Social networking Forbes website
remirando - March 8, 2008 - 23:56
i'm new here and i really like drupal , i heared about it from a lot of forums and i can feel its power:)
i visited the Drupal driven website http://officepranks.forbes.com
i found :
1- a profile creator module
2- internal messaging
3- connection between members
4- instant messaging
does all those module exists or they create some of them from scratch, i would like to create the same thing for my university students and i would like to add:
5- video gallery
6- photo gallery
7- music gallery
but i don't know if Drupal modules can satisfy my needs for that website.
thanks in advance
All modules exist 1- core
All modules exist
1- core profile module , bio module or node profile module
2- privatemsg, messenger, message box modules
3- Buddylist module
4- Ajaxim module
Galleries you mentioned can be built in various ways according to your needs
rakisisesindekibalik
that's really a good and powerfull Cms .i'll look to the modules you advised me and i'll try .
many thanks to you and to drupal.
P.s.
Drupal 5 or Drupal 6?
looks like drupal 5, so yes, all modules
so for profile creator - that's like node profile module http://drupal.org/project/nodeprofile which turns a 'content type' into a profile, and using cck - http://drupal.org/project/cck - they were able to add all sorts of custom fields to a profile...internal messaging is the messenger module - http://drupal.org/project/messenger - and connections between members is buddylist -http://drupal.org/project/buddylist - and instant messaging is a module like http://drupal.org/node/14553 - and don't forgot for these (all) there are some add-ons to consider (node privacy - to restrict access to profiles, or views to customize display of anything and so on)...
as for music, photo and video there are MANY modules for that - you should browse http://drupal.org/project/Modules and think about what you want (like gallery module from menalto, and lightbox2 for nifty pop-up galleries and so on...other modules will let users upload entire videos and will auto=convert to flash and so on..
once you get into it, you'll find that it's not rocket science - it's about workflow and finding the right module features that you can bend to your will to get the site behavior that you want...
Zilla
Thanks Zilla , i thought that Drupal is only for developer, it has this image of "Only Developers please! "
may be with more study and effort it can be easy for me to use Drupal for my social networking web site.
i might ask you the same question that i askedrakisisesindekibalik:
about wich version of drupal it's better to use Drupal 5 or Drupal 6 at the moment?
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Modules for Drupal 6 have not caught up yet. Based on what you seek, I'd start with Drupal 5 until such time as all modules you build your site with on Drupal 5.x are updated to Drupal 6.
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Drupal 5
so i begin with drupal 5 and after all modules upgrade i'll upgrade to drupal 6. ok thanks.
it's easy to update drupal and relative modules from 5 to 6. sorry for the question i'm migrating from joomla to Drupal that's why my question has a reason. thanks
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contrib.modules get disabled.
site gets set in offline mode
core files get deleted
new core files get uploaded
update.php gets run
then contrib modules are updated in the same fashion.
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If you ask nicely I'll give you a towel : )
wow
it seems very easy ... wow looking forward to begin.
Drupal let us Rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
welcome to Drupal.I am sure
welcome to Drupal.
I am sure you will like it. Even I tried joomla first and than settled with Drupal.
I will also suggest you to install Druapl 5 now as many important modules are not available for Druapl 6.
http://www.techhunt.org
thanks
thanks to you all my friends
i think that you guys are the really power of drupal and not anly the script.
very friendly and helpful. wow i really happy to be here:)