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Hey guys. I know Drupal has excellent permissions to adjust, one thing I'm wondering is does drupal have the ability to have a person enter a code when they sign up and that code enables and or restricts certain areas of the site. This code would have to be given to the user before he/she signs up of course.

Thanks in advance.

If you're into RSS, this is probably an interesting problem. If you're not good with RSS, -avoid- reading this - don't want to give you a headache.

I work with acupuncturists, and I'm going to have a plugin created to allow them to have an RSS feed from their site. The feed will be of successful treatment cases. This would go to a central site, where two things would happen:
1. The conditions would be listed on the main site, both as pages and as feeds based on categories (conditions treated).
2. Then acupuncturists would be able to subscribe their sites to the central feeds and have pages automatically created for them through a plugin on their own site.

I'm taking the feeds, aggregating them, turning around and feeding it back to the sites. I guess what I'm looking to do is called resyndication.

The end result is acupuncture sites would have different pages listing what acupuncture treats. Their own cases would be at the top, but they'd also have cases of successful treatment elsewhere listed below. This would make it a lot easier to cover everything that acupuncture treats.

I'm thinking about making a wordpress client for acupuncturists, and a central server in Drupal. Would the existing modules in Drupal make this relatively easy? Is there something that would help me understand which modules to use and how to go about this?

Thanks much.

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Hi,
I'm looking to build a web portal where users can upload stuff and share it - the site is based on specific content, so i have no desire to invest time in building the portal itself, and naturally i started looking into existing CMSs.

I have never worked with Drupal before and I was curious if it could do some specific things, sorry if these questions have been asked before. I have limited programming experience so my ability to customize code is pretty limited (although I am willing to try).

Basically I have a couple of websites sites (including a wiki). All of these sites use separate config.php files to manage usernames/passwords. Is there some tool to manage multiple config.php files so that each site has the same usernames and passwords so that users do not have to remember different passwords for different sites?

It would be nice to also have a web-based backend so that an admin could easily add/remove users through a browser instead of having to ftp to the site and manually change php files (a user would be created for each website along with specific permissions set in the config.php file). (note: the layout of each config.php is likely to be different for different sites).

The wiki software that I am currently using does not have a web based backend at all, so if there is a backend that I could easily attach to its config.php file? (if it is not possible to mange all of the sites together).

My OS is Linux. I installed httpd-2.2.6, MySQL-5.1.22.
I want to install all PHP 5 modules, which need by Drupal.
Is default collection of modules PHP 5 enough?
(./configure= ... keys.. ??)