By barmanpoet on

I'm new to the admin side of drupal; used it from the user side for a while, but never built my own. Now that I've decided to take the plunge, I figure it best to build one for me to tinker with first. I would like my tinker-toy site to be for home use, but am having difficulty locating the modules to fulfill my needs. Here are some of the functions I have thoughts on:

- To-do list
- Grocery list
- Ability to display feeds from Axis network cameras
- Ability to call up external graphic feeds like from Cacti or Network Weathermap
- Recipe manager (yes, as in cooking)
- Alternate, lightweight interface for mobile devices (iPhone)

I know these sound like silly requests, but I'll use them and it'll help me learn the toolset. I have a few ideas for more uses of drupal, but would like to be much more comfortable with it first.

All feedback and assistance is appreciated.

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barmanpoet commented

OK, so I installed 5.7 and am getting that setup. It'd still be nice to have some feedback from the community...I assume someone has some thoughts that would be helpful...

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marcusthijm commented

It all depends on how you would like to implement the aforementioned (is that a word) items. One way to go for the to-do list is CCK and Views. You install the CCK-module, with which you create a new contenttype: to do. You can put as many fields as you like on there. With the Views-module you can create a page with all the to do list-items.

Same goes for the grocery list and recipe manager.

Isn't the lightweight interface something you would do in your theme. By providing an alternative style sheet?

About the other two items I have no clue at the moment, but when I think of something I'll let you know.

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ica commented

there is a very good tutorial by victor kane of awebfactory, usage case, node types etc. is entirely different or its not exactly case for your specific requirements above but may give you idea how you can facilitate the CCK and views to build all of -as far as i can see- on your list. for mobile devices you will need tinker the theme

http://awebfactory.com.ar/node/302

also -you might already know- check out nice modulefinder function of
http://drupalmodules.com/module-finder