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Drupal 7 Social Networking

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Drupal 7 Social Networking

Overview of this book

Drupal is ideally equipped to serve as a base system for creating a custom social networking site like Facebook or MySpace. While these large social networks have their place, niche social networking websites can help promote businesses, products, projects, and hobbies of any nature. Drupal 7 Social Networking provides careful instructions and clear explanations to take you through the setup and management of your social network site, covering topics from users, to marketing, to maintenance. It will help you create your own social networking site, suitable for whatever audience you choose! Starting from the very basics of both Drupal and Social Networking, right through to more complicated aspects, you will progressively learn how to add to and expand your social networking site and add more features. You will learn how to secure your social network, deploy it on the Internet, and keep it running and well maintained. As social networking sites rely on the participation of their users, this book helps you to structure your site in such a way so that users can easily and enjoyably contribute, thus creating a powerful social network.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Drupal 7 Social Networking
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Starting to build our site


Now that we have a basic plan of our site's static content, we can start to build the static elements of our site.

Using taxonomy

Let's start with taxonomy. Since this is a way of categorizing content, it makes sense to set this up before we start creating content.

Creating the vocabulary

We need to go to Structure | Taxonomy | Add vocabulary to define a group of terms to categorize our content with. Enter a name of Dinosaur Breed and a description of specific breed of dinosaur, before clicking the Save button. We will use this to categorize content which relates to specific breeds of dinosaur:

With the vocabulary created, we now need to add terms to it, using the add terms link:

Here we can add the various breeds of dinosaur to the vocabulary using the create term form:

Now that we have a new vocabulary with terms associated with it, we need to link it to the appropriate content types. We need to go to Structure | Content types | Basic page | Manage fields.

From here...