Hello, I'm looking to make a website where users can signup and submit mods to a database and I can organize them in categories, categories can then be sorted, tops mods view, etc. I have experience with PHP and mysql but don't really feel like programming this when there has to be an easier solution out there. I'm thinking possibly joomla or maybe wordpress? But I don't knwo what plugins would be neccesary. If anyone has any input or ideas that would be awesome.
You're talking about mods as in game-mods, and the like? Ie, uploading files with potential damaging capabilities (executables, etc.) to the server? First of all, I would suggest that you limit the uploads to zip-files (or, archive files). That being said, you could probably do this with Wordpress - you would have to create specific subpages based on mod-categories etc. You could also implement some sort of sorting system that would allow users to cherry-pick (also via loose-text search) - you'd need to add some tables to the database (probably better than using the built-in Wordpress uploads-tables - although that can also be utilized, of course). Depending on what you want the users to upload (just the mods, or also descriptions, pictures, etc?) you could do this very simple, or very advanced.
Yes video game mods. It would probably be uploading zip files that has all the mod specific files in it. I'll start playing with wordpress and see what I can figure out.