Hi everyone,
As a fourth year student Interaction Design, I'm working on a charity social network site. People can have personal pages that state who their friends are and what charities they support. If you have a personal page you can also start a charity page. On a charity page people can write evaluations, but also a charity page has social links. You can see who supports this charity and what charities this charity support. Read more details at www.makingthesite.com.
content&context chart of the concept:
http://www.makingthesite.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/content_context_...
I'm trying to build a test version in Drupal. I'm new to drupal, and I was hoping I could build most of it using modules. It looks like it should be possible to do this.
The project is for my graduation, so I really like to have a test version up and running midway July. Leaving me with about one month to build the test stie; is that possible you think?
Are there any experts on using Drupal for building a social network site? I'm trying out this buddy-list, and that works, but only for personal pages. For charity pages I'm not sure if I should use a modified Personal Page or a modified Group page. I can do some PHP, but I'm far from an expert, so I'd rather not try to hack the groups module to accept the buddylist module.. Or otherwise hack the normal personal accounts so these (charity) pages can be made by someone who has an account and that it automaticly stated that this person is the owner.
Anyone with tips about these problems?
Thanks in advance,
Julius
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how many
it depends on how many charities will be listed. the problem with Drupal is that with organic groups or taxonomy access control, all possible choices go into one list. So if you have hundreds of groups, it's too cumbersome.
this is a problem in general with Drupal. eg. book pages. Some people have been trying to make alternatives, but I haven't myself seen anything that works on any website.
If anyone has a solution, I would be very interested in it.
Drupal ecommerce, at http://www.drupalecommerce.com
http://www.drupalecommerce.com/troubleshooting
http://www.drupalecommerce.com/modulesexplained
http://www.drupalecommerce.com/47vs46
http://www.drupalecommerce.com/howto
Thanks, that's good
Thanks, that's good feedback. That would become a problem on the long run, because the 'modest' goal is to include every charity in the world. Still, for now I'm only going for a test version to see if the basic principles of the concept work. So I think with a couple of hundred pages that should be possible. But if other people think this is a very serious problem, then please say so. Then perhaps I should build in Joomla?
joomla worse
As far as I know, Drupal is your best bet for a non-programmer. I think Joomla would be less suitable.
A mistake in my first post. I meant the taxonomy module, not taxonomy access control.
here is a note about the taxonomy issue
http://drupal.org/node/61397#comment-125100
Drupal ecommerce, at http://www.drupalecommerce.com
http://www.drupalecommerce.com/troubleshooting
http://www.drupalecommerce.com/modulesexplained
http://www.drupalecommerce.com/47vs46
http://www.drupalecommerce.com/howto