Can Drupal features be used to create Dictionary?

Posted by nesta on October 10, 2006 at 7:55am

Hi,
I want to create a Dictionary with following features.
1) Users can create terms and descriptions (can probably use drupal categories feature)
2) Tag clouds (can use drupal tagadelic)
3) Users can rate the words like www.urbandictionary.com

Is drupal suitable for huge database dictionary or should I look for a dictionary script instead?
Thanks. :)

Comments

Yes, It is suitable.

Posted by Gurpartap Singh on October 10, 2006 at 8:27am

Yes, It is suitable.

can you build it? yes you can.

Posted by wmostrey on October 10, 2006 at 8:54am

Hey Nesta,

You can indeed accomplish this with drupal categories, tagadelic and the votes module. Also, you can create an alphabetical listing using the nodelist module. This will create something like this:

http://www.leonardo-energy.org/drupal/partners

If you go drupal 5 you could

Posted by dldege on January 25, 2007 at 3:18pm

If you go drupal 5 you could also consider the new fivestar module for doing the ratings. http://drupal.org/project/fivestar

Tagadelic is a pretty expensive module in terms of render time and db access. If you plan to use it for a tag block you might also want to consider block cache module http://drupal.org/project/blockcache or write a custom tag cloud that is really tailored for your needs.

d_Ld