Before you start

Hi,

I'm new here on the forum and also a new user of Drupal.

I have created several sites with different technologies and CMS (especially Joomla) but never with Drupal.

Today I decided to create my first site in Drupal and I need, if you allow, the assistance of experienced people here on the forum to start and make the right choice.

I created a space for my school student, I did some research and I need to know please among the list of issues cited in the list below:
1 - What Drupal can handle by default without installing third party components.
2 - What are the Drupal modules best suited to manage these issues.

- Videos.
- Document Management.
- Photo gallery.
- Manager form (can easily add form of BackOffice with simple clicks, creating different fields and labels, with validation-javascript ...)
- Management Jobs.
- NewsLetter
- FAQ
- RSS
- Site Map
- Liaison between articles and media (doc, photos, videos ...)
- Manager comments on articles.
- Poll
- Manager banners.

And one last module to be used for the presentation of school teachers, each teacher will have a photo, description, or the subjects he teaches, his diplomas and other info ... This module should be easily manageable in backoffice. I think this module should be developed hand in hand so I can use something like a catalog just ready to serve the same purpose.

I started to install the Ubuntu package of Drupal, but aborted when I saw that the package manager would revert MySQL back to 5.0 from 5.1.

I can't see anything on this site stating supported versions of MySQL, PHP and Apache.

Can someone help me find where this is documented?

Thanks

Hi all.

I would like to ask whether Drupal would be able to do the following and what modules etc I might need to achieve this.

I would like to develop a club listing based website.

Each club would register, submit data into custom fields, that data would then be stored in a database.

Visitors could then browse each club entry and/or search by specific criteria.

I would prefer to have each club page data displayed in a fixed manner possibly tables so that each club page has the same identical format.

So Im helping setup a site for my Wife and sisters reps. The sell purses and all there reps place orders by fillling out an excel sheet. They would rather this be done online. I looked at creating a webform but was thinking maybe there is a better way. Any suggestions? Im fairly new to this so thanks for the patients in advance.

Developing the site, which will contain a large number of copyright photos. What are the known ways to store large numbers of images that are inserted with Drupal.
Thanks

I'm setting up a data collection tool. Collection data from a semi automated production line.
I'm using labview to get data from sensors to a mysql database.

A webpage will display the data, and some php/python scripts will be used to do analysis on the data.

I'm investigating the possibilities of drupal (not really made for this purpose, but it's flexible) (i'm a first time user)

i also need to collect manual input, the data must be easy to access, import/export, extend, ...