How to run content contests?
bjraines - November 24, 2006 - 19:22
Am I curious if anyone has been able to run contests using the voting API?
Like best story of the month or best blog in a certain term .
I have been thinking about it and not sure how to implement it.
I like the idea. I don't
I like the idea. I don't think there is anything in the way of a module that does this. Best I can figure to do it at moment would be to have a winner circle taxonomy, and move the posts at the end of every month when the contest ends.
I may pencil out some ideas on this and see if i can't find some way to implement an awards system. I know there is userpoints and its a great module for awarding active users.
I'd like to see a contest w/awards module/s. awards can be as simple as adding a small banner graphic to the users profile. While my php skills are widening, I don't know how capable I'd be of getting something like this together in a hurry. I'd be willing to work with a few other non guru's who want to gain a deeper knowledge of php / drupal. I venture a guess that if we worked hard enough at it, questions we'd need answered by gurus could be done IRC. I'm sure they'd help guide us with "are we on right track" questions.
phpbb has a few user contributed features of this nature. how hard would it be to port something of this nature ?
:off to see:
I'm interested in this as
I'm interested in this as well, tie me in misunderstood, keen to help out.
Cool. My php skills are
Cool. My php skills are getting better although I haven't practiced on Drupal. I can do most things but havent quite figured out how to work within and API yet. Whever I think I have it down in Joomla something doesn't work out. Oh well. I ll keep practcing.
Maybe we can agree on some ideas here. I think the major idea is to have two types of voting. your regular overall voting and then voting on conditions like published in a certain month or type
it would also be cool if the stories written by the author could show up in a profile tab.
then everything else could be figured out with Views.
Did anything come of your
Did anything come of your investigations Misunderstood?
Do you have the time to colab on something like this? I am pretty busy but I would make time for it as I know a lot of people would like a voting contest module.
I have a lot of ideas for this but time is so short - anyone else interested in helping out?
I haven't as of yet no. I
I haven't as of yet no. I did view the phpbb mod that provides a feature that allows an awards system. It will take me some time to work through the funtionality of this and find comparable functions in drupal to try and duplicate.
It would be beneficial to have a few interested parties (those who have "any level" of experience with coding) involved in this project.
yes I have some coding
yes I have some coding skills and well enough to understand what I am looking at etc.
can you point me at the relevant phpbb files and I can start looking at that also.
http://sourceforge.net/projec
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=100259
look in the list for Medal Mod. it was originally written to offer medals. which are just grahics that can be handed out both by the community and my what the mod considering "medal moderators".
the dev left it open enough that medals can basically mean anything, so long as its a graphic file.
In the use case I'd like to see implemented it can be called awards.
basically:
awards can be handed out daily, weekly, monthly, yearly so on so forth. To get a better handle on how the medal mod works, I'd suggest using it on a phpbb site first. I've had prior experience with it and understand how it works.
obviously interested
I am very interested in helping out. My coding skills are getting better daily and I am actually working on a user points system tied in with awards for Joomla.
I heard that was easier to learn and to start their before Drupal.
I have a list of ideas and would love to collaborate in some way.
Right now I am trying to set up each Month has a term and then use a views of that term to look at the votes. It works but not perfect.
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Well that sounds very
Well that sounds very interesting and a great start, would you mind sharing that so we can take a peek?
jAwards can be found here
jAwards can be found here http://www.joomlapolis.com/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid...
without rewriting the entire community builder for joomla I don't see how this one would work. Its tied into CB pretty tightly.
Maybe there is a wordpress module out there that can be studied as well.
The more I investigate this the more I think writing it from scratch is the way to go.
any word on
any word on this?
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any new development?
just wanted to see how things were going.
not from me, this whole idea
not from me, this whole idea is on the back burner until after 5.0 is released.
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Contest module
New project started here:
http://drupal.org/project/contest
the main concept is now:
// CONTESTS BASED ON VOTING MODULE
//Node
- every contest will be a node
- it will be as a new node type
- when opened there will be possibility to see overal status
- when closed it will show winners
//Page
- provide pages with archive of winners
- link to node, link to user profile, etc... which contest it is
//Blocks
- open contests
- will output all open contests with link to details
- last contest winners
- will output winners of last closed contest
- progress of the current contest
- will output how things are going in opened contest
//When creating new node type CONTEST
- contest title
- contest description
- how often
- daily/weekly/monthly
- or durration from date to date
- or manualy
- email notify checkbox
- notify admin
- summary of winners with profile fields (uid, name, email,...)
- notify winners checkbox
- email subject
- email body
- categories
- exclude categories
- content types
- exclude content types
- how many winners
- number of winners 1-xxx (how many places are available (first,
second,etc...)
- exclude user groups (administrators, anonymous,...)
- repeat contest (automatically create new contest after this one will
be
closed with same options)
- republish node checkbox
- when contest is automaticaly closed then it will change date of
publishing
so it will be as a first post on the homepage
- sticky
- make contest sticky when closed
// PRIZES
- will be just node linking or text field (for example for strings like '$3000' or so)
- user can assign nodes to first place
(
for example if you will have products nodes you want to put into the contest as a first prize, second prize, etc... then you can just add node id and it will generate node teaser, etc... in the contest post...
)
//Development
- will work with VOTING API
- will be based on CRON
This is just PHASE 1, the next PHASE should be more flexible, with not
only sticked to VOTING API but any others, maybe there will be CONTEST
API which can be used by other modules for example userpoints,etc... and
other improvements...
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FANTASTIC! Thank you sign!
FANTASTIC!
Thank you sign!
Just checking in on things.
Just checking in on things. Will this work for all node types? And will it separate them. For instance will it know to not put a story and a video in the same contest?
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The original spec includes
The original spec includes the abiity to exclude content types on per contest basis.
It should work for any node type you have enabled voting for.
I can't wait! The timing
I can't wait! The timing couldn't have been better as I'm launching a new site very soon.
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help along
well since i started this thread i was wondering what i could do to help speed things along.....how are they coming....i can assist any many ways
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getting there!
it's taken longer than we anticipated, we're testing the module at the moment but theres still some features that need to be built and tested - we dont want to release something that will just cause a load of problems for everyone who tries to use it:)
looks like we'll be looking at an initial release within a couple of weeks!
cool idea guys
this is definitely something ive wanted and would be interested in implementing.
Blog Awards
I have created a half-working module that uses voting API for running a voting contest. This was an blog awards contest, but we had so many entries and overlapping categories and nominees, I tried something different for the implementation.
I created a CCK Node that held the blog name and URL. I used the taxonomy to organize our different voting categories. Users were not allowed access to these CCK nodes, they were for our internal organization. My module lets users vote on a node in a category.
I'm cleaning up the module now to not rely so much on our configuration, and plan on releasing it soon as a project on drupal.org.
Update
Guys,
you can download some code from cvs http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/contest/
I will try to keep daily updates in cvs from now. Please do not report bugs - still wip.
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I forgot to mention, that it
I forgot to mention, that it is for 4.7 version, when all functions will be ready, I will port it to 5
And you can try it here: http://www.sotak.co.uk/projects/contest
user admin
pw admin
and if you want to see results of closed contests, you should run cron.php and it will be generated
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Any new word on this?
Any new word on this?
Any new word on this?
Any new word on this?
open or closed?
is this still in the works? finished? 5.6 ready, even in use?
what is the current outlook, please advise of use or functionality.
location of module?
interested in knowing if an outline is needed for a future mod, or if this just needs development?
kasperjames
Thanks for your help and support:
www.kasperjames.com/
how is this coming along?
how is this coming along?
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Dead
Is Development dead?
I guess so I am trying to
I guess so
I am trying to figure out a way to use 5 star and views to run a contest
i can get views to display only the content in a certain month but i am not sure how to configure 5 star
Back in business
Sorry guys,
I am back and I am going to release contest module next week.
Module will be only for D5.
I will let you know.
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Can't wait to try it out.
Can't wait to try it out. Thanks for the update.
Can you give us some details on the module functionality
Can you give us an idea of what to expect in the module?
General information and interface?
The reason I ask is because I am looking to have four contest types
I was planning on using a video contest type, an audio contest type, a story contest type, and an image contest type.
The contest holders will post the contest with a start and end date, and there would be links in the contest post for other users to click on to add video, audio, story, or image nodes that are tagged with that contest node, etc... I've actually got this mostly working using cck! (yay) but its not exactly elegant so I am curious on how your module will function.
Thanks
Ruben
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much of it is already listed in this thread: see http://drupal.org/node/99574#comment-187941
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let me know if you need any
let me know if you need any testing i am down and free for a while (sickness)
any word?
any word?
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is the project dead ?
Hi,
I would like to know if the Contest Module Project is still alive or not.
Thanks
dropped the ball? ....SEEKING NEW DEVELOPERS!!!
i take it this guy hasnt been around for 7 months.
i updated this module issue:
http://drupal.org/node/168865
just letting everyone know, someone of us think about this module ALOT.
concerned, yet powerless without the knowledge to make it happon.
but i have posted ideas on how to make a flexable contest outline, suggestions are encouraged, let me know. PLEASE! what would you want in a contest module? becuase as you can see on that node for the project, ive got my own desires for it. but need to make it known. someone find someone who can make these dreams come true.
KJ,
Thanks for your help and support:
www.kasperjames.com/
Competition module
You could always have a look at http://drupal.org/project/competition. ;) Now that the namespace for Contest is open again, we could probably move it over to there.