Any webmasters out there that use Drigg? I need your opinion.
Chrys - September 18, 2009 - 08:23
I am building a new website based on the Drigg module which seems to be dead now. I would like to ask any webmasters, that have websites build on Drigg, if they are worried about this issue.
Should I quit my website since I won't get any support from Drigg developers or do you believe Drigg module is powerful enough to supoprt a full functional website?
I would like to listen to some of your experience you had with Drigg module so far.
did not like it
i used drigg for a while some month ago. i threw it out and do the same now with normal drupal modules (voting,etc). but i have to say i never really needed the submission process as i'm aggregating my items from an api. now i feel i have much more control. i did not like the way the urls have been generated, cause once you kick out drigg, you loose the urls of all your items.
i did not like it, but my way to use it is not really supposed what the module was made for.
more details
Interesting thoughts there bara.munchies. Can you give us some more details please:
- what website are you talking about?
- How did you overcome the problem with the submission process?
- What exactly was the problem with the urls?
- What modules did you use?
www.lavrakia.com
- what website are you
- what website are you talking about?
my own project.
- How did you overcome the problem with the submission process?
As i said, i did not use user submission, first i aggregated from a feed an later from an api. now i got my own cronjob api script that generates nodes. pretty easy to do. you could possibly tweak the node submission form, from what i think drigg just uses curl to get the infos from the submitted website. you would either use javascript or use a two step submission form where as the second step pulls the infos from the submitted page. you can use curl with some regex for that or simply php get_meta_tags for title and descitpion
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.get-meta-tags.php
- What exactly was the problem with the urls?
When i used drigg it did not use the drupal own alias system, but a custom thing. that works fine as long as you keep using drigg. when you use another solution there will be no aliases in your database and all your urls will be gone or back to node/1234
- What modules did you use?
right now i stripped the website down pretty much. i found out that visior do not "drigg" a lot anyways. for basic functionality you can use a lot of voting-api, views, actions to promote to frontpage and similar node block. i know drigg does a lot more. it all depends what your website should be like.