Multimedia review site with specific needs

Posted by Gummo on October 5, 2006 at 8:13pm

I was wondering whether Drupal is actually a good choice to move to for my former music review site, which I'm planning to expand with movie and other multimedia reviews and articles aswell. Each review would need its own page (possibly commentable) with the actual content, an UPLOADED AND DISPLAYED image/coverart (not just link to one or an IMG tag directing to an image elsewhere on the internet) and a rating system (with possibly the abolity to allow visitors to rate in a different section too.)

Would Drupal be fit for this and what would I need? The modules around this site don't seem particularly fit and I tried downloading and editing the Movie Review module just to see how it worked but it just displays art hosted elsewhere and doesn't save it locally, and I couldn't really seem to find any info on how to do that.

Thanks in advance.

Comments

Gummo, If you attach an

Posted by Emiliano on October 5, 2006 at 8:40pm

Gummo,

If you attach an image (using upload.module), you'll be able to display it. ;-)

You should just paste its URL in the cover field.

Cheers,
Emiliano.
http://www.novayork.com

http://www.emilianoledo.com.br

Drupal could do it,

Posted by patrickharris on October 5, 2006 at 8:47pm

but you would need to do some coding. The commenting and reviewing should be relatively easy, and you would probably use CCK for your content. To get things exactly how you wanted you would need to know some php though, and of course some css.

Project Opus uses Drupal.

Hmmm. Yeah, Drupal gets you

Posted by WillieBHines on October 5, 2006 at 9:10pm

Hmmm. Yeah, Drupal gets you partway there pretty fast.
CCK module would let you define a review node.
img_assist, or even the imagefield with CCK should be good for uploading cover art
Comments would be built in.
It wouldn't be hard to have one review per page either.

Reviewing gets tricky. There's a handful of review modules that all use Voting API which are... okay. I've never tried to hack into them. If they're not gonna work you out of the box, it could be tough.

I keep linking Lullabot articles. It's embarassing, but there's good stuff there. They review the different review modules --
http://www.lullabot.com/articles/a_review_of_node_review_modules

Or maybe you've already been down all these roads?

Thanks for the suggestions,

Posted by Gummo on October 5, 2006 at 10:38pm

Thanks for the suggestions, they seem quite interesting, I'll try looking into those and letting you know. :)