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I'm considering creating a site that will list sport games:

Hi,

reading the doco I think Drupal may just be what I am looking for, but to be certain I would like to ask whether it can be used to make a site like this:

- the site has news divided in sections, no comments needed. The news is automatically archived after a certain date and is from then on only accesible in the 'archive' section.
- the site needs something like 'send this link to a friend'.
- the site needs newsletter functionality. The mailings should actually contain a html page that is created in the backend and consists of choosen news topics. What I mean is, an administrator should be able to mark a news story to be included in the mailing.
- visitors can register themselves and add information about the music band they are playing in. This info however, should not be published until an administrator has approved the info.
- when visiting the site, the first page has a separate template with headlines and stuff. After clicking a newstopic or 'read more' or something, the template changes to a more conventional two or three column design.
- images and mp3 files should be easy to integrate in the content. Mass uploading to the server should be easy.

The administration should be as easy as possible because it will be used by almost clueless people ;-) .

I am not looking for out-of-the-box solutions here. I don't mind to do lots of custom development. But I want to be sure Drupal can help in the development and has no showstoppers for the above functionality. Ofcourse, if I succeed I have no problem giving the code of the modules back to the community.

I just have a question before installing Drupal.

I've been reading through this site over the last few days. I really like Drupal's features and also what I see! On the same note, I'll also admit that I'm a new learner when it comes to php and MySQL. I've just used php and MySQL once before and that is with my osCommerce site.

My host allows me only ONE MySQL database. So I plan on using this same database for osCommerce AND Drupal. My only question is when I run the sql queries for the installation of Drupal will it overwrite any of my existing tables?

How far is Drupal 4.5 or 4.6 supporting PHP5 and PostgreSQL 8? I'd like to upgrade, but I'd rather find out before if it works.

I would like to do the following:

1) Have multiple content sections on a page, for example Section A, Section B, Section C, with each section having a title and body.
2) Allow users with appropriate priveleges to edit content in sections
3) Display section titles on a different, summary page, and give users the ability to click on the title to take them to the page from #1 above

I am new to Drupal, but have searched the forums and don't have a clear sense of how to do this, or if it is possible without custom coding.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi! First of all let me start off by saying how impressed I am by the simplicity and flexibility that drupal seems to offer. It looks like a great CMS.

I have two sites for sure that I am going to use in Drupal but I wanted to get some input on how much traffic drupal can handle. I have a site that in it's busiest times averages about 180K a month. My main concerns are realibility and speed. I am looking at using Drupal for a large Community College's website and would like to get input on preformance issues.

Thank You and happy holidays,
Rebecca