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By mattbrand on
I am new to Drupal, and just getting started.
I am building a site where users will log in using a Facebook login, and, in one part of the content, will take a series of personality quizzes that will determine criteria about them. I then want to be able to access this criteria in order to display information on their profile page about them. I have PHP and MySQL experience, so I will be able to customize a database table that will store this information.
I have a couple of questions.
1. can I use the existing Quiz module to do this? I have it installed, and I have been researching, and as far as I can see, I can see the results of the quizzes as an Admin. And I can use the Views module to produce data reports for the quizzes. Is there any way to directly access the Quiz data? Or would the right tactic be to produce a CSV file (or the like) with Views, and read that to get the data?
2. what is the best way to learn about adding custom data tables to Drupal? Would I use PHPMyAdmin on the back end to add the tables? Or is there a module that allows for table creation and modification?
Thanks!
Comments
A suggestion
Hello,
I believe you are referring to a contributed module (I.E. "Quiz module"). If so, have tried posting your question if the issue queue for that module (e.g."Quiz module") . You would go to the project page and then look for the "Issues" links.
Since there are so many contributed modules, you would help folks in the forum, if you included a link to the module you are referring to (not just a name ) :).
Are you looking for just general documentation on how to develop modules for Drupal?
Gotcha
OK, great. I didn't realize that each custom module had its own Issues page. Thank you for informing me of that.
Yes, general documentation on Drupal development is what I am also looking for. I found this:
http://www.packtpub.com/article/creating-your-first-module-drupal-7-modu...
Is that a good place to start?
Thanks!
A suggestion
Hello,
Actually this site contains a huge amount of free (and great) info.
A small sample:
https://drupal.org/developing/modules
https://drupal.org/project/examples
http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal
Note! In general, if you are a programmer, then the best source of information is the Drupal source code itself. That's true of any "open source" project. That's the whole point, programmers use the source code.
Hope that helps. If you feel your issue is solved for this forum please edit your original post and add "[SOLVED]" either at the beginning or end of the subject line. Perhaps add a link to your post in the contributed module's issue queue. That way other folks can find and use your solution :)
Good Luck :)
Resolved
Great, thanks again.
As for the Quiz module, I found this answer here in the Quiz module Issues section to be very helpful:
http://drupal.org/node/488988