Hey all. I have a new project I'm about to start working on and I'm wondering if Drupal is the right way to go. I'm an experienced developer with a very comfortable background in hard-coding PHP. I haven't worked with Drupal yet but have worked with wordpress and other frameworks. Would love your feedback....
I am tasked to build a community where users can create an account, log in and do one or both of the following:
- upload their "files" to share with others in the community (where they would fill in a form of specific information we would need to populate our database of "Files"
- once logged in, users can also browse or search and ultimately choose to download other users posted files
This will need to work within the framework. I believe the client has some sort of CMS set up but we'll probably just borrow the framework for the site and use it in our template for the community.
Do you think Drupal is the right way to go? Can you recommend modules that would help us achieve our goals that I can read up. Any help or feedback is greatly appreciated.
thanks
Fish
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Other than the phrase "This
Other than the phrase "This will need to work within the framework" (which I am unsure what you mean) Drupal will work. Drupal though is a CMS is meant to manage a website so that part could be important.
I would suggest the Content Construction Kit (CCK) to make a content type that holds the information about a file, I would use a file field for the actual upload. You might also want to use taxonomy if some of the information represents categorizing the file information.
There is the standard search and you can use views and exposed filters for a more directed search.
Hey pal. thanks for the
Hey pal. thanks for the reply. Sorry for the typo and confusion. I was merely saying that I need to make this work within the current look and feel of the existing site (to a point). Since they already seem to have a CMS, I dont' want to mess with that. I will probably suggest using a subdomain where the community lives and make it look similar (header footer framework) to the existing site.
I wonder if using Drupal is overkill since I don't need a full CMS here. What i really need is a file sharing community and I thought that Drupal might be a good option with the right modules installed.
I'm gonna dig around and look at CCK and some other modules. Thanks for the heads up on that.
Also may look for other software that my suit my needs. Rather not build this from scratch if I don't have to.
thanks again
Fish
drupal is and isn't for you...
If you want to integrate the current website's look and feel then you'll have to take the current website and theme it ... You'll need to know about drupal templating for that purpose...
drupal is basically for managing communities so take it if you need it for your purpose...
small 'drupal' on my web
Drupal is a lot more than
Drupal is a lot more than just about "managing communities"
true... I know but isn't it
true... I know but isn't it majorly for that purpose... managing a multiuser website with ease...
small 'drupal' on my web