New Drupal Site: Rate My Christmas Tree

Posted on 09 December 2010 in
Drupal websites YADS cool announcement

Ever wondered if your Christmas Tree is really any good? Well last weekend I decided to make a website for this purpose. It's just a bit of fun really! You login using your Facebook credentials (using Facebook Connect) and can create Chrismas Tree posts by linking to Flickr or Facebook photo's. You can then vote on your favourite tree's in an "A vs B" type match. If you like the sound of this and fancy something a bit festive, please give it a go and let me know if you have any thoughts! Head over to Rate My Christmas Tree :-)

I've published one of the modules this site produced: Media: Facebook. This module allows you to embed a Facebook photo into an EmField by simply copying and pasting the page URL from Facebook. The module then usesthe Facebook API to lookup all available sizes. It is a beta and still needs work, but certainly covers the basics.

I've also written a custom module for comparing and voting between two nodes. I looked into the Voting API (which is AWESOME), btu it only allows you to store a score aginst a single node. I need a system which defined a "left" and "right" node and a "winner". I also looked into the Smackdown module, which looks great too - however that seems to force you to create a "competition" node for every competition. That could get out of handy very quickly (assuming the site gains any kind of traction). So I wrote a module called Compare (which I've not released yet). It will allow you to create "profiles" of votes. Each profile has it's own role-level access control and stores the User ID, Left, Right, Winner and Timestamp of each vote. The vote URL also uses Drupal's private key system to generate secure URL which is limited to only work for a certain period of time. The hash used to secure the URL also stops people changing the left, right or winning Node ID to anything other than that intended. I want to do more work on it before I release it though.