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Need advice on setting up my categories, vocabularies, etc. (music/equipment/clothing store)
Submitted by davidx on Wed, 08/01/2007 - 05:05
davidx
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I'm new to drupal, and have some questions (before I go and start setting up a crazy hierarchy which may not a good approach). Here's a simplified example of my store inventory taxonomies:

Products:
-Records
--7'
--10"
--12"
-CDs
--artist CDs
--dj mixed CDs
-DigitalFiles
--Singles
--Albums [Product Kit perhaps?]
-Shirts
--Mens
--Ladies
easy enough so far. a simple single hierarchy texonomy for this one it would seem.

Genres:
-House
--funky house
--old-school house
--tech-house
-Techno
--minimal techno
--tech-house
etc...
so genres would be a multiple hierarchy i think since subgenres sometimes can have attributes from more than one root genre, and, a product may contain songs of various genres.

1. Can i do this with just the Products category type? e.g. Genres does not apply to shirts,
or audio equipment. So if I define genres as a vocabulary and say it applies to Products, well what if
I don't want it to apply to Shirts (which is a Product)?
Because Genre is required for a CD, but if i say required in the vocabulary edit page (for all Products),
then it would also be required for shirts, right? (Am I making this too complicated?) Or would I be better
off defining a music product category type and a non-music product category type?

2. Why is Manufacturers a vocabulary? Why not just an attribute of a Product?

3. I saw something saying thickbox is required? But that takes literally 10 Seconds just to show an image!? And 5 Seconds just to close its 'window'. And Drupal takes 5 Seconds just to create the front page, and i have added no nodes yet. What can I strip out to make this faster? I do have a fast server (bluehost). My current site pops up in like .1 Seconds and works great even in a cell phone browser.

4. Considering my types of inventory and no need for fancy image handling, no desire for fancy thickbox sorts of bloated accessibility-hindering widgetry, do I need CCK/views/ubrowser at all? All my audio and images I just want to be plain files, referenced only by a url/link in the ubercart product description. I prefer to just ftp those files to the server. Is drupal overkill for my application?

5. What is the terminology for the equivalent of a database field in drupal? e.g. my DB has an inventory table with columns artist, title, label, audioUrl, price, etc. Would those be 'terms' in drupal or something else?

Any general tips would be greatly appreciated. (Check out my existing site for a better example of my inventory Smiling I apologize if my terminology is off, and for the dumb questions.

Thanks,
David
www.unrec.com

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permalinkWed, 08/01/2007 - 08:27
Lyle

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Hi, David. I think you're on the right track to understanding how Drupal works. I think these are good questions for you to consider.

1. I think you've answered your own question here. You'll have an easier time if you make a different product class for each type of thing you want to sell. Then your Genre vocabulary can be required for both media files and media discs and not anything else.

2. I felt like it. Eye-wink Manufacturer was a very early module, and I knew that you could group things by taxonomy easily, so I went that route.

3. Thickbox isn't required so much as recommended. If you don't need it, don't install it. Übercart can run just fine without it.

4. I suppose you really can do without CCK and images. You might still want CCK to put different fields on your products to differentiate shirts and CDs, but maybe you're not worried about that. The uBrowser, though, you really should keep. It's important if you ever have to add a product to an order. It's only used in the admin sections, so your customers won't ever have to deal with it.

5. I just call them fields. In Drupal, the focus is more on the objects that are created by rows in the database and less on the individual data fields.

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