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I am thinking of starting a new project related to www.expertstown.com with Drupal but I've heard some people saying it's not very safe. I don't think so because there's a lot of people using it. What's your experience with security problems?

Hello all, and thank you for reading this.
I Think this thread is in the correct location, and that (some of) you are willing to cooperate on this.
I was pointed to Drupal by Eelke from the phpBB Q&A Team.
So far, what ive seen, makes me think Drupal might be the correct platform to do this site on.

heres the project:

In my home town in Germany we have started a nonprofit community witch is roughly translated "community aid"
we are a group of vollunteers who want to:
1 increase community cohesion
2 suply aid and services wich are not currently available.
We intend to work closely toghether with existing groups wich offer aid and services.

this is how it should work

Help is given and received by members of the community only. (due to insurance matters)
the membership costs are only 12€ a year (wich is irrelevant here, no need for payment module)
a member needs help (lets say hes old and a lot of snow is in front of his house)

I want to create a website for a movie theater. I think drupal would be a good fit, and want some advice about which modules I should use. It will be pretty basic:

- Homepage that displays a list of movies and movie posters (pulled from an XML file of image URLs and titles)
- A few mostly static pages with info like ticket prices, directions, history of the theater
- An image gallery containing about 50 photographs of the theater

I have used other CMS before but not Drupal. I have a few questions that are easy to answer:

I'm planning to set up websites using Drupal on a university server. The network admin policy is not to allow any use of FTP, only SSH. Does this create any significant problems in terms of (a) installing Drupal (b) developing (c) updating modules (d) external users uploading files to the database?

Hi

I am wanting to build a small internal HR corporate website, that will have some basic "static" pages setting out policy statements on it but also at one point I need to integrate it to a database that contains a list of staff and their holiday dates. For example, each staff member will have their own login and based on a particular internal staff reference for the database key will be able to load their staff holiday dates.

Other users can then query the database and be returned information such as whether a particular date already has a staff member on holiday? that kind of thing

Can Drupal do this kind of relatively basic database/mysql integration and if so is it module dictated? If so, what modules should be be looking at to read around the functionality?

I'm also thinking that later on down the line it will expand and staff will be able to upload thier own word/excel(...) based medical forms etc.. to the database and ultimately use it as an HR file store?

Thanks