The story module lets your users submit articles for consideration by the rest of the community, who can vote on them if moderation is enabled. Stories usually follow a publishing flow of submit -> moderate -> post to the main page -> comments. Administrators are able to shortcut this flow as desired.
In administer » settings » story you can set up an introductory text for story authors, and a floor on the number of words which may be included in a story. This is designed to help discourage the submission of trivially short stories.create stories: Allows a role to create stories. They cannot edit or delete stories, even if they are the authors. You must enable this permission to in order for a role to create a story.
edit own stories: Allows a role to add/edit stories if they own the story. Use this permission if you want users to be able to edit and maintain their own stories.
", array('%story-config' => url('admin/settings/story'))); case 'node/add/story': return variable_get('story_help', ''); case 'node/add#story': return t('A story is similar to an article and usually gets promoted to the front page. If you want to post news items, articles or maintain a group blog, use stories.'); } } /** * Implementation of hook_settings(). */ function story_settings() { $output .= form_textarea(t('Explanation or submission guidelines'), 'story_help', variable_get('story_help', ''), 70, 5, t('This text will be displayed at the top of the story submission form. It is useful for helping or instructing your users.')); $output .= form_select(t('Minimum number of words'), 'minimum_story_size', variable_get('minimum_story_size', 0), drupal_map_assoc(array(0, 10, 25, 50, 75, 100, 125, 150, 175, 200)), t('The minimum number of words a story must be to be considered valid. This can be useful to rule out submissions that do not meet the site\'s standards, such as short test posts.')); return $output; } /** * Implementation of hook_node_name(). */ function story_node_name($node) { return t('story'); } /** * Implementation of hook_perm(). */ function story_perm() { return array('create stories', 'edit own stories'); } /** * Implementation of hook_access(). */ function story_access($op, $node) { global $user; if ($op == 'create') { return user_access('create stories'); } if ($op == 'update' || $op == 'delete') { if (user_access('edit own stories') && ($user->uid == $node->uid)) { return TRUE; } } } /** * Implementation of hook_menu(). */ function story_menu($may_cache) { $items = array(); if ($may_cache) { $items[] = array('path' => 'node/add/story', 'title' => t('story'), 'access' => user_access('create stories')); } return $items; } /** * Implementation of hook_validate(). * * Ensures the story is of adequate length. */ function story_validate(&$node) { if (isset($node->body) && count(explode(' ', $node->body)) < variable_get('minimum_story_size', 0)) { form_set_error('body', t('The body of your story is too short. You need at least %words words to submit your story.', array('%words' => variable_get('minimum_story_size', 0)))); } } /** * Implementation of hook_form(). */ function story_form(&$node) { $output = ''; if (function_exists('taxonomy_node_form')) { $output .= implode('', taxonomy_node_form('story', $node)); } $output .= form_textarea(t('Body'), 'body', $node->body, 60, 20, '', NULL, TRUE); $output .= filter_form('format', $node->format); return $output; } ?>