By Op_Maat on

Hey everyone, I'm working on a project for a company that sells wood online. The goal is to build a community where people can come together, share projects and get help with their projects.

There are plenty of software solutions that can facilitate this, but most of them offer a cload based hosting service, which we definitely don't want. One of the developers in our team suggested drupal as a framework for part of the community website. This part will consist of a page where community members can post their projects with pictures and text to elaborate on it. I'm tasked with finding out if that's a viable option. Problem is, I'm not that familiar and Drupal in specific. The application is too specific to find out on my own, so I came here.

My question in short is:

Is it possible to use Drupal to build a CMS aimed at community members for them to upload their projects to?

If anyone has ideas, tips or suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

Best Regards,

Zagen

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vm’s picture

vm commented

yes. create a project content type with the fields needed.

pixelsweatshop’s picture

pixelsweatshop commented

Yup. Take a look at https://www.drupal.org/project/social for some inspiration (or even use it as the base for your own project).

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fkelly12054@gmail.com commented

I'd recommend taking a close look at some of the recent statements of direction from Dries Buyteart, the originator of Drupal, for example:

https://www.drupal.org/blog/state-of-drupal-presentation-april-2018

Then I'd talk to your developer and see if he is up to and enthusiastic about supporting Drupal over the next 5 to 10 years.  Technically, Drupal is at the head of the class, but maintaining it can be a pain.  No matter what you do your data is going to be "in the cloud". 

You need to insist that your developer will support Drupal 8 and wherever it is going and whatever update methods if supports for a few years out. 

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Op_Maat commented

Thank you all, I will meet with the team today and discuss how we are going to proceed. Thanks for the references as well!