By bluebomb on

Well to start, this is what I've got:
http://www.themodguys.com

It's my failed attempt at a modding project site with user submission. As you can see, the whole user submission thing was left out. I'm not the greatest with PHP/MYSQL development. I did manage creating a make-shift CMS that myself and other administrators could use to easily post to different sections, but it was very messy. What I wanted was something where users could get together and post projects they are working on and collaborate. I couldn't get it to work just right for regular user submission, so I simply gave up on it.

BUT, one day I stumbled across Drupal and have been playing around with it. Seems like it has the ability to do what I want, I just don't know where to get started. I would like to run Drupal as a base for themodguys.com so I don't have to worry about coding the CMS to work with a large number of users.

Simply put, I would like as much advice/help as possible in getting a new version of themodguys.com up using Drupal as a base.

Thanks in advance!

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VM commented

A brief look at your site shows you do podcasts for that investigate the audio.module

with regards to other features you may want, you'll have to investigate the downloads area of drupal.org.

you don't ask a specific question, thus it's difficult to give a specific advice or a specific answer.
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bluebomb commented

Sorry for the vagueness. Specifically I'm looking for a good way to allow users to submit projects. It needs to be simple to use while supporting images and advanced formatting.

Also, on my development server I've created a new page and a new node type, called Projects. I was wondering what the syntax is to pull the latest 5 submissions using the Projects node type to the Projects page I've created.

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VM commented

for that you would investigate the views.module which is a query writer. Documentation for views can be found in the handbook -> contributed modules -> views section. It takes some trial and error thus working through the tutorials there, should help you navigate the waters.

depending on the depth of this "projects" idea you have, you may also want to investigate the projects.module which is what Drupal uses to distributed contrib modules and core.
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