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Here's the story, as a group project in school we have to create a database driven website. It was suggested by someone that we use drupal and one of my team mates jumped on - forget the fact that we'd never heard of it until then. I suppose I'm just looking for some reassurance that we can do this site the way we want in drupal, right now I keep thinking of the things we need it to and no idea how to go about them in drupal.

Basically it's a site for our campus. The home page would be an events page that would display any relevant college news, such as a closures, annoucments - perhaps a link to a calendar - this part seems easy. Users would then log into the site and be redirected to their own profile, menus would depend on the usertype (students, instructors, instructional coordinators, student council, etc).

Students should be able to view their weekly schedule for their current semester of their program as well as a booklist (and possibly a student job bank)

Instructor should be able to view class lists, workloads

Instructional coordinators should be able to create schedules, booklists and assign workloads.

(there are a few other things we would have liked to do but right now I'm trying to simplify things for us)

Hi, fellows.

We need to handle these:

- nutrients (wich have a decimal value)
- foods (wich have nutrients),
- recipes (wich have foods) and
- menus (wich have foods and recipes)

We are evaluating Drupal as a framework to develop a website dealing with this data. D7 entities seem to be the right way but we are not sure about it. Can anyone please tell us if this data model can be handled in a pretty straightforward way and roughly how that way would be ?

I have an idea for a web based service that is more on the e-commerce side of anything really. Certainly not a social networking site or a blog site. My idea is fairly simple and I believe I have all the high-level 'modules' I will require. I am hoping to get input for this forum as to what modules for drupal would meet my requirements.

modules required:
1-account management system - registration, sign-in/out, user profile - this requirement is for users that can subscribe to a service I will provide noted in requirements 2. This requirement seems pretty simple and seems inherent to drupal.

2-subscription mangement system - registered user can sign up for a service, can subscribe to the same service more than once (this would make sense). Subscription service would be paid through pay-pal (silently or otherwise) with auto-renew once per year.

3-email tracking system - for each subscription, an email will be sent out once per x days and must be responded to within y days. If no response after y days, a reminder email is sent out. If no response to either email after z days, a final notice is sent out. If no response after n days, an action is noted internally to be taken. If response has been made, the timer is reset to send a new email 30 days later. - this module should be fully automated and I would guess is one of the more difficult requirements.

Hi,I would be incredibly obliged if you all experienced people here can help me out with two queries of mine
I am not very experienced in drupal and have the following requirement
I am working on an ecommerce website through which I will sell educational (TestPrep)products.I also want to have a really fantastic discussion forum .

Dear All,

I have really good experience on MYSQL,PHP,JAVA(Architect),Oracle (DBA) ,FLEX and have good understanding on HTML( But never done any live project)

I am building a web site with 4 tabs ( Home,Q&A,Discussion,Read Blogs).

There are 100,000 users in the system

Hi All
I am new to drupal & doing some R&D before I start. I have a project deployed in remote testing server where me & other developers/tech.writers work. & we use to review that project on that testing server only. But now after making the project live how we should update live server project? Like everytime after working on testing server how we should update our project in live server? We are using Microsoft VSS for version controller.

Any help or suggestion is really appreciable..

Thanks & Regards-
Souvik