Drupal 7.x

Hi,
I have made a full tutorial to install Drupal 7.0 on NGINX with PHP-FPM (the new way to serve php, really awesome).

I have add APC for full speed.

The result work, it's incredibly fast, and stable.

Here my tutorial (write in Drupal 7 on the system I describe) :

http://qa.celogeek.com/freebsd/install/drupal7/overview

Please fill free to give critic or ask question.

Special thanks to NGINX team who make my conf work beautiful !

Geistteufel

I'm in the process of developing a somewhat unique social network using Drupal and I'm running into some intellectual roadblocks.

The first one comes in the form of creating groups of users, or rather, allowing users to create groups which they can then moderate on their own, possibly giving them the ability to create content which is only available to their group (think Facebook style status updates or Tweets which only the users of that group can see).

I guess the best way to explain this would be by using an example...(I'll use an office environment as the analogy to what I'm trying to accomplish here, and I hope this is translating from brain-to-page in a way that's constructive and easy to understand).

Hello Drupallers,

I'm working with a database of users that exists in another CRM system. Is it possible to override the built in Drupal user login so that, when a user logs in, I can compare it against a different data source and determine whether or not it's valid and then set a username, userid, etc.? If I can't override the existing function, how can I go about using the built-in user functionality so I can compare against a separate database and not require 2 sets of data. Are there any tutorials or sample code on how to accomplish this? Any help would be tremendously appreciate!

I wish to implement an accordion "Welcome" block on the front page of a site I'm working on. I do not have much Javascript knowledge at all (Yes, I plan on working on this). This is exactly what I'm looking to do:

http://jquery.bassistance.de/accordion/demo/

I'm under the impression that the jquery ui is already included in Drupal 7, and the behavior just has to be called?? What is the code that I need to input to call the accordion function, and where do I put this code? In the block itself?

I'd like to make a site that has:

Main page with rotating content (pulls random quotes or links to video: maybe using this:
http://mydrupal.com/random_node_or_front_page_in_drupal_like_stumbleupon)

Secure login (never store the actual e-mails - I guess Drupal 7 does this?)