Yahoo! Answers like Functionality
DayShallCome - February 28, 2007 - 04:59
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.
questions module
Yahoo! Answers does a lot. For basic submission of questions, have you looked at the questions module?
Yup, I've looked at it, and
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?
My approach to this
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.
"Best Answer"
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?
May be possible with Action
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
That Voting Actions thing
That Voting Actions thing seems perfect, because in the description it says that a usage example would be:
So if one
* Makes comments nodes
* Installs voting system
* Installs Voting Actions
then that should be about it!
topic module
http://drupal.org/project/topic
it has most of the functionality, but only available for 4.6
someone would like to help upgrade it ?
lets have yahoo answers
it wld be nice if more people pitched in to get yahoo answers features on drupal.
I agree
I have been looking for something similar
Answers
There's an Answers project (though there are no releases yet):
sounds like the thing
but where do we get it :)
The answers module is available now.
I did a quick test and made some screenshots here. Overall I think this is a very nice module.
subscribing
subscribing
Yahoo Answer
Here's a drupal website that tries to create something like yahoo answers:
http://www.howwhatwho.com/
so how they have created it
so how they have created it ?
It looks like HowWhatWho
It looks like HowWhatWho only allows voting on the questions and not the answers.
I think they implemented
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
yahoo answers clone
http://www.programmingfaqs.com