By sportsguy on
Hi all,I am laughably new to Drupal and seek some enlightenment about the possibilities one has with Drupal.You see I have this idea of a paid membership site for realtors where they can enlist offers and have discussions with one another,basically I would want the site to be a marketing tool and a communication tool for realtors and property dealers,is there a collection of modules that could work together to pull this off?.I have heard that ubercart has the ability to manage subscriptions but I have not heard of a cataloging module that can integrate with it to formulate a paid listings system,integration with some SN modules also would be essential but not important,thank you!
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Yes, this can be done with drupal. In addition to ubercart, you'll want to checkout the cck, views, privatemsg, and advanced_forum modules to start. For an idea of what social networking modules are available see http://shellsn.com. Ubercart has a catalog built in, but you may also want to look at the uc_node_checkout module as well.
Thanks Dude!
Thanks dude!,but has this been done before?,I mean is there a specific collection of modules that have been tested and given the nod by other Drupal users,if anyone would have some idea which modules would match each other perfectly and thus integrate into a flawless system,a kicktushi realtors' club,boy that would be awesome!,thanks again WF!.
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That would be dudette, WRT to WorldFallz ; )
With reference to modules to use. That depends on the features of a site one wants. Some may want private messaging system some may not. This same idea holds true to every module in drupal.
That said, the best advice is to create a development/test site and begin working with and investigating the features of the modules you want to test.
Check the social networking group over at groups.drupal.org
Sorry WF!
Ah! so you're a girl,my apologies,I hope you'll just laugh about it and not think bad of me,and thanks VM for the heads up,and about experimenting with modules,man!,I don't know,I'm getting cold feet about that I mean what if it generates a messy result and I get depressed and wish I would have asked the gurus first and then made a well advised decision,I think I should do some research first.Well maybe the king of all questions here is "what are Drupal modules?",are they a few hundred lines of php code intended to update and extend drupal or are they tiny scripts that just do their own thing independently of each other?.This would give me a good clue of whether I have a number of little scripts performing independent duties or one great CMS?.I am trying to understand the level of integration here,whether having another module simply means having another piece of web software that minds it's own business or having a more functional CMS,in which case you could apply any desired function to any part of the website.Hopefully it will all workout and I will finally have a members only realty listings site where the general public only get to see the listings but members get to advertise their offers.Thanks guys(and girls!)for taking the time to read my posts and for your input,I dearly appreciate it,I've seen some helpless forums,you wouldn't believe the number of forums I've consulted and recieved no help,I was starting to become used to it.
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Modules extend what can be done with drupal core. Modules are mostly task driven, some are addon's to other modules, and other still are building blocks for other modules to work off of or with. Level of integration with other modules will vary depending on the module. The Getting Started Guide in the documentation area may be worth a read through.
Testing modules on a test site and learning the level of integration through first hand experience is a great resource for data in your research.
Hey VM,so you're saying
Hey VM,so you're saying integration is not guaranteed but possible?,I suppose my best option is try out each module that promises to work and see if it does,thank you!
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depends on what combination of modules you are talking about and what level of integration is built in for those modules with the "other" modules.
There are over 3000 modules for Drupal 6.x, I guarantee no developer has tested their module against every possible combination of modules running on any one site. This is where users come into play and who find these issues and can direct developers to conflicts so that they can be sorted out.
Cool!
Cool man!,but what is "hook",I came across this term while I was reading about how Drupal modules are written,according to the author of the article this is the main thing one has to be looking at for adding functions to Drupal in general,how deep the module's hook is,that is.Thanks for your reply.
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hooks are mechanisms to "hook into" a part of core or a module and override it in part or in total. These are explained in more detail in the module developers guide on drupal.org and can be further reasearch on http://api.drupal.org
Oh!,now I see
Things are starting to clear up,it's all up to the developer,Drupal normally allows "hook"ing at any level,examples have been made with modules like CKK and Views,they're said to be able to do anything in a Drupal site,their reach is almost unlimited,I don't suppose they could dictate the fuctions of other modules,could they?
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cck creates content types
views lists data from the database
modules would influcence them rather than the reverse.
I like Dudette! Cool!
I like Dudette! Cool!