Online Beauty Pageant Site - Is this Drupal?

neroflick - January 6, 2009 - 01:39

I was wondering if this site was built with Drupal ...

http://www.missinternetpageant2008.com

A client wants similar implementation and this is almost impossible in Joomla so i'm looking at learning drupal cos i feel its way more flexible and advanced than Joomla. I need to know what modules can be harnessed to put up a site like that (and possibly how to combine them to achieve it, hope am not asking for too much!). What actually drove me from using Joomla is the different user roles (Voters/Contestants) which can be selected at sign up with each having its own separate registration form. I know this would be possible in drupal as i hear drupal has better user access/role handling.

So guys ... help a brotha in need!

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Does not appear to be a

gforce301 - January 6, 2009 - 02:21

Does not appear to be a Drupal site but Drupal could handle a site like that.

Not a Drupal site but could

nevets - January 6, 2009 - 02:23

Not a Drupal site but could be done with Drupal

Okay guys ... so how can it be done?

neroflick - January 6, 2009 - 06:40

Pls i'd like to hear from the experienced drupalers ... what building blocks would be needed to put up a similar site in drupal. Pls try to be detailed as possible as am just a newbie here but i learn pretty fast.

Thanks y'all

votingapi + a voting

mradcliffe - January 6, 2009 - 15:56

votingapi + a voting mechanism, might also need CCK for this and probably recommended
views (that's how you can make the front page block)
pathauto
image or some image gallery module, imce too probably

amongst others

check out http://drupal.org/project/Modules

I would try to think of the site in drupal terms:

1. what will be a node? what sort of node content is there (image? votes? users?)

There's no one way of doing things. Read from http://drupal.org/node/19828 onward.

Thanks so far guys but i'm still not clear

neroflick - January 7, 2009 - 17:48

Now am delving straight into drupal to develop something like this (http://www.missinternetpageant2008.com). Can a "nice" pro in the house take a good look at the site and possible create an account there to have a feel of the functionality and then advise on the best modules to do the job?

Urgent things i need to know how to do are:

1. Setup a registration system where visitor chooses to register as either a contestant or a voter.
2. Different fields in registration form depending on registration type chosen
3. Voters are automatically activated whereas Contestants must be activated by some admin.
4. Sst up voting link on each contest page dynamically which would be used by Voters

This brings me to the question, what is the best voting module to use that's similar in functionality to that used in the site?

I'm starting out with the acquia drupal package as it seems to contain most of the modules i think i'll be needing .... so guys help a brother out once more. And one last thing, which is the best (or highly recommended) wysiwyg editor for drupal out there?

Thanks again ...

Still expecting your

neroflick - January 10, 2009 - 12:47

Still expecting your opinions & suggestions ...

and possible create an

WorldFallz - January 10, 2009 - 13:52

and possible create an account there to have a feel of the functionality

Just an FYI-- but this is not very likely. It has nothing to do with being 'nice'-- I would define someone taking the time to answer your question as being 'nice'.

1. Setup a registration system where visitor chooses to register as either a contestant or a voter.

http://drupal.org/project/autoassignrole

2. Different fields in registration form depending on registration type chosen

http://drupal.org/project/content_profile and perhaps http://drupal.org/project/rules as well.

3. Voters are automatically activated whereas Contestants must be activated by some admin.

Probably the easiest way is to configure all accounts to require moderation, then use the http://drupal.org/project/rules module to activate new users registered with the 'voter' role automatically.

4. Sst up voting link on each contest page dynamically which would be used by Voters

http://drupal.org/project/nodevote

As for wysiwyg editors, my current recommendation is http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor.

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