Tutorial website
Hey I'm running a dutch tutorial site. Right now It's running on e107 and does a pretty good job, but I was thinking about changing to a different cms.
So I was wondering If Drupel can be used to create a community based website for tutorials.
Well as it is meant for tutorials I'm going to refer to tutorials instead of reviews in this post. here are some requirements.
Requirements:
* Registered users can add tutorials, but have to be reviewed by an administrator first.
* An included WYSIWYG editor so that a nice article can be wrote.
* Registered users can comment on tutorials and rate them.
* Able to display latest, random, top rated tutorials on a page or menu.
* Able to upload files / images to include in a tutorial.
* Able to add images for the tutorials by some sort of gallary.
* Able to view category pages and able to sort them by: alphabet, author name, rating, views and date.
* Search function, to search for specific tutorials
My site now would be a good example:
http://dennis.creativemapping.nl/e107_plugins/content/content.php?cat.62
Hope to get a decent and honest awnser.
Cheers
boedy
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Yes, this type of site can be handled by drupal no problem.
Some modules you'll want to look into:
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yes, drupal can do all of the above however, not out of the box you will need some contrib modules.
1) modr8.module
2) there are a few editors available in contrib
3) yes comments are part of core, rating will require the votingapi.module and I'd use the fivestar.module
4) use the views.module to create lists to be shown in blocks with latest, random, top rated
5) you can use the image.module (which has an image_gallery.module) or build one with CCk.module, filefield.module, imagefield.module, imagecache.module and views.module
6) yes, you can use views to create data in sortable tables or list in any way you want
7) I'd use exposed filters for this type of search from the views.module
Well you guys sure answer
Well you guys sure answer quickly! Top notch!
So basically with the modules stated in your replies I could recreate the example I gave? If that were so I would love it.
I've got another question though. I'm running a different site as well and it uses joomla. It would be great if I could kind of bridge these two together. Is this possible? If so I could use a shared forum.
greetings
boedy
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There is no way to bridge Joomla and Drupal, actually there is no way to bridge 2 CMS's together at all. Don't see why one would need that ... ever.
Drupal has it's own bridges for forums, though most prefer to use the core forum.module for complete integration.
Ok, but for an awnser about
Ok, but for an awnser about my first question. Can I recreate the example I posted? Or even improve it for usability?
Thanks in advance.
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you've already been told yes and given a list of modules to help build the features you seek. However, whether or not you can do what you ask is dependent on your skillset and the amount of time you invest in learning drupal.
And the "Using Drupal" book
And the "Using Drupal" book by O'Reilly (http://www.usingdrupal.com/) has some case studies which explain how to wire them all together to achieve stuff like that.