Before you start

I was wondering if I could use Drupal for the following:

Hi,

we are planning to move our site from a self made CMS to something more managable. I'm right now in the process of evaluating Drupal, perhaps someone can help me with this.

The site is hosting a lot of tutorial like texts regarding different topics and subtopics (from health to programming) and written in different styles (plain text, text with pictures, texts with audio or video elements...) and it would be helpful to know if Drupal supports everything we need.

I would like to know whether drupal works on the localhost so that i can test it on the local server before installing it on my server.
I tried to install it on my win2000 system installed with xampp already installed. but when i try to do a http://localhost/drupal i get the following error : Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user 'drupal'@'localhost' (using password: YES) in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\drupal\includes\database.mysql.inc on line 31

Hi all:

Asking around in IRC as well, but here's the deal:

I started a role on a large, big-budget, high profile social networking project here in NYC. I'm making the case for Drupal, they want to decide today. Some code is already built from the ground up, but the case for Drupal is still valid as much of that code can be brought over, plus Drupal will handle so much else that would otherwise need to be built from the ground up.

This project is more complex than a lot of Drupal sites. Some big questions:

One issue is node relationships. This project has a lot of nesting, i.e. a parent content type has a bunch of children to be nested in that node (page), while each of those children is its own node as well. We need to be able to pull all the children (associations) at many different points. Different assets (pieces of content) are associated with different users and parent items, and we need to pull these associations at different points. Put simply, there might be a "main project", with multiple users applying to be in the project in some way, and they'd bring certain "assets", or pieces of content (say, the promotional poster) -- so we need to be able to pull the users on the project and the assets they've submitted to the project and more.

Anyone here used Node Family or considering it for big projects? Other relationship modules to consider?

Anyone here know of some real complex Drupal sites that utilize relationships or have a more complicated structure/hierarchy? I don't believe that mtv.co.uk (Lullabot) did this kind of stuff, but maybe someone here knows.

I've been wodnering this for awhile and I figured I'd ask because I'll probably be setting up a new site soon with Drupal.

I'm wondering if its possible to change the modules directory name?

I ask because instead of the http looking like: mysite.com/taxonomy ... I could make it: mysite.com/junk

I guess its all for athestic purpose because I'd see that address and be like, huh?? I'm not sure if the coding is built around what the directory is called or if you can rename them on a fresh install though.

Thanks.

I am interested in using drupal for a gaming news site.

I want to have a news section,

reviews section,

downloads section,

and a way to see games that are getting ready to be released.

Are there modules / is it possible to make this all work?

Thank you in advance for your suggestions and comments.

-Jim