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I'm intending to build a website that will have reviews for many restaurants and was wondering how well Drupal could fit the bill. Here is a brief outline of my needs.

The submissions of new restaurants and reviews would need to be heavily moderated. Each page on a restaurant (and its associated admin pages) would have to be customised to contain fields such as style of food, location (link to map site), sample menu(s), photos (uploadable submission/edit), price guide, ratings etc.

As a non-technical person, I have trouble understanding the following part of install.txt and would be grateful for some clarifications:
mv drupal-x.x.x/* drupal-x.x.x/.htaccess /var/www/html

Hello everyone,
I am building an entertainment/food/music/event website for my community and have been researching viable back-end solutions. I'm looking to have a profile set up for all restaurants and bars in the area and need them to be searchable and sortable by multiple categories. Is customizing database entires an option with Drupal? For instance, for every restaurant, I want to be able to have yes or no entries for whether or not they have live music, drink specials, dancing.. and such.

I think that Drupal is a very interesting system, and it seems very powerful and clean.

I don't know if it can do what I need, though.

I'm attempting to do something a bit like Slashdot, except for only gaming news, where users can submit stories that moderators have to approve before they will display on the front page. Can Drupal do aynthing like that?

Also, this isn't something that is as important, but would be cool, is there an add-on that lets users rate others comments (again, similar to Slashdot)?

Hello,
I know you guys probably and completly understand this. But would someone mind giving me an actual example of why or when this would be applied?

And I'm sorry, but I also need to ask another question (probably silly to some of you), is a sub-domain considered a 'multi-site". and if so, would a person be able to use different themes as well while tapping inot the same tables? I'm asking because the current project lays out better as a sub-domain, though I've never done one yet and was trying not to.

hi!

now, i have a members area with htaccess and static html pages. in the area, there are a few perl cgis. i'd like to switch to drupal, but i need this cgis and i don't want the users type in there password twice. is there already some perl code for finding out, if a user is logged in? or is this easy to find out?

markus