Before you start

I want to create a website that will allow people to:
1) Register with the website
2) Once registered, they can upload their CV to the website.
3) They can attach a picture to their CV, which will automatically be resized to a web friendly size.

Hi everybody,

I want to create a more complex site and not sure if Drupal can handle it.

It will be one URL to reach the site. English (www.xxx.com - just as example) will be the landing site. Language swap links to sub-sites (deu.xxx.com / chi.xxx.com / ita.xxx.com / ...). or would it be best to just create a landing page with the user to choose what language he wants to get?

Following languages:

- Afrikaans
- Arabic
- Chinese (simplified)
- Dutch
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portugese (Brasil / Portugal)
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Thai

One master login and seperate logins to all diffrent language sites.

I can setup as many SQL Databases as I want, but the content databases will be used by all sites together.
My idea is to set a cookie, dependant on the language the user has chosen. This cookie is needed to select
the right language content from the databases and creates the output dynamic by the PhP script.
So can all "sites" use the same menue but the "storie" content of each language is only shown in the choosen
languages, means added by the editor of that language. To clearify, only english content is shown on www.xxx.com,
german on deu.xxx.com, french on fra.xxx.com and so on.

I made a fresh drupal 5 install and without even enabling any other modules (except devel to monitor query execution time) and not creating any content, when I go to localhost/drupal sometimes it is showing that the queries (9+) are taking 200+ millisecond each and if I hit refresh it is showing 2+ milli second each. Why is that so much of a difference for the same queries.

Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Based on the drupal architecture as it looks like drupal is going to included all the files in the included folder (around 19+) as well as the module (core required + enabled) files at the bootstrap process as it needs to call hook_menu and hook_help from all the enabled modules, I would like to get an idea on how it co-relates to the performance compared to a non-drupal site.

I would like to know the relative performance difference between following 5 scenarios:

I was planning on installing Drupal on the Pair webmaster account which includes "PHP as a module".

I don't know what that means and just wanted to know if it is compatible with drupal?

Thanks,

Brad

Up to now, I've been a mega ExpressionEngine user and will continue to be, but I'm also looking into supporting Drupal. From what I've read, it'll be quite a bit different from EE and will probably have a fair learning curve. I'm familiar with PHP/MySQL though, so I hope that will help keep the curve reasonable.

I have two questions before I dive in:

1. Should I wait until v6 is released or go ahead and make the plunge with 5.2?
2. Besides the docs, what are some good resources for learning Drupal?