I’m looking at whether Drupal 7 might be a good choice for a site I need to do in my spare time on a voluntary basis i.e. I don’t have time to build it from scratch using one of the PHP frameworks which is what I would typically do.
The site will be built around animal data. I will have Animals, Pictures, Locations and Votes (votes against pictures of the animals). I also need to store meta data about the images like animal orientation, location etc.
My question is how do I achieve these data relationships in Drupal 7? Do I need content-types, Views, Taxonomies, Vocabularies or a combination of all of these things? Or do I need to write a custom module with its own data structure?
I want to use Drupal 7 as I think by the time I complete the project, Drupal 7 will be released.
I’m not sure if you still need to know the answer to this – but I’d say that Drupal would be pretty good for what you want to do.
You are likely to need CCK types & views. Taxonomies might be needed as well, depending a bit on what you want to do with the data.
Try to create a basic drupal 7 site, and create some CCK types. Then you can take a look at how hard it is to build things up. There’s loads of good videos which can teach you about this.
James