By agc1976 on

My sister offers swimming clinics. She wants to have a site where her students can log in and view the underwater videos recorded of them along with the annotations, comments, suggestions and content specific to each of the members.

I need to know if Drupal is the right tool for creating such a site and what modules should I be looking at to be able to implement this. If Drupal is not the right tool then please suggest one.

I will be doing this for her for free. I'm new to CMS and have no knowledge of web programming but I'm willing to learn in the process.

Edited by: VM; Moved to appropriate forum

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vm commented

yep can be done.

cck.module to build out the content type
you'll requie a videofield to add to the content type, however, the module to use depends on how you want to handle video.

for example: direct upload to a youtube account = video_upload.module, embedding 3rd party video = emfield.module

comments are a core feature of drupal.

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agc1976 commented

Thanks! I've been watching some video tutorials. Awesome stuff.

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sharpyand commented

have you started with your project yet? I am also thinking of developing a site which is almost the same as yours but I don't know if I should choose Drupal, Mambo or Joomla. I also want to mysitevideo.com allow visitors to upload video are there extensions that will allow me to do this?

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WorldFallz commented

mambo is nothing but a deadend version of joomla. Joomla is probably easier to setup out of the box but very inflexible and difficult to customize. Drupal can do this no problem-- there's several modules available for video, which you select will depend on the details of your implementation.

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agc1976 commented

I still haven't started the project. Will start probably around february.

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WebNewCastle commented

There is rarely a reason to use Joomla over Drupal, in my opinion - after having worked with both.

In addition to video, it sounds like you'll want to check out some options/modules for content access control as well, assuming that Student A isn't supposed to be able to see the videos for Student B.

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agc1976 commented

Your assumption is right. Student A is not supposed to be able to access Student B's content. Do you have any suggestions on which modules I should look at?

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ashish.cms commented

Hi,

you can use two modules for content access permission.They are :
1. Node Access : http://drupal.org/project/nodeaccess

2. Content Access : http://drupal.org/project/content_access