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How to make a complex page with several contacts ?
June 18, 2009, 12:53:21 am
Hi,

For a public part of the website, I'd like to compose complex page, for instance with an organisation and contact details and the list of all the members (individual contacts related to the organisation).

A bit too complex for profiles. Is there a better way than going the phpcoding api way ? How, ideally, this solution handles cache, to give a bit of break to mysql.

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Re: How to make a complex page with several contacts ?
June 18, 2009, 01:00:22 am
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Re: How to make a complex page with several contacts ?
June 18, 2009, 06:35:35 am

i suspect not :(

You will need to use your php/sql skills. You'll also need to handle caching on your own

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Re: How to make a complex page with several contacts ?
June 18, 2009, 07:54:10 am
If it's a Drupal install, you could look into Panels (http://drupal.org/project/panels). 

With panels you can link multiple areas of a single displayed page to SQL queries defined in Views; using the latest Views integration code you could probably achieve some mojo.  You'd likely have to work out how to pass arguments between the Views queries attached to the panels -- one thread on this here (http://groups.drupal.org/node/9770) -- so you could pull related records within the corresponding views.

I haven't had a chance to try this, though. 

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Re: How to make a complex page with several contacts ?
June 18, 2009, 10:42:15 am
If you go the Views route, which seems promising to me, you may be able to set up a relationship between org and related individuals. There are various drupal modules that work on parent / child displays (http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_search/view%20parent%20child?filters=type%3Aproject_project). HTH
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Re: How to make a complex page with several contacts ?
June 18, 2009, 02:18:55 pm
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Re: How to make a complex page with several contacts ?
June 18, 2009, 09:55:34 pm
Drupal.

Panels seems to be interesting, but seems that they have abandoned the first and second version and the 3rd one is alpha. Not sure I'd go through the beta pain to have it abandoned again ;)

I'll have a more detailed look at the view.

On most of the CMS, they are functions to fetch content from within the template. What do you think of adding an extra smarty function to call the api and assign the result, or apply a template directly to it ?

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