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Hi,

I am about to embark on a new web site project and was considering using a CMS instead publishing a normal static web site.

What I want to do is create a football club directory site where site visitors can search for football clubs in their area. Also I want football clubs to be able to submit their details for addition to the site and the site be able to automatically include their submission in the directory.

I'm looking to create a site for my band. All I want to do is have a back-end login page where only one specific user needs to have access to the back-end portion of the site. From here content will be able to be edited. This content will only be editing a "News," "Concert/Show List," and a photo album. I do not need or really want to have the option to create new pages, or even new content. Additionally, I'll want to embedd into my already created css/html site, not use templates or edit templates to fit my needs. Is How would I go about using Drupal to do this?

For a subscribers-only website that I want to build with Drupal, I want to be able to sell both individual subscriptions and group subscriptions (i.e. site licenses). Here are my specs for the site license scenario:

I am considering Drupal to replace a 10-year-old perl script (!) for a subscribers-only website.

One feature we added a few years ago (to the perl script) was the ability to prevent subscribers from having an active login/session on more than one browser/computer at the same time. This is to prevent people from sharing logins. If someone tries to use a login that is currently active, they are given the choice of ending the other session (and proceeding to the subscriber-only content) or trying again later.

Can Drupal do something like this?

Doug Addison

Hi i am considering using drupal for a website i am building, But i require a registered user area and the users account must be made by the admin. User must not be able to sign up on the site sounds strange but its the way i have to do it. Also is it possible to set areas of the site so they can only be viewed by the members that the admin has created??
Also could someone one tell me drupals benifits over phpnuke?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Can I do something like the following with Drupal and if so, which modules would be helpful/necessary?

I'm in discussion with an office that receives paper documents from various contributors. The documents are assigned to a staff member for review. Once reviewed, the persons who submitted the document need to be advised of the outcome of the review process. In addition, the persons who submit a document, along with other persons involved in the process, need to be able to check the status of the document review. Finally, the staff member conducting the review sometimes needs to request additional information from the persons who submitted the document.

Currently, the people who submit the documents have to call or email to inquire as to the status of the review. Requests for additional information are generally communicated via email or snail mail. And once a review is completed, the result is either sent to the submitting persons via email or snail mail.

So I'm wondering if the submission and review process could be put online, with the submitters and reviewers all set up as users. The documents are assigned a unique number so the ability of a person to log in and search for the status of a particular document review should be easy enough. And I believe that the person conducting the review could post a request for more information, or the outcome of the review, as a comment which could trigger an automatic email notification to the persons who submitted the document for review in the first place. An RSS feed would probably make more sense, but the users who would be served by this website are not necessarily that technically inclined. The email notification doesn't need to go to all users, only to the ones involved in the submission of the document .