Hello, I moved from Joomla 1.0.12 to Drupal 5, and was incredibly impressed!
I have spent years developing Joomla sites, but wasn't able to come to grips with a site that was aesthetically beautiful, functional, and programmatically solid behind the scenes.
I am trying to create a community based site, and have found a plethora of neat features, but need guidance as to which modules and mixtures thereof will provide the best overall user experience.
I have browsed the following forum topics about the matter:
- Customizing the user profile layout (http://drupal.org/node/35728)
- Change audio player in 4.7 (http://drupal.org/node/34043)
- Tentative Guide for SSL Logins on Drupal Multisite (http://drupal.org/node/37932)
- What gallery for Drupal 5.x? (http://drupal.org/node/107579)
Here are my main concerns:
- SSL encryption on the entire site (or just login and sensitive pages if the SSL will slow down browsing too much).
- Multiple images in the user profile
- A way to display module information inside the user profile as a "tabbed" area... i.e. which groups they have joined, which events they have registered for... etc...
- Using a different .swf player for the audio module, specifically the player from jeroenwijering.com
If you don't mind I will break down some concerns for each question in the hopes that I can understand and implement these features, and that someone like me might discover how to do so more easily.
- SSL encryption: I used the secure pages module in the hopes that I would find a quick end all solution, but didn’t. My SSL is registered to http://www.mysite.com, and the module redirects to http://mysite.com. I needed a way to include the “www” in the redirect, while ensuring that clean URLs worked and none of the other modules would break.
- Multiple images in user profile: I tried the image module but couldn’t figure out how to allow users to view a “gallery” of their images in their profile. A user can currently post to the front page, but it would be nice to view them in their profile only, and allow them to easily edit and upload from the backend. I was hoping to allow them to comment on each other’s images as well.
- Module info inside user profiles: I came from using Community Builder 1.0.2 in Joomla, and am trying to find matching solutions for Drupal. I need a way to display user specific module information in their profile, via tabs.
- Using a different .swf player for the audio module: First off, the audio module is beautiful… and works like a charm, I never had something like this working for Joomla so effortlessly. I read through the forum post about this, but wanted to know if it had been done successfully on Drupal 5?
That’s it for the main questions, I was also looking for a neat invite system that tied into the points system, and a way to display a user selected RSS feed directly in their profile.
Thanks very much for your time!
Comments
Multiple images in user
You can try
http://www.lullabot.com/articles/how_to_build_flickr_in_drupal
Invite
http://drupal.org/project/invite
User points
http://drupal.org/project/userpoints
Invite and user points can work together
I think you can make that with "views" and arguments so you can past data only show on user page
Audio requirement
I believe there is a media module for Drupal, but I'd first recommend installing the TinyMCE module, and then enable the TinyMCE 'media' plugin. It handles a variety of media types and I am very pleased with it. This doesn't use the Flash player you reference, but it might be persuaded to do so with some custom work.
you can change the audio
you can change the audio player by overridring the .inc file in template.php. to understand the theme layer, have a look at the theme function of each player, to see how each player is being brough into the module. You can then over ride it at the theme layer or create an entirely new .inc file to handle the player you are considering.
Using TinyMCE for this, will not give you as many features as the audio.module