Before you start

Hello guys.

Just started using Drupal yesterday spent a good 5/6 hours going through and seeing what is to offer and I think it is brilliant. This is the first CMS I have ever used so I am excited at the prospect of being able to have more power in the websites I build by using Drupal

The question I wanted to ask and I don't know if this is a really stupid question or not is this...

Looking to transfer a dotnetnuke site to a drupal. I know the site will have to be rebuilt - but need a cms that has an addon for a webcam to upload photos once every 10-15 min.

Please let me know if there is such and addon...

If not does anyone know a php cms that can handle this? Someone has had to use a webcam on a php cms site.

Thanks in advance for your replies.

Hello.

My father reads many history books, and he wants me to make a site with a database of quotes from these books.
The page must show every quote with the name of the:
- chapter
- name of the book
- autor(s)
- person(s) in the quote apear (with links to the information of these people, foto, etc)
- place in the map where the story happens (with a map)
- ...

I would like to navigate through this information, i.e. I would like to see all of the quotes from the same book, or about the same person...

I want to set up a large site, starting with a community forum.
- one group of generally accessible forums
- thousands of small closed user groups, each with their own forums, structured similarly or identically
- per closed user group, kind of CMS function with possibility to upload documents
- per closed user group, 2 or 3 levels of users with different rights
- each CUG to be moderated by own moderator, supervising user registration, ... to be appointed by webmaster.

It's more complex than this, but in a nutshell this summarizes it.

Hello All.

I have started to learn the Drupal system. So far I am very impressed with all of it's features. However, at times it seems that everything that was once hard is now easy.

Obviously the part that becomes easy is that other people can intuitively add content and change navigation. (a huge plus)

However, some things like a list of forms with corresponding links, seams to be more challenging for me, the developer/designer.

For example, do I create a content type with a Title (file name), a body (Form descriptions) and a file link (using the file field.) Using this functionality takes away the need to have people use FTP. This seems like a good solution to me.

I worry that if I take the application to my corporate environment, some of the individual customizations might be more challenging. I'm guess i will just need to learn the behind the scenes functionality if I am to have the same degree of flexibility that I would on a website written from scratch?

A major issue that I face is integrations. I currently utilize translation tables for seamless log ins with other websites. Would I create a user profile and then store the log in information on that profile and then create something (module, panel, etc.) to then pass that information along as I do now?

Hello,

I know and understand the term CMS and am currently trying to build one for a client myself using PHP for a dating site.

Now I have heard about these CMS applications like Wordpress, Joomla and now Drupal and what I would like to know is are they hard or easy to setup and what is the difference between each one ?

How much knowledge do you need with regard to languages like HTML, PHP, MySQL, CGI ?

I am looking to build a Political Website for myself, ideally as some of the ones created by the american politicians ?