Hi all,
Of course, I am new to Drupal. I first heard of it less than 7 days ago. Within that time, I have installed, played around with, read 75% of a decent Drupal book for beginners, and gone over the Handbook several times. I still struggle to find the information that I'm after....
I want to build a site with the following functionality:
Allow user's to register a profile, whereby information that they supply at registration will be stored somewhere, so that future searches can be made, and the profile can be returned
Allow visitors to carry out a "double" search (is this known as a guided search?), i.e - They can chose a location from one drop down box, chose a subject area from another drop down box, and that combined search will return all of the user profiles that are in THAT area, with THAT subject area (defined when they registered).
A visitor will be able to contact a member (a user with a profile), whereby secure contact is made via the site.
The member then receives a message into "their" profile, and also via email, whereby the sender is MYSITE
The visitor can receive an email from MYSITE, whereby a password is supplied, and is required in order to access the given link in the email
The visitor can pay the member via MYSITE, through some form of payment system.