Drupal VS DNN

Sincraft - June 9, 2009 - 12:14

Ok so I'm wondering which is better.

Loaded question, I know. :)

What I need to do is have the follow. Seems pretty simple to me but it appears everything in DNN is either pay, doesn't exist or isn't what I need.

So I'm hoping someone with experience in both or at least in Drupal, could tell me if this is viable with either.

I need to be able to put up a site that allows people to
1. create a topic that is a comparison of two or more items (a vote if you will)
2. people would vote on the options. Either after logging in or anonymous (would like the option for both)
3. The rolling tally would be displayed in a graphical format at the top of the page.
4. subsequent discussion could be presented below the voting tally. One that could be moderated or left open (again, option for both would be great)
5. each topic created would create it own url. One that would be search engine friendly.

IE: Mysite.com/forks-spoons-or-use-your-hands

We need this for an internal group of folks (1000+) to discuss daily work activities and options for several projects.

The nicer the look, the more brownie points I would score. :) But it doesn't have to be too flashy - it would need to get the job done and look clean too.

Everything I have been reading about DNN seems to show it as a more rigid system with way less support and more cost involved.

I would love to do this in DNN as I'm trying to branch into the MS world of programming (starting with C#) but unfortunately it looks like I have to do this project on another platform with more variety.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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I think everything you want

aitala - June 9, 2009 - 13:17

I think everything you want can be done with the Poll module with comments turned on.

You would probably also want a captcha module or the Mollom module to prevent spam comments.

The pathauto module would create SEO friendly URLs, instead of www.example.com/node/234 URLs.

Eric

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I should have added (if I

Sincraft - June 9, 2009 - 13:24

I should have added (if I didn't already) that it is VERY important that I have each poll create an individual webpage as they are created. No polling page.

I would like a summary of polls to display on our intranet page index.html (etc) type of page and then users could choose polls to vote on and discuss that would lead them to an individual page.

Each poll will have a

aitala - June 9, 2009 - 14:08

Each poll will have a separate page/URL - see http://www.f1m.com/d6/

As for a summary... I think the Views module could do that, but I am not sure.

Eric

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I guess I'm sort of looking

Sincraft - June 10, 2009 - 01:53

I guess I'm sort of looking for something that looks like answers.com but with the ability to do voting instead. With the ability to search. Nice summary page but more than I even need, I don't need news around the world but could fill that front area with 'top contributors' - 'newest members' -'overall statistics on contributions' - 'New open topics ' - 'recently closed topics!'

For a company intranet within a specific field that will eventually go public to foster a community of open comparison discussion about this field.

IE:
subpanel or upgrade the houses service

35% 65%

Total people chiming in: 342

Discuss!
User 1: I think increasing the houses service will bring them up to speed better than just adding a subpanel. A subpanel is good for additions but if a customer needs more amps then this is the only way to go.

User 2: While I agree with user 1, I do believe there are at time too many issues that negate the ability to upgrade the houses service entirely whereas a subpanel would serve better for their needs and be less costly.

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User 26: comment comment...yadayada...

-This topic has been closed , want it opened for discussion? "Tag" Yes to reopen or email the subtopic admin and tell them why. (Takes 10 unique tags to reopen)

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The above would be automated and all user run. I would designate areas of specialty for different groups.

BTW this site is not related to the electrical industry, just using as an example (and probably a poor one at that).

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WorldFallz - June 10, 2009 - 15:21

So what's the question? Whether to use drupal or dnn? If so-- drupal all the way. Of course you're asking drupal.org, I'm sure if you ask dnn folks they say dnn, lol.

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The question is, is it

Sincraft - June 10, 2009 - 17:43

The question is, is it possible to do what I outlined above?

Surely someone knows?

I don't have much faith for DNN for many reasons.
1. the forums you post in misread the amount of responses and misreport the pages. It's their main forum page.
2. everything about posting in their forums in counter-intuitive.
3. No one can give me an answer without giving me a website link to a page (probably theirs) selling modules. I have yet to receive a definitive answer.

But yes sir, you are correct - I was told DNN would be a good option...but haven't been told why before I invest my time.
Same goes for this CMS too though. :(

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WorldFallz - June 10, 2009 - 18:32

OK then-- here's some "why" for you--

no checkbook required. i've not used dnn, but I started with joomla and it seemed that as soon as I got a taste of a particular functionality, there was something that needed to be purchased to get the whole thing functioning properly. FWIW, the drupal economy is built around services, not code. drupal honors both the letter and the spirit of the gpl. See http://drupal.org/licensing/faq for more info.
I find the drupal.org forums to be immensely helpful. Of course, being one the regulars i'm probably biased, lol. You will occasionally see people complain (usually those that are completely unwilling to even attempt to help themselves and expect to be spoon fed solutions). However, of much more importance are the issue queues-- every module on drupal.org is hosted on the drupal.org cvs repository and has an issue queue-- including drupal itself. No guessing as to where to go for the best possible chance as some assistance. Of course with open source, there's no guarantee you'll get a response, but at least you don't have to post to 4594345 sites to hope for an answer.
some specifics about your items:
1. This can be approached several ways, but see the http://drupal.org/project/smackdown and http://drupal.org/project/versus (might be abandoned) modules. Otherwise a clever layout and one of the http://drupal.org/project/votingapi supported modules will do the trick.
2. core drupal can handle anonymous or registered user access
3. built-in to the voting module. You may also wish to consider the core poll and http://drupal.org/project/advpoll modules.
4. use comments under the nodes (core)
5. core allows manually entered friendly urls (path module), but many sites use the automated http://drupal.org/project/pathauto module.

Cost in dollars = $0.00

How's that? More along the line of what you were looking for?