i have a decent understanding of configuring drupal and using modules for basic stuff, but just getting into module development and overriding functions and stuff due to my very basic understanding of php and mysql.
i have a custom content type (‘books’) and a 3 cck field for genres (primary, secondary, tertiary). i’d like a user to be able to filter a view of all books with one exposed multi-selectable ‘genre’ filter. that’s where i’m stuck– i understand how to have three exposed filters for the 3 genre ‘weights’ (primary, secondary, tertiary)–i want one filter that would allow users to select any or all of those weights.
is a custom search form my only option? was there a better way to set things up? would i have been better off using one cck field for ‘genres’ with multiple entries? i ruled this out because i thought it would be harder to determine the genre ‘weight’ (primary, secondary, tertiary).
thanks a million.
Jergason has a good point saying that taxonomy would probably be a good fit for your fields. However this wouldn’t solve your problem of weighted genres.
A possible (though hacky) solution would be to have a fourth field which combined the values of the other three which is only set when a node is saved. This field could then be used for searching.
The non hacky solution is to write your own views filter but this is very advanced.
There may be a way to do this with views out of the box it is flexible, hopefully someone else knows of an easier non hacky solution.