Before you start

Hi I have been interested in Drupal for a while now, but had not ran across a client that wanted me to use it on their website. All I have done so far are simple static or small e-commerce. This is an idea for myself that I am looking to build. I am having a hard time determining if Drupal is the way to go and if I can do it using plugins or will I need to write custom PHP code.

In essence, I was users to be able to input data daily (date/time/text/numbers), using input fields and dropdowns. they can produce reports/logs from this data, based on dates. And be able to print them.

I'm building a website that will allow users to book and pay for events. I.e....
Present the user with a list of dates that still have availability.
Allow the user to make a reservation by entering her name & address, taking her to a paypal page, and finally take her to a page where she can print out a receipt/ticket.
Increment count of reservations for this date so availability can be calculated.

In my website, I put 7 exposed filters in a page in order to help the users to search the result. The question is they look ugly in one page, the first row has 4 filters and the second row has 3 filters.
What i want is every row has only one filter to make the page looks more comfortable.
Anyone can give me some suggestions?

Hi,

i have not worked on drupal, but a friend tell me that is possible to make a membership site with drupal.

I have some question before i will start with DRUPAL:

1.) Is it possible to make a membership site with drupal? Can you tell me a good module?
2.) Is it possible to make in the membership site a affiliate programm with 5 tiers?
3.) Is it possible to make the site multi lingual. I mean that the front end will be russian, english and german.

Sorry for my bad english!

Many thanks!

Best regards,

Matthias

I have a node that requires a lot of info from a user. Normally I'd add various fields, but I'm wondering, if I know how to create a custom table and register it with Views, as well as knowing how to create custom forms, should I just do that instead of using fields? I'd add my form using hook_form_alter (with validation and submit handlers), then just use hook_node_view to grab the results from my custom table and render the output how I want.

Any arguments against doing it this way?

Ok so my company is going through a lot of changes right now and one of those changes are converting all of our websites to something that is more cross platform. I know of Drupal's power so this was the first place I wanted to start. We have 4 websites that are currently .aspx and Silverlight sites. They are absolutely awful but that is as far as we will go there.