By ofridagan on

Hello Drupalers!

I have been using Drupal for a few projects before, but I was wondering whether Drupal is the best choice for my next project.
I need to create a community website, based on a virtual trading game. This means I want to allow my members to participate in an online trading game of stocks.

Do you think Drupal is the right framework for this one? Or should I go for something like Ruby on Rails?

Thanks!

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dgil commented

Well Drupal will help you administering users and creating sections for the site as you may already know. Then the question is... how does this game will work? You could make PHP classes to provide the game's functionality and then simply use Drupal APIs to relate it to user specific information in a secure and professional way, don't you think?

Moreover if you wanted to add more functions to your site as purchasing e-money (e-commerce) or whatever you can ease up the job with Drupal. Looks to me that you need to focus first on your project data architecture rather than in PHP or RoR. Finally, keep in mind that PHP is more extensible than RoR (that's why the Twitter guys have had a lot of problems administering their site's growth).

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ofridagan commented

I'm sorry for the long delay in response...
Thank you! that was very helpful!

I did decide taking this challenge with Drupal... mostly because I just love this framework :)
I was thinking of relaying on the Drupal content types for the data structure of the game (like "stock", etc).
And using "Profiles" to store data about my users, such as the amount of cash they have.
I even started creating "Relations" to indicate the relations between the entities (like a user-own-stock).
What do think?

Now I need to figure how to add a little form on the stock page, that allows a user to buy it...
How would you do that Drupal style?

Thanks a lot!