Written by At Easytech we are using Drupal for projects which require a CMS (Content Management System). It’s very powerful, full of modules to extend the functionality and written in PHP which is a Language for which we have a lot of programming experience. For a project we are working on we used the Related Content module. This module allows you to link a particular piece of content (a node in Drupal parlance) to other content such as images, videos, audios, etc. One problem with the current implementation of the module is that it wasn’t designed to work when you have lots of content on the site. The patch we currently submitted to Drupal fixes this by separating the Related Content into a tab and adding a filter to be able to quickly locate content items. Here’s a screenshot:
If you are interested in getting the patch its here. In case you want to download a patched version of the module I have included a tar file with the latest version as an attachment in this posting. Try it out and send feedback to: miquel <at> easytech <dot> com <dot> ar.
Here’s a tar file with the patched version to try out: relatedcontent-5.x-1.1-patch.tar.gz. To install it just download it and untar it in the modules/contrib directory of your Drupal installation.
Great work, but I can’t get the content type filter to work, it just returns nodes of all types.
Sorry, also, I am running Drupal 5.2
Exposed the filter, works fine now. Once again, great work. Have you submitted this patch officially?
Okay, last thing (sorry for all the posts). How could I mod this module so that it outputs a simple linked list, without node types and such? I don’t know enough php and drupal to do it right.
Nice to know you like it. Yes, I submitted the patch but the module author seems to be quite busy so I think he hasn’t merged it. I noticed you had problems with the filters. What happened to you is really related to the views module. You must remember that whenever you expose a field you must also add it to the filters section.
Regarding your last question, if you mean in the related node tab, no, there is no easy way to modify that. You can do it but you will need to modify the module code. Maybe in the future I can modify it again to allow you to theme the node list. Thanks for your feedback.
Thanks for the response! I wish I new enough Drupal php to mod that myself. It would be really great if it had drop down a la views for node/teaser/list. Anyway, keep up the good work!
Fantastic patch. Thank you.
Would there be a way of sorting the related content by weight so as to prioritise the listing of the teasers??
Nope, not at the moment. Sorry. The related content module does not suppor this so I would have to hack this a bit more (add fields to the database tables, etc.) to make it work. I might do it in the future.