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I am trying to determine if drupal would be able to accomplish certain functions needed for our website, plugins are welcome to establish.

I'm setting up a new community based website which revolves mainly around Vbulletin as the preferred forum choice. The website is likely to be a very forum based.

However, other than just a pure forums, I'll also need to create the skeleton so that there's some semblance of a website - with some static articles and a nice layout of sorts. The skeleton or strucutre must be integrated with the Vbulletin forum so that a user to the main site and the forum will not notice any difference between the two.

I am going to try using Drupal for a new site. I have a few questions regarding users.

ok i have so many questions and have no clue where to start so i will just pick some random points.

I have been working on a media and data site for the last 2 years developed in asp with some friends of mine, we are using asp because we know it the best and
well we are not starting over at this point in the game LOL. the data end is almost done and we are looking at finding a solid CMS to handle the multimedia end of things, we plan on using some plugins/modules that are open source and others that we have build with php our selfs and some that are based on open source php apps that we have taken and ripped around and build for our own use. i have been researching CMS programs for about a month now and was starting to think that i might make my own, but i am getting really sick in re-inventing the wheel if you know what i mean.

I have looked at CMSMS, Geeklog, phpnuke and the whole based on nuke CMS groups ( seem like way to many ) I have found allot of errors,bugs and slow loading things with most of these and they do not seem to be able to do what i would like.

I run a large site which is already (mostly) complete. I am now at the point where I need to create a CMS, and add community based things like blogging, logins, etc.

I was against the idea of using a pre-built CMS because part of what I need to do, is very very specific to the content of my site (for example, making recommendations, adding users as favorites but having the favorite information come from stuff in my pre-existing/populated database, etc).

Hello All,