By Envy on

I am trying to find the best (open source or cheap) cms for making a game database.

The games would be stored in a database together with a review. Beside the review which is a text a game should have different properties attached to it such as genre, possibly subgenre and how many players it supports and what grade it got in the review.

I noticed that Drupal has taxonomy which to some extent can be used for category and number of players, but it would be difficult for a user to search for for example games that supports 2-4 players.

It should be easy for users to browse the database and find exactly the game he/she is looking for.

Also it is a plus but not a requirement if the cms supports translation of reviews to different languages. I noticed this neat feature in Typo3.

I am not experienced with Drupal so that is why I ask you guys, is Drupal suitable for this kind of database site where content is supposed to be easily listable based on different properties?

A use case would be: List all reviews of games with 2-4 players that are turn based strategy games. This would require the items listed to have three properties:

1. 2-4 players.
2. Turn based.
3. Strategy game.

I would like the user to just fill in some drop down lists or something and then be shown the contents that corresponds to his selections.

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WorldFallz commented

Yep drupal can do this no problem. You can setup very detailed custom searches with the http://drupal.org/project/views module using "exposed filters" (a feature of the module, see the advanced help for more info). For translations, there is basic support built in to core in the form of the content translation and locale modules but you'll also want to look at the http://drupal.org/project/i18n module as well as the other modules in the multilingual section of the downloads area. You can also add ratings with the http://drupal.org/project/fivestar module.

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Envy commented

But does it allow a user to make custom searches as well or does it only allow me to setup custom views?

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

You can setup very detailed custom searches with the http://drupal.org/project/views module using "exposed filters" (a feature of the module, see the advanced help for more info).

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Envy commented

Thank you.