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I'm looking for module suggestions for a 5.x or 6.x Drupal site that I'm hoping to create which will be focused on movie reviews in a certain genre. The following is what I'm looking for in functionality (that I have not yet found).

Can any one help me to create a full multi media site with drupal including image gallery, pictorial reports, videos, mp3s and so on ?

Hi All, I'm new to Drupal and am almost through reading Pro Drupal Development (second edition). I currently run a site I created with the cakephp framework but strongly feel Drupal provides for more efficient expansion so I'm almost ready to make the switch.

My question is: can I, using Drupal's admin interface, pick and choose which pages any given block is shown on? If so, please point me to information on how I would go about doing this. From what I have read, i understand it as the block is either on or off (not controlled on a page by page basis).

I'll be as specific as I can in providing an example usage:

I have a Product Showcase that is user submitted - A visitor (can be anonymous) submits a form telling about their product. The form adds the entry to the database, the administration section is used to approve the listing before publication. On several pages, about 80%, there will be a block that has a few of these product listings. Another page will have all of the product listings and have a search function.

An example of when this would be needed:
Separate pages on the site get sponsored. If a page does not have a sponsor this showcase would be visible; If someone decides to sponsor the page I would like to be able to turn off the product showcase and turn on the advertising.

I have a business website that i'm looking to implement a CMS in... This is what i'm looking to achieve:

I work with a lot of companies with a lot of employees, i'd love for them to be able to create an account for their actual company, which then provides them with a customer number or something else unique... this "account" would theoretically do nothing other than put the information in a database.

Maybe some of you know Castle Quest 2, it's a realtime (or something like it) combat RPG textbased-game. It depends a lot on timed player interaction. Wich of course means caching is difficult.

Now what would I need drupal to do to be able to rebuild + enhance CQ2.

I didn't make the original game, I just play it.

I would need:

• Custom user profiles based on a class (Air, Earth, Forest & Death)
  • Character development
  • Resources (Brimstone, Crystal, Essence, Granite and Power) that can be gained every hour.
  • Blogs
  • Creature lists per user (the battle system depends on the creatures)
  • Notes / Private nodes (maybe shared with other users)
  • Facebook like status
  • Shop / trading center
  • lists (friendlist, enemylist and other custom created playerlists)
  • Resources and other items could be donated/Sold to other players.
• Community features
  • Player need to group up in Kingdoms (maybe Organised groups) with a max of 20 players/Kingdom
  • Alliances between Kingdoms with max 3 kingdoms that can join forces against other kingdoms
  • One central meeting point (with a central forum and a Marketplace) where players start the game
  • Players should be able to follow other players' actions

Hi, I am very new here.

I herd about this site all over the internet, may someone kindly tell me in simple terms what this site is for?