Need to make a video contest site
User manolism has described here http://drupal.org/node/275649 a site he built with some custom modules. I do not yet have the ability to write my own module. I need to build a site where people can register, embed a YouTube or Google video, and selected one of 9 categories (entered as taxonomies). For this I am using the Video module. Registered users can also vote for one video per taxonomy. For voting I am using the Voting API and have experimented with a couple of the voting modules such as vote_up_down and extra_voting_forms but they don't quite do what I need. I thought I could use userpoints to allocate votes, but it appears this module awards points for voting, it does not use points as votes. Can anyone make a suggestion on how I can do this? Is there another combination of modules I can use?
thanks.
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if you are intent on embedding vide from 3rd party sites I'd use the emfield.module and the CCK.module to create a video content type.
For voting I'd investigate the fivestar.module.
OK, I am trying fivestar.
OK, I am trying fivestar. Since I don't want a five star type rating, I am changing the number of stars to one, the name of one to "vote" and then I can change the graphic to represent a vote. Does that make sense? Will it be tabulated in a vote-tally manner?
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if you only want +1 voting investigate the plus1.module
Ok, this looks good. But, is
Ok, this looks good. But, is there any easy way to limit the number of votes per user?
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I don't have it installed, you should check the settings for votingapi and for the module in question. Also check the issue queues of modules in question for similar requests and possible patches.
I am currently looking to
I am currently looking to hire someone to make this module.