i.e. Just “book” not “non-ﬁction book” • Conversely, use new content types when taxonomies aren’t “enough.”

CCK + Views • Events and events calendars • Podcasts • Galleries • Course catalog • Directory

Links • CCK and Views modules • Imageﬁeld module • Fileﬁeld module • Date module • Views Bulk Operations • Full list of CCK-related modules

Dug cck and views 2010

by Jeff Beeman on Jun 22, 2010

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