By sangmister on

Hi everybody,

I'm currently test-driving drupal on my webserver and so far I can say that I pretty much like it.

The reason why I'm taking a look at drupal is that I want to migrate a website that is currently run with TYPO3. It offers a program where users can log in and get daily health information based on their profile. To be more specific:

- When a new user creates an account, he is asked a number of questions about his health status and his daily routine.
- The user can start the program at any time and gets a number of content elements based on his answers.
- E.g. a smoker will get different daily messages than a non-smoker. Depending on his weight, a user will get different excercises, etc.

It seems to me that drupal is perfectly suited for this plus a number of other features that I want to add in the future (personal blogs, forum, faq, etc.). I am just totally overwhelmed by the vast number of modules and I can't find a module (or modules) that will allow me to create the functionality as described above. Please don't think that I'm too lazy to search - I've done a number of searches. Maybe it's because of my limited english (I'm from Germany) but I can't find anything that would help me.

So I'd like to ask the community for any tips, hints or clues to get my site started. Any help is highly appreciated!

Thanks!

Bernd,-

⋅ Categories: Drupal 8.x

Comments

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

Hard to tell, but this sounds like core + Rules?

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Stefan Lehmann’s picture

Stefan Lehmann commented

As Jeff said, you probably can already solve a lot of the problems directly with the Drupal core modules. For instance building your basic data model is probably just creating different content types and taxonomies and relating them to each other in a sensible way (preferably by using the Entity reference module).

To the question which modules to use, maybe have a look at this list: https://www.drupal.org/project/project_module

These are the most installed modules. I'd probably read through the description of the first 30 or so and find out, if it would be helpful to you or not.. And if it's helpful, install it, as you will sooner or later end up installing it anyway. But beware, some of them are trying to solve the same problem(s) .. so often you will have to make a decision between the one or the other. At the moment I'd probably would have a look if a module will be supported by D8 or not and make a decision based on that.

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sangmister’s picture

sangmister commented

...to both of you!

The deeper I dig into drupal, the more I see that I might not need a singular module rather than a number of modules for specific tasks. But you are absolutely right - a lot of the things that I want to achieve is already possible with core functionality.

Thanks again for your answers!