By DayShallCome on

I'm trying to add a Yahoo! Answers type functionality to my website Yahoo! Answers. Anyone have any idea how I can go about associating an infinite number of "answers" to a question? Thanks.

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Christefano-oldaccount commented

Yahoo! Answers does a lot. For basic submission of questions, have you looked at the questions module?

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DayShallCome commented

Yup, I've looked at it, and it seems interesting. However, it doesn't seem scalable to the point of having multiple Answers, and having each of these Answers rated by other users. How would I associate a certain Node type to another, the way Answers are related to Questions?

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Christefano-oldaccount commented

My approach to this would be using a combination of Node comment, CCK and a voting package like Node Vote.

Node comment turns comments into nodes and CCK allows you to create a custom content type to use for comments (and questions, for that matter). Node Vote lets users vote on those comment nodes.

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B747 commented

This seems workable - but then we'd also need something to happen like after 30 days, the answer with the highest score becomes the "Best Answer" and the comment becomes a sticky, or something like that.
Would this be possible?

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toma commented

May be possible with Action and voting Action modules

* Actions http://drupal.org/project/actions
* Voting Actions http://drupal.org/node/46895

Check out the vote up down package to have an idea

http://drupal.org/project/vote_up_down

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B747 commented

That Voting Actions thing seems perfect, because in the description it says that a usage example would be:

makes the node sticky if more than 50 people rate it a 10.

So if one
* Makes comments nodes
* Installs voting system
* Installs Voting Actions

then that should be about it!

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madjr commented

http://drupal.org/project/topic

it has most of the functionality, but only available for 4.6

someone would like to help upgrade it ?

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gurukripa commented

it wld be nice if more people pitched in to get yahoo answers features on drupal.

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zokazola commented

I have been looking for something similar

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Christefano-oldaccount commented

There's an Answers project (though there are no releases yet):

This module adds a question & answer service to your site. Users are able to post their question and receive answers from others. Once a satisfactory answer has been posted the user can accept the answer and close the question.

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gurukripa commented

but where do we get it :)

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xjs commented

I did a quick test and made some screenshots here. Overall I think this is a very nice module.

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okday commented

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Marcelb commented

Here's a drupal website that tries to create something like yahoo answers:
http://www.howwhatwho.com/

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Pushkar Gaikwad commented

so how they have created it ?

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christefano commented

It looks like HowWhatWho only allows voting on the questions and not the answers.



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Marcelb commented

I think they implemented that a few weeks ago, when did you see the website last time?
Also ICQ.com has created some sort of yahoo answers like website. Are they also using drupal ? looks like it to me .... but I'm not sure

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shashi_bi commented

http://www.programmingfaqs.com

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ibexy commented

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Yuki commented

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