Before you start

I've been looking at Drupal, along with Wordpress and Textpattern, for making a website for my church.

I really think that Drupal will be the best solution for the long run especially since the church is growing extremely fast. But I wanted to get some suggestions.

Here's the needs for the site:
-Event Management (+ a sidebar for upcoming events)
-Podcasting (for Audio and Video) Capabilities w/ Streaming
-Image and Video Galaries
-Posts with Inline Images
-A news section

My last post ("Considering Drupal for a Second Time") was incredibly helpful -- I got a lot of good responses from people and it gave me hope that I could, in fact, make Drupal do what I wanted it to do. So I've decided to set up a testbed on my laptop (with mysql and php) so I can set up a theoretically working "site" with all the functionality I need before I move it live.

All well and good -- but the question now becomes, do I use the release candidate of Drupal 5, in anticipation of its release, or do I use 4.7.4, since it has all the tools I need?

Hey everyone--first post here...

I have moderate experience with html and phpbb... and over the last few weeks I have looking and trying to configure a couple of mods to enable an easy portal type page for a Review Site...much like a restaurant review site...

That was until I stumbled upon Drupal...I'm excited to 'try' this piece of software out....so first off I would like to say thanks to all of the developers who make this available to me at no charge...and

I am trying, for the first time, to install Drupal 4.7 and am getting the error message:

"Internal Server Error, this is an error with your script, check your error log for more information."

I have noticed that this version of Drupal requires PHP version 4.3.3 but my web host is still at PHP version 4.3.10. So two questions spring to mind:

1. is this likely to be the cause of my Internal Server Error problems? and
2. will Drupal 4.7 work with this version of PHP or does it definitely need 4.3.3?

Thanks.

Dave

Hi all,

This is similar to the guy-before-me's post so I apologize for any redundancy.

I am developing a community based ticketing website. Each user selects two or three of several different communities that appear when the user logs in. The user is able to browse or purchase tickets from any of the communities he has selected.

Additionally, the user is able to post events depending on user privileges granted to him by other users.

Drupal offers a lot of really cool modules that seem to do approximately what I need them to do and I feel that the site could potentially benefit greatly from Drupal. However, I have two concerns:

1) Drupal programming seems to have a steep learning curve. I am Zend certified, but nonetheless new to PHP. While I am a quick learner, the thought of learning the Drupal API (for both programming and design) is a bit overwhelming.

2) Drupal seems most set-up for blogging (or similar content posting) onto a central site. I have not seen it used to create separate communities within a site.

As this is a forum for Drupal lovers, I assume you will tell me that it is possible to create the site by editing modules. Therefore, my questions are 1) where to begin 2) in how long (assuming intense studying) is it possible to grasp/learn to maneuver through the Drupal system and 3) assuming a very limited time frame for the site's development, am I likely to spend so much time getting comfortable with Drupal that the costs of learning would outweigh the benefits.

I'll start my first post by saying I've been playing with CMS's for years. First were the xoops and nuke varieties and then I started to meander into about 15 others. Unfortunately not a single one does what I need (and I honestly can't believe it doesn't exist).

I'm creating a site for a NON tech savvy community. I want each user to be able to create their own content pages. I need a simple / elegant CMS that will allow them to create content and upload images, but separate that content PER USER.

If I could build my ultimate CMS, here is what it would have:

1. Separate Content Pages for each user: Each user can only modify their own pages. Preferably each member would have a folder /username/content
2. Separated Images: Each user can only modify/access their own images. Preferably each member would have an images folder: (/username/images/)
3. WYSIWYG Editor with image insertion (images from their user/images folder)
4. Each user has a menu tree: UserName is the parent and each new page is a child below that parent menu item. Users can reorder their own pages but can not reorder other user’s pages.
5. FAST: Running on a VPS this thing should be clean, lean, and fast.
6. Clean URL’s: www.mysite.com/username/cleanname.html

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I can't believe there isn't a CMS that does this out of the box. Why do all the existing CMS's allow each user to edit/modify other user's content pages? Why do many mix up images and content navigation trees?