By tehwalrus on

Hi Drupal Developers,

I am entirely lacking in relevant php experience and such prerequisites, so setting out to develop a module for drupal might seem foolhardy. What I want to know at this stage of the "hmm, where do I begin?" phase is "does what I want already exist"?

I can't seem to find it by searching, although this may not mean it isn't there.

What I would like to do is allow site users to post reviews. Reviews of content on the site/nodes is already a thing you can do in a number of ways, but I want to allow people to rate [abstract entitiy], be it a web site or particular URL, a film or music video, a real life organisation or service provider, etc. Critically, there need to be statistics for each /set/ of entities (films, news articles, cowboy hat manufacturers), with ranking and links to the particular reviews for that set.

Ultimately this could be used for many purposes (although I have 2 specific ones in mind...which people will no doubt learn about as I use them for testing if I /do/ attempt to code the thing!)

Advice, coments and answers welcome, I am here to learn :)

No doubt this could be done in a number of ways by combining existing modules and adding little "join the dots" methods, although what I'm trying to flush out here are "or you could just use [module]" style comments :)

Thanks,

tehwalrus

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coreyp_1 commented

the fivestar module would work just fine for ratings, and the rest could be constructed with CCK, Views, and Taxonomy.

-Corey

tehwalrus’s picture

tehwalrus commented

Thanks for these suggestions. The definition of the CCK seems a bit vague to me, so I can't quite see how to slot everything together yet. I will have a go on a test server and report back if I have any success.

Cheers,

tehwalrus