Before you start

Hi all,
As the title states, im pretty confident in D7 with a few twists in being right for a project im working on.

Please offer some opinions/experience on the following scenario.

I plan to build a listing search engine. Think of it like an ebay (but no buying or transacting) for vertical markets. To get listings I am scraping data from various (dozens, eventually hundreds and hopefully thousands of listing websites) aggregating it and then using a better search facility to serve better/faster/more comprehensive results to a visitor.

I want this to run very light on a server/vps/hell even shared hosting...if possible, and I think it is.

Here is some things about this project.
1. No user management, no accounts, logins etc everything completely anonymous.
2. No transactions. You come you search you go.
3. The data driving this is not neat. It cant be, im scraping html websites...
4. High amounts of data, potentially millions of listings
5. Needs powerful faceted search.
6. The listings MAY be updated every couple of days as I rescrape those website, or if no update is found to that listing, the listing remains unchanged = prime caching oportunity.

Here is my plan.
1. Drupal7. No front end modules, everything stripped back as light as possible.

I am a senior web designer who try to design a theme for my own eCommerce store to sell sport goods. Once design is done, then I will hand over the theme to Drupal Developer for mock up. (feel free to recommend if you know someone is good with reasonable $)

Hello, I am relatively new to Drupal and have 2 questions:

1- I would like to create a blog in Drupal 7 and would like to know how to do that.

2- I want to be able to post white papers on my website but in order for users to view or download the white paper they have to fill out a form with their contact information "Name, email, phone number...etc"

Can you please give guidance on how to accomplish these 2 goals in simple steps.

Thanks!

So I am a web developer and I have Drupal (both 6 and 7) running on different sites. I swear by Drupal and I think its the best CMS's out there. I have this new client who asked me to build him a site where public users can:

Create a User Account, Agree to Terms and Conditions, then can Upload Photos, Rate Photos and Share Photos, Edit personal profile, upload new photos over old ones.

Hi there,

I hope I am posting my question in the right place. I have quite a complex (I think) job I am working on and I was wondering whether Drupal would be able to do this.

At the moment the scenario is as follows:

1. Server "A" which is on a local network in an office environment contains multiple directories each named after the client's username. Each directory contains files that ONLY the user associated with that directory should be able to access/download.

2. Server "B" which hosts the Drupal based website has an Rsync/Cron running which mirrors the directory structure of server "A" under "site/default/files/*username*/" and stores all the files saved on server "A" in the appropriate directory on server "B".

3. Clients have to register on the Drupal based website which will then give them access to the files located in their folder. In other words, if a user registers with the username "bob" he should be able to access/download all the files located in the "bob" directory via his profile page, after he has logged in.

So, to recap, the flow is as follows:

A file is stored on server "A" in the directory "bob" (for example)
That files is then mirrored on server "B" under "sites/default/files/bob"
When "bob" logs in to the site he should see a list of all the files in the "bob" directory.

I need to know if I can do this:

I have a content type called: "Flats".

I have to add 1000 nodes for this content type.

The only field I need to complete for all of them is the 'title'

I have the 1000 titles in a comma-separated-value format file called: title.csv

Is there any way to upload this file and add all the nodes in just one step.

Thanks