I want to make a website with (free) content(such as industry news, updated weekly at most) as well as (both paid and free) MySQL query output (product information).
I believe that Drupal would be great for the static/dynamic content part of the site.
I'm worried about displaying information to users.
I plan on having a database that is partially available for free. A user would be able to select check boxes to search for "Vehicles with 2-4 wheels which cost between 10,000-30,000 in Boston," and get the information they need, save the persons' contact information for most results.
I would also like to have a database which is behind a pay-per-query wall which can search a different database which is similar to the free one, except in that the information is complete and can find the sellers' contact information.
Both of the results should be shown in a table and the paid query should be done in a transaction kind of way.
Would the Drupal User Login features allow me to go as far as record how much they have in an account (if any) , or would this require many modules?
I'm familiar with MySQL output using PHP in Dreamweaver, and I'm curious as to how I could do this in Drupal.
I believe that the 2 functions of my site (static content and database search) are unrelated from a web-design point of view, but I want them to both exist on the same site.