By MommyTalk on

Hello! So David here helped me out by helping to set up drupal. It is now up a going and I love it BUT it is far from the social networking type community I wish to accomplish. My goal is to have it set up something like on this website. http://vegifide.com/forlife/ The owner there is a myspace friend of mine who just got it set up using drupal and recommended I do the same. I don't know if they set it up themselves, had help, or just paid for it to be done, BUT that's how I'd like mine pretty much. Does anyone have any idea of exactly which modules they have? I have had a couple of you recommend some modules but you didn't give specific download names and there are soooo many!! The descriptions don't really tell me exactly what each one does and there is no way to preview and see. I also would be greatful if you could instruct me on how to add new modules since David did it all for me on his end. Thanks in advance!

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MommyTalk’s picture

MommyTalk commented

You'd have to create an account I guess to see the website I linked, basically it's a lot like myspace. You can have add "buddys" and comment them. You have a small profile, nothing fancy, where you can add some information and upload a picture. You can keep a blog for your friends to comment. Vote in polls and comment on articles the admin post.

Information on sign up I'd like to have is

First & Last Name:
Birthdate (which would display their age on their profiles)
Gender
Marital Status (dropdown list)
# of Children (dropdown list 1-10)
# of Angels (dropdown list 1-10)
Location (City, State, Country)
Religion (with drop down list to choose from)
Occupation (with drop down list)
Smoker?
Drinker?

I'd there their profiles to have an "Biography" section, "Hobbies" section, that they could fill in and edit and also a "Background" info section that would show the answers to the questions asked on sign up.

Most of that is what the website I linked you has, but unless you signup you wont be able to see it all

yelvington’s picture

yelvington commented

You should ask your friend which modules are in use.

Obviously: Profile (core), buddylist, guestbook, event, forum (core).

MommyTalk’s picture

MommyTalk commented

I have sent them an email but I doubt they will reply or know. They aren't a friend, friend ... Just a myspace friend.
Here is the link to what David so kindly set up for me so far.

www.mymommytalk.com/community

:)

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MommyTalk commented

Oh and also more than which ones to install, I need to know HOW to install them. Since David did it on his end, and all files and folders would be on his computer... I'm not sure how to add them in from my end. I asked him in email but he is a very busy man. I'm reading to try to learn but it is all very advanced and very new. I'm learning just need a little help and guideance

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DrupalBone commented

which modules they are using.

1. Basically visit each of the main pages that show something fundamentally different while you are logged in.

2. In your web browser, click "view page source".

3. Near the top of the page you'll see all of these "@import" lines which tells you the css file drupal is getting to display what these modules are requesting.

For Example, on that page you linked to, we get this:

    <style type="text/css" media="all">@import "/forlife/modules/aggregator/aggregator.css";</style>

<style type="text/css" media="all">@import "/forlife/modules/cck/content.css";</style>

<style type="text/css" media="all">@import "/forlife/modules/event/event.css";</style>

<style type="text/css" media="all">@import "/forlife/modules/node/node.css";</style>

<style type="text/css" media="all">@import "/forlife/modules/poll/poll.css";</style>

<style type="text/css" media="all">@import "/forlife/modules/system/defaults.css";</style>

<style type="text/css" media="all">@import "/forlife/modules/system/system.css";</style>

<style type="text/css" media="all">@import "/forlife/modules/user/user.css";</style>

<style type="text/css" media="all">@import "/forlife/themes/vegifide/style.css";</style>

So from that list I can easily pick out that they are using the aggregator and poll modules which are optional modules that are already in your drupal install in the modules list which you have to go to to check and click submit to turn on these optional modules one at a time, and the site also has contributed modules which you download from this site... these are cck and event modules. The node, system, and user modules are non-optional drupal modules that are always on and can't be turned off.

I'm sure once you log in, there will be even more that show up in the page source depending on the page you are on. If you find something interesting or unique on the site, then look at the source code and look for that @import list at the top of the page.

I'll let someone else explain exactly how to install these as it's getting far too late here for me to type another word.