Hello everyone, My name is Jonathan, and I would like to develop a Virtual Pet website. I feel myself as very experienced in HTML and CSS, but not very fond of PHP. The other day my friend pointed me to Drupal, to make the user registration and login database. Now, I already have my website made with a design and logo, but before I want to theme it into Drupal, (Something which I think is very complicated so far) I want to figure some things out.
I would like to have forums in my site. (Drupal can already do this for me)
I would like to have a pet system. (Something where it can keep track of the certain pet someone adopts when they register)
I would like to have a point system. (A system where people can earn points by browsing the site, and playing games)
Thats all for now, thannks!
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CCK & User Points
I'm not sure what a "pet system" entails exactly, but you might check out the Content Construction Kit (CCK) module which allows you to create custom content types. Maybe a "pet" content type could meet that need.
For the "point system," take a look at User Points module.
Neither of these modules have final releases yet for Drupal 6, but they appear to be in the works.
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It seems like you are going to need a lot of funky modules for this one. The main important modules have been upgraded for Drupal 6, but there are still a ton of modules that are only available for Drupal 5. I still make all my sites with Drupal 5 because there are always a few modules I need that aren't available yet for Drupal 6.
Bottom line: I think you should consider making your site with Drupal 5. Just my personal opinion.
And by the way, I don't believe you will be able to find all the functionality you are looking for with just contributed modules. You will be able to do a lot, but some stuff might require you to code your own modules (or pay someone to do it for you since you aren't fond of PHP).