Chapter 5. Content types and introduction to data modeling

  • 5.1 Overview
  • 5.2 Introducing content types
  • 5.3 Drupal’s default content types: Basic Page and Article
  • 5.4 Data modeling for content types
    • 5.4.1 Data vs metadata
    • 5.4.2 Content type vs. taxonomy
    • 5.4.3 When to merge similar content types
    • 5.4.4 File types vs. content types
    • 5.4.5 User profiles vs. content types
    • 5.4.6 Drupal-based considerations for determining content types
    • 5.4.7 Drupal’s “title” field vs real-world titles
  • 5.5 Preliminary data modeling for the example site
    • 5.5.1 The data
    • 5.5.2 The goal
    • 5.5.3 Breaking down the data
    • 5.5.4 Enriching the content types
      • 5.5.4.1 Person
      • 5.5.4.2 Event
      • 5.5.4.3 Image
  • 5.6 Summary
Modules: 
Conditional Fields, Media, Automatic Nodetitles, Field Collection
Tags: 
data modeling