Huge PDF Database Help Needed



Hi all.

I have a HTML web site that I set up some time about that has over 500 pdfs linked to it (probably more than that, actually). On the pdf pages I have something like this:

PDF Category
• Name of file
• Name of file
• Name of file
• Name of file

PDF Category
• Name of file
• Name of file
• Name of file
• Name of file

...and so on and so on.

I have my Drupal site pretty close to being ready for the conversion with this datebase setup. I'd like to have this type of formatting with the page:

PDF Category
Name of file (tab) File Size (tab) Times Downloaded
Name of file (tab) File Size (tab) Times Downloaded
etc, etc etc.

From what I've read so far, I need to use CCK and Views to create this. That's all find and dandy ((I hope...haven't used them yet), but from what I read I have to create an individual node or field for EVERY pdf. I was hoping there was some sort of somewhat-automated task to help with this.

I'm pretty new to Drupal (only been using it for 2 days) but am a programmer at heart so I'm picking it up pretty fast. I still need to figure out if I can pull the name, file size and times downloaded from the database.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.