Community Site
cregy - October 25, 2007 - 19:26
Hi
I want to build a community site for around 10 users although it could increase! The site will allow users to edit a profile page about them and also upload photos. However, when they log in I want them to be able to only edit their profile page and also only their photos. I also want to scale back admin menus so all they see is these items on a menu. Is it possible with Drupal please?
Thanks
Rich
Yes
Yes :)
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What you ask can be simply done with core and the image.module (in the downloads area)
scaling back of admin menus is a core feature the only person who will see that menu item is the 1st created user (super admin) unless you set permissions for users to be admin of site by assigning ALL permissions.
as the previous users stated, until you get Drupal installed and begin "playing" with it, it will be hard for you to visualize what any one here will say.
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total overkill
I've been studying Drupal for the last few days; about 40 hours reading in total, without even hardly touching the software itself. For what you need, and judging by your questions, in my opinion this is NOT the CMS for you. This is a monster that will take months of study to get to a point where you can get your site up and running the way you would like it to work. Unless you are interested in being a web developer and learning html/css/php/js etc. I would not risk wasting any of your time with Drupal. I hope the guys here don't mind me recommending an easier cms for you, like e107, websitebaker, simplecms or even something like joomla (even though I don't like that one myself).
I might be wrong; maybe in a few more days I'll start to think Drupal isn't so hard to understand. But in the time I've spent just trying to understand Drupals concepts, I've actually had websites up-and-running in the other CMS I mentioned. For a small clan site (sounds like what you're building) Drupal is total overkill for you.
How can you judge by reading
How can you judge by reading manuals?
Just install it and you will see that it is really easy!
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I installed it four days
I installed it four days ago. I started to play with it, and within minutes I had 10 questions that needed an answer before I continued to even think about visualising a site in Drupal. Those 10 developed into hundreds, and I haven't touched my installation since. I've been reading about Drupal for about eight hours a day for the last four days. My first site will be for a school, and I cannot take any chances that this is outwith my skillset or time constraints. Plus, I need to be sure pupils as young as 7 (and the somewhat incompetent teachers) can use it, and are actually motivated to use it. I have tons of reservations about multi-language content, security, privacy, useability, functions, and themeing.
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the reservations are minimzed once you begin to mold Drupal. Drupal is like playdoh, if you just leave it in a can and stare at it all you see is the can. It isn't until its taken out of the can and manipulated that it can be turned into something other then a lump of putty.
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But could Playdoh be molded
But could Playdoh be molded into a replica of the EIffel Tower? There is no point in opening the tin and spending months failing to do it, if a few days research could have saved you the bother. Apart from worrying whether Drupal can actually do what is needed, I have serious reservations whether I have the skill to make it do what is needed. This is like a CMS with no backend; you have to build your backend before you even get started!
Ahhh... but that playdoh smell takes me back though. :)
wow
4 days? For a CMS? And that qualifies you to tell people not to use Drupal in the forums?
A full evaluation of a complex product you've never used in four days? Wow. Drupal is definitely not for you. I tell people 3 weeks to 3 months depending on what their skill and goals are.
For educational stuff, I hesitate to even mention it but see the DrupalEd distro.
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You're right
>> I tell people 3 weeks to 3 months depending on what their skill and goals are.
You're right, which is exactly why I'm telling this guy to try something else.
e107 out the box had me adding content to a website two hours after downloading it.
This guy wants a clan site for 10 people; why would he want to spend three months with Drupal?
Drupal is obviously for developers or people who want to be developers; I only need one day to tell me that! :)
The first thing I did was download DrupalEd. It is responsible for me even considering Drupal. But I'd rather start from scratch and build up to something like that, as opposed to trying to disect how it was put together. Handy to know which modules they used though.
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To possibly learn something. I don't think you are arrogant. You seem very much like the atypical fast food type of person. Order it off a menu numbered 1 through 10, have it in 30 seconds or less, Unwrap and eat. All done without much thought.
If Drupal isn't for you, move on. I don't mean that in a harsh way either. It sure beats stopping during your 40 hours of "study of drupal" to make negative comments on a consistent basis. The time you are wasting making these comments without any real understanding of the script itself seems rather fruitless.
Criticism is one thing, but that isn't what you are offering in your posts & comments with your narrow view of what drupal should or shouldn't be.
Lastly, you can be adding content to Drupal out of the box just like e107, it doesn't take 3 weeks or 3 months to do so. Development and continued learning toward a better understanding can come later. Something about e107 and other scripts that you've worked with evidentally haven't "totally" won you over. Otherwise you wouldn't have joined the ranks of Drupal newcomers.
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>> To possibly learn
>> To possibly learn something
Doesn't seem like that's what he wants to do.
>> If Drupal isn't for you, move on.
Well, that's the frustration isn't it? 40 hours later and I still don't know.
But I take your point. I won't try to 'help' anyone anymore. Sorry.
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His sole question was "Is what I am asking possible with Drupal"?
I'm not sure I see how your response was "helpful" with regards to the question being asked.
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What happened to the comment
What happened to the comment with the axes? You been editing again? :)
>> His sole question was "Is what I am asking possible with Drupal"?
He also said it was a site for ten people to simply maintain a profile/gallery. So if someone asked 'can this Ferrari take me to the shops round the corner' you'd simply just answer 'yes' and sell them the car, rather than suggest something that suited their needs better? Half the battle is choosing the right tools, and I actually stand by my original advice although apparently I'm not allowed to because I'm new here. ;)
Look I'm sorry - I gave advice when I'm obviously not qualified to. Lets leave it at that.
I won't do it again.
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Since you seem stuck on the fact that I edit to rephrase or file the rough edges off my posts. I'll state for the record that I do it with a good 90% of my posts. Note the fact that I do not do it "after" you comment, only before, which can be seen with timestamps. Though thanks for noticing.
I also note that you tend to paraphrase
the OP also said:
If the desire is a ferrari who am I to suggest a Yugo ?
better is subjective. One may wonder, if you deem it to be better, why aren't you continuing to use it? If you endorse the product you certainly should. If you are moving away from the product or thinking of moving away from the product wouldn't that show some level of hypocrisy on part of the endorser ?
Let's use playdoh as an example: (since you liked it in an earlier example)
speaker says: "Fundoh is better then playdoh"
Speaker is caught in his leisure time playing with playdoh instead of fundough. what's that say for the endorser ? : )
There is no need to apologize, The comments are merely to try and educate you in one way or another. If those who commented didn't care they wouldn't respond at all.
Ultimatley the choice is yours. You can continue down this type of path, or you can begin asking more questions about Drupal and how it works so that those questions can be answered in hopes of lifting the fog that may be making it difficult for you to see clearly the path in the trees that you are hoping to follow.
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I didn't say 'better'
I didn't say 'better'. I said:
>> I hope the guys here don't mind me recommending an easier cms for you
I love e107 and will continue using for other sites. However, for one particular site I was wondering whether a more organic, community-focused site would be better than the traditional forum-orientated type. As I've been saying... finding the right tool for the job is important.
I know Drupal is powerful - I've seen some nice sites. What I'm not so sure about is how much effort and skill is required to get there. So far I've put much, much more effort into Drupal than I've had to put into any other software, and I still haven't got anywhere near adding my first content (see other questions pending - although you probably don't feel like answering them).
Anyway, what's wrong with playing with fundoh because it's stretchier and playdoh because it smells nice?
Who said it had to be a competition?
Thankyou for taking the time to educate me. I do appreciate it, despite what you may think.
huh?
Double post?? Hey I found a bug!
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not a bug, you hit post comment twice. Though for your own site there is a module that can stop that from happening in the downloads area, it's name escapes me at moment though. I believe it may have been relieved in Drupal 6 as well though I"ve not tested for it.
I also think you need to reread this comment of yours: http://drupal.org/node/186635#comment-286772 where you will find the use of the word better with your analogy using the Ferarri. ; )
Easier is also a subjective term.
edit: the module written about in parapgraph #1 is called dblclick.module.
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Ah ok, but suiting needs
Ah ok, but suiting needs better is way different from saying software is better.
I didn't press the button twice, but there was some kind of Matrix black-cat deja-vu type moment.
How small do thses comment boxes go, anyway?
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Does software not suit needs ?
depends solely on your Screen Resolution ; )
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Needs are different, so you
Needs are different, so you use software which suits. Are you trying to impy that Drupal is the only software that anyone ever needs? That would be foolish, would it not?
Seriously... how small do these comment boxes go?
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The user asked about Drupal. Drupal does indeed do what he asked to do of it. Thus the implications were certainly about what Drupal could do for his request.
Seriously, depends on your Screen Resolution. At this stage the sentences are still 13 words long before breaking to the next line for me. Though I suppose, they can reduce to one word per line if necessary.
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My posts & comments are usually dripping with sarcasm.
If you ask nicely I'll give you a towel : )
If someone went to the e107
If someone went to the e107 site and asked me, 'can e107 handle a site for my university of 30,000 students?', I would say, 'yes it could, but another more robust CMS might be more suitable.' That's just an honest answer which may save a person a lot of time and pain in the long run. There is a difference between software 'being able to do something' and it 'being suited for that purpose'. Again, I apologise for having an honest opinion based on a few days experience.
Shouldn't the comments reset to a larger size before that happens? They would in e107. :P
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I can see you and I aren't going to see eye to eye, and the altering of context isn't helping.
I went through your tracker to answer other questions you've had that others hadn't already responded to.
Drupal is not e107, yes, it's templating system is different, yes its structure is different. Though this is no different then any other script on the market.
I highly suggest watching some of the videocasts done on Drupal and using google to pull some of the conferences that have been taped. Doing so may shed some light on where Drupal is and is going.
As a result you may find that Drupal at this stage isn't for you. I am assuming Drupal buzz is what brought you here and you just don't understand the buzz yet. Most newcomers don't, it isn't til you get your hands dirty that you can begin to understand based on your own levels of already existing knowledge. When you can recite Drupal just like you can e107 structure.
Good luck with your endeavors.
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If you ask nicely I'll give you a towel : )
Thankyou.
Thankyou.
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Drupal core with profiles module. If core profile module is to limited you could look at the Bio module or the MySite module which have additional methods to accomplish this.
User galleries are more complicated. You could look at Acid Free or something like this with cck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
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