By AustrianPride on

hy,

i want to make a new website with Drupal 7 for a youth community in our town.
before a fews years i tried some things with Drupal 6 but now i will work more intensive with Drupal 7.
i would like to know what modules are the best to use for this project.
what i need for the page at any rate:

Event calendar (with possibility to sign in and out for events)
Forum
Chat
Picture Gallery with Slider for faster showing
Shoutbox
PM System
Smileys
Typical Profil with some fields (relationship, hobbys, etc..., like on facebook)

maybe additional:

Friend requests
user point system
integrated mp3 player on the website

As i read some times it should be very important to use the modules CCK and Views... Where can i find good manuals or better video tutorials for this? Is there a module available like at Joomla where more community modules are packed in one? Hope you can help me, thank you!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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vm commented

event calendar = a custom content type with the calendar.module or fullcalendar.module and views.module to create and filter lists.

forum = the core forum.module

chat modules

picture gallery = a custom content type with your imagefields and the views slideshow.module

private message = the core contact.module or the privatemsg.module

smileys = if using a wusiwyg editor use the native smileys else see where this project is at for D7

profiles = Profile2.module or use the core user entities

views tutorials = google nodeone see nodeone and the advanced_help.module

packaged modules = distributions which can be found in the downloads area. Whether or not there is one specifically for D7 community sites ... I don't know.

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AustrianPride commented

thank you, i already startet with the project...
i will have some questions soon i will ask here =)

my first question is:

i have comments in the forum under the posts... how can i remove this?

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vm commented

administer -> structure -> content types -> forum content type

edit the comment settings

although what good is a forum with no commenting?

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AustrianPride commented

thank you, works :)
no i´ve meant the drupal comments not the forum comments (answers) :)

my next question is:

How can i add a userlist where all registered members are listet?

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tinny commented

Install the Views module then create a view showing users.

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tinny web development

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AustrianPride commented

thank you.. it worked fine with the view modul and userlist...

now i have new questions...

How can i set different picture sizes for comments and forum posts (the pictures have the same size as on the profil page)
How can i add more fields to the profile page (for example: gender, relationship, hobbys etc...) so it looks more community friendly and its possible to get more information about the person.
How can i delete the option "Switch to plain editor" and the "textformat switch" under posts... i just want to use one editor for all types of posts (Full Html)

hope you understand what i mean and can help me... thanks!

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vm commented

add more fields = administer -> configuration -> people -> account settings -> manage fields

hiding the text format switch will likely require a custom module and use of hook_form_alter
switch text editor link can be hidden with CSS, though I'd check all settings in the editor first. seems to me there should be a setting to disable that

different size user pictures can also be dealt with using CSS by setting height and width

in future best to start new threads with new questions.