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I’m after developing a directory within our site along the lines of the following functionality :

Thames Gateway

is this possible with EE or would it require some custom coding around the full version ?

thanks

The alpha shouldn’t be a problem- see this wiki entry.  It’s not purely ‘out of the box’- but it’s easy enough to do with the query module.  So- a wee bit of custom coding, but no custom modules/plugins or anything.

As to the category navigation/filtering, it will depend a bit on what you need to do.  Is it pretty much a replication of that dropdown on the right?  Looks like you choose an option from each of two categories and can then search within those selections by keyword?  You could get very close by using the search module- would need to tweak a bit.  And it depends on whether or not the keyword is required how it would work.

Or- to put it more simply- with a bit of custom coding, it’s easy enough to create a dropdown of categories- and return only entries that are in both categories.  It’s also pretty easy to use the search module to allow them to select two categories and search within those categories for a keyword- but the search method wouldn’t return anything if no keyword were entered.  Also- it would treat the two categories as an ‘OR’ rather than an ‘AND’.

Heh.  So- it’s doable, but how and how hard would depend a bit on the specifics. 

You might want to try a trial version- you’d want the hosted one if you’re playing with the query module, as it doesn’t come with the Core install.  That said, the Core would be the way to go if you suspect you may need to tweak the search to fall in line with your needs.

Make sense?

okay what about the A | B| | C ETC. choices as well - could this work the same way (along the top) ?...ah scrub that just read what you meant by alpha !! DOH!

LOL- yep, the A | B | C bit is actually the easiest to do.  No problems there using the query module to get it done.