Before you start

I am in the process of building a new site.

The site will largely a content site which, of course, drupal is perfect for.

In addition to the content, I am wanting to incorporate a db of providers dealing with the content.

I will want to include a link to a page with the same theme that will a list of links that will allow the user to drill down from state, to city to get a list of providers pulled from the db. I will want to use mod_rewrite on this to clean up the URLs and make them more indexable as well.

We have all our website data stored in XML and looking for a cms that is XML compatible. It is possible to use drupal with a xml database? Typo3 is not very good for xml, so is drupal?

Is it possible using Drupal to set up a website with a number of different sections, each of which use a different theme.?

Thanks,
Alan.

I am sure this is possible but does anyone know of a drupal installation with this type of drop-down menu installed:

http://www.globalministries.org/index.php

this is a mambo installation with the Trans Menu modeule installed (free from mambotheme.com)

If someone can point me to a drupla page or template with this type of menu.

Are Drupal a file flat databse or not need DBMS like MySQL

Hi there,

I have never used Drupal before. I heard it might be able to do what I want so I am coming here to find out. I have a domain for commercial real estate listings and I want people to be able to come to the site and subscribe with paypal to post a listing. Maybe they can also choose a length of time to subscribe for or use other gateways.

I also wonder if there might be some sort of bidding, where they can bid to have their listing listed higher on the page.

Is this sort of thing possible?

Thanks in advance for your help.