Question

I’ve created a new ‘jobs’ content type on my Drupal 6 site, to enable administrator to post new jobs.

The content type has a hidden field called job_type, which can have 1 of 4 possible values: Instructor, Lecturer, Manager or Support.

How do I configure Drupal to dynamically display a list of files download based on the value of the job_type field?

The required files are already on the server.

For example:

if job_type = Manager, show: file1.pdf, file2.pdf
if job_type = Support, show: file1.pdf, file3.pdf, file5.pdf
if job_type = Lecturer, show: file1.pdf, file4.pdf

Thanks

Answer 1

Look into the Computed Field module.

something like

if ($node->field_job_type[0]['value']==Manager) { 
$node_field[0]['value'] = "path_to_file1.pdf";
$node_field[1]['value'] = "path_to_file2.pdf";
}

Then configure the display to print links to the files.

There are a lot of code snippets in the documentation at http://drupal.org/node/126522