Before you start

I did a search for the search module for drupal 6 and got various reasons why the search module does not work. One of the reasons could be down to my hosting company. even though I have put up some files for my site to search the nodes, it still doesnt display it. it doesnt show any errors to why it doesnt show the results. but I did upload search modules like Multisite search it then came up with access denied to the database.

I wish to make static pages of a pager, what for example page/frontpage? page=4 at addition of new materials did not change. For this purpose it is possible to change the order of sorting of materials and new materials will appear the last. But then will have to invert a pager that was for example " main 691 690 599 598... Last ". Advise the decision.

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Hi,
I am a developer with no Drupal/PhP knowledge (only java, c#, vb). I was asked to develop a site for a group of academics (genocide prevention). Site requirements are mainly:

1. Access: should allow fine-granularity administration, restricted anonymous access to a few nodes, and control of VIEW, EDIT, DELETE to authenticated users by role (likely three or four different roles: group members, and third party casual users such as NGOs or governments reps)

2. Forums: this will be the core of the site so it will be good if it could have similar look and functionality to other existing forums. Some forums should be viewable (but not updatable) by anonymous users, others viewable/updatable by authenticated users only. Some roles should be able to view but not to update.

3. Document management/archive: relatively simple, but needs to group documents and allow authenticated users to upload and download. (in the more distant future maybe collaborate on writing too)

4. Mail: allow intercommunication among authenticated users, both one to one and one to many.

I need to have the site running in a month or two. I've had a bit of a read and from first look, unless I am mistaken, it looks like Drupal is currently not in an ideal position for these requirements:

1. + 2. Advanced forum which seems to be ideal is not expected in months.

I'd like to put together a site that is essentially a list of events (potentially thousands), where each event has it's own forum (and perhaps photo gallery, etc, later on).

The main page would be the events listed by date. Each detailed event page would have the details in one column (description, date, location, etc), and the associated forum threads listed in a second column.

Developer description
We are in need of a contract developer who can work fast and loves code. The interactive pieces we work on range from Flash banner ad units to dynamic database driven websites. So we need someone who is able to work with a variety of languages without missing a beat. You should have a strong background in building highly dynamic web pages using DHTML, CSS, XML, AJAX and Javascript. Strong history of working with Drupal as a development platform will be needed as well.

Is Drupal reasonable CMS for social network with user pages like in netvibes.com?
Or maybe reconstruct it for such a task is as painfull as starting from scratch?