By tommeir on

Hello everyone,

I want to build a community website that is updated by online users. so far from what Ive heard drupal seems to be the best solution for my needs.

The web site could be described as an article database, each "article" contains within itself several "activities", both are categorized with its own tag's for search, examples could be "topic" "activity kind" "group age" and so on...
users who access the site should be able to search by picking tags relevant to what they need and view the content.
registered users should also be able to upload new articles and new activities and tag them. give them new tags which did not exist before, even a new category of tags if those present are not enough. they should also be able to build a new article by adding several activities together and link them.
the entire database should be flexible enough to include new tags and new tag types and to show the users the relationships between them and between the articles or activities they include.

my question is, was i right to start working with drupal for this task? if so, what should i look for to find out who it's done? (modules, settings, blocks, etc...)

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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WorldFallz commented

Drupal can do this type of site, no problem. Be aware, however, there is a learning curve associated with drupal-- and there's really no shortcuts to avoid going through the documentation. Besides clicking on the 'documentation' link above, some other good places to start are:

http://drupal.org/cases
http://socnet.shellmultimedia.com

Welcome aboard and good luck!

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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Lao Tzu
"God helps those who help themselves." - Ben Franklin
"Search is your best friend." - Worldfallz

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tommeir commented

thanks for the reply. though maybe I can get some directions on what document to look for, i guess regarding taxonomies or categories using drupal

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WorldFallz commented

I can certainly point you to http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/taxonomy-- but it's not likely to mean much to you until you've gone through the getting started docs. That was kind of the point of saying there are no shortcuts.

I probably should have also included a link to http://drupal.org/handbook/customization/videocasts.

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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Lao Tzu
"God helps those who help themselves." - Ben Franklin
"Search is your best friend." - Worldfallz

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tommeir commented

again, thank you for the support!