an investment simulation website with Drupal
Hello all,
I am developing an tool to support investment decision-making, and just about to complete a proof of concept written from scratch in php. In essence the core set of functionalities is the definition of project alternatives, generation of their cash-flow charts/tables and perform some analysis.
The next step is to make this tool available on the web, but for this purpose I need to make things a bit prettier (eg via templating) and add some features (the first being user management, so people can at least define/save their own simulation environments and results).
I am considering Drupal for this but I am a bit concerned that I might stretch its philosophy, as basically I am not dealing with content as such, as the information generated is almost always dynamic. I am currently in the crowd of those trying to get the hang of Drupal's basics and my doubt is that using nodes/modules/blocks is not really suitable to handle and present dynamic content.
I really hope somebody could help confirming this is not an issue (possibly with a quick hint on which elements of Drupal I should focus on for this application), because then I would really like to take advantage of some interesting features such as blogs, SEO support and static content (eg articles on the subject).
Thank you very much for any idea or comment.
I think Drupal would work
I think Drupal would work and the output from a node does not have to be what was input but can also include generated content. So one possibility would be to write a module that treats a simulation environments as a node. The form would collect the inputs for the simulation environments and the output would be generated from these inputs. That way each user can add one or more simulation environments and can restrict that capability to registered users if you like.
Ok
Hello Nevets,
thank you very much for your reply.
Ok then, I am setting out to write a module for each of the three main types of items (Project, Scenarios=group of projects, Simulation=run of a scenario), which will define three 'types' of content.
I am still not clear on the exact design but I can see a direction to follow.
thanks again.