On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Chompz Admin <chompzer@gmail.com> wrote:
I am new to Drupal and I am trying to create a website that would allow people to search for and vote on items. I have been considering creating my own custom module or using the CCK framework. Welcome to drupal. Unfortunately, it is generally accepted that this isnt a particularly good use of this list (unless I'm mistaken?) Ignoring that for a moment as you are a new developer, here are some contrib modules to research before you reinvent the wheel.
The page will have a series of filtering options, which users could select by clicking on buttons and check boxes. CCK faceted search maybe?
This input would be used to query my database for items that have a similar description and return a image and information of similar items to the user. lucene, porter stemmer, not sure on this one.
(For the images, I am planning to store the image location on the database and use location to retrieve the image from the file system.) Imagefield, imageapi, imagecache
After these items are displayed the user should be able to vote on one item and this data would be tracked. Users should also able to undo their vote and vote on a new item. Fivestar, flag module or build something on voting api.
Good luck and please consider joining IRC or use the support list for future emails like this. -mf