Hi there,
I've been trying to get a community site going for a while now based on a non-profit organisation but the features I need are quite specific and seem to be difficult to implement myself. What I'm looking for is some place where I can at least build on someone elses work and not have to start from scratch.
I've been using Joomla so far which can almost do all the things I need but not quite, and the community there isn't great (or I've just missed it). I've tried Drupal before and my one issue with it is the way there's no backend - in this respect (and with templates) I feel like Joomla is light years ahead... I know I know - it's better to have the 'backend' integrated into one system, I just struggle to work with it.
Anyway, onto the questions - can Drupal do these things:
- Can I have different types of users? So say, one for individuals, one for companies etc.
- Can I have different types of profile pages? Say three different types to go with each type of user (they would specify which type they were on registration and the registration fields they had to fill in would change to suit this).
- One particular user type needs to be able to award another group points. Can I do this? - this is the one thing I struggled to integrate with Joomla.
- Users need to be able to leave a feedback rating / comments which will appear on the relevant profile.
Thanks a lot in advance - I really like the idea of Drupal, it's just so intimidating and I don't have years to spend getting to grips with it!
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1) yes-- you can have any number of different user 'roles'.
2) also yes. For very simple/basic profiles you can do this with the core profile and contributed http://drupal.org/project/profile_role modules. For more elaborate profiles you would use the http://drupal.org/project/content_profile and optionally http://drupal.org/project/autoassignrole modules.
3) and again yes. See the http://drupal.org/project/userpoints and http://drupal.org/project/userpoints_contrib (specifically the user2userpoints submodule) modules.
4) yes yet again-- using the content_profile module for profiles enables the full power of drupal nodes (including commenting) for user profiles.
In summary, you should be able to do all of this-- probably without writing a single line of code. Just be aware though, drupal does have a bit of a learning curve so you may struggle a bit at first, as opposed to joomla which is easy at first but difficult to modify for desired functionality. Just stick with it and you be very glad you did.
Welcome aboard!
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Thanks very much, that was a
Thanks very much, that was a rapid reply - I did search about but it's so much easier to have someone familiar with the stuff point you in the right starting direction. I'll head off and check all those links out. Thanks again!
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