Greetings, I am currently working on a new project. The site is a very simple user based interactive site where any user can upload or download from the site. I am not quite sure what type of site this would be classified. Here is a breif description of what I hope to accomplish.: I want visitors to have the option to login or register to the site. Once logged in I would like for these users to have the option to upload or download content. It's a very specific site so there will only be one thing they will upload or download. In short all they will upload is a link to a file download and a text comment submitted with the 'post'. Each of these submitted links can be commented on and voted up or down. Sorta like reddit but not really. Just in that aspect. There will also be categories that these user submitted files (links to the files) can be submitted under. This way if someone is looking for a specific file they can chose which category they are looking for. I know this is very vague but for my purposes that's fine. I am simply looking for thoughts as to where I can find some tutorials or training videos for this specific type of web site development. A user driven site where users can upload links/posts to different categories, comment on those links/posts, and upvote/dowvote the posts. Pretty straight forward. Also looking for you're thoughts on the best way to develop something like this. I like to code by hand but would a framework be best? If so which ones? etc,. Thanks in advance!
Take a look at Buddypress, I believe you can get all of these features done using some plugins. Other way is you can just get the reddit script here: https://github.com/reddit/reddit I believe, buddypress would be best option for you.