Adding additional fields to a drigg story

Posted April 4th, 2008 by dougs

I'd like to extend drigg in a few different ways without affecting the core drigg (and complimentary) modules.

For example:
- On the story submission page, I may want to change the fields and have an additional dropdown field.. or remove something else (say the categories field and have them all default to a single category).

Without specifics in mind, how would you suggest going about this? Should I use the hook_form_alter from the forms API?

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Interested in something similar

On April 6th, 2008 VL said:

I'd love to learn more about this as well (whether using hook_form_alter or some other method).

Depends...

On April 7th, 2008 admin said:

Hi,

I would personally go the hook_form_alter way. I use it all the time.

However, I am a programmer. I am bound to program when there's no need :-D

While I think it makes sense to use the hook to change for example existing fields, in order to _add_ fields I would look into CCK (which I don't know at _all_).

Bye,

Merc.

I haven't spent much time

On April 7th, 2008 dougs said:

I haven't spent much time looking at the CCK route.. what benefits would it provide?

Not sure

On April 9th, 2008 admin said:

Hi,

CCK is meant to be used by people with no programming skills!
THat's the only advantage I think...

Merc.

CCK

On April 29th, 2008 chrislabeard said:

I've added the CCK fields but i need to know where or what i need to do to make them show up on the stories. Any information would help thank you.

Replying to myself...

On April 9th, 2008 admin said:

Hi,

Yes there is:

http://drupal.org/project/akismet

It should work with Drigg! Please test it and let us know...

Merc.