New site development!!

aac - June 2, 2009 - 06:41

Hello Friends
I would be interested to make a site like "mixx.com" using Drupal6. Is it possible to do that using Drupal6? which modules would be required to achieve that?
Thanks for your suggestions!!!

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Unfortunately I don't have

omnitrick - June 3, 2009 - 02:41

Unfortunately I don't have time to look through the entire site, however, the following modules should get you started:

Carnevale Design: Creativity on Fire
http://carnevaledesign.com

I think Drigg is outdate for

manop - June 3, 2009 - 03:11

I think Drigg is outdate for now. Besides modules mentioned above, you might wanna check:

* Plus1: http://drupal.org/project/plus1
* VotingAPI : http://drupal.org/project/votingapi

Thanks to both of you for your response!!

aac - June 3, 2009 - 07:01

Thanks to both of you for your response!!
I will check the modules you have recommended for me. I also found a link for http://drupal.org/project/vote_up_down
Will it be useful too??

Thanks for your any comment!!

I have created my content

aac - July 13, 2009 - 19:04

I have created my content type using CCK and its various modules in Drupal 6. But now i am not able to achieve the main part, which is "promoting the story to the front page based on number of votes". In drupal5, there was a module called http://drupal.org/project/voting_actions for achieving this functionality. But it is not available in Drupal6. Also Drupal6 has more advanced actions and trigger modules and http://drupal.org/project/rules module is also very helpful in creating various events. I have searched Drupal.org as well as googled the web but i have not found a single reference for "creating trigger and actions based on votes for promoting posts to front page". Though there are references for creating other non-vote based triggers and actions. I hope people are using this functionality in Drupal 6 too. Any help in this regard will be much helpful.
Actually when i started i was knowing that it can be done easily in pligg but pligg is not that much powerful so i decided to use drupal as i was already learning drupal for 6-8 months. But now i am again thinking to look back into pligg as i am feeling helpless at this point.
Thanks for any help!!

Overcomplicated??

mcfilms - July 13, 2009 - 19:49

I haven't used the Voting API, so I don't know if my reply will help. But it seems to me your approach is overcomplicated. Instead of looking at another module or trying to get a trigger and action to fire, why don't you just stick with views?

Couldn't you just create a view that displays the information you want and sort that view by the number of votes. Then you could create a node or a page or a block and display the top 10 or 3 or #1 vote-getters. That block could be included on the home page or you could make that Views page the home page.

I hope this helps. Like I said, I'm not that familiar with voting, but this is the direction I would take if I faced this problem.