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Hi everyone, I am trying to make a site that helps other users of a game find a guild. The site will need to have strong searching functionality...i.e search by classes need, mimimum level required. etc. How difficult is something like that to do in Drupal. Looking at Drupal or Joomla. Can someone give me ideas on which is the better way to go. Thanks in advance.

Hi all.

I am in the planning stages of a new Drupal Site for a magazine. I will either use Drupal 6 when it is released (but get everything ready before hand), or use Drupal 5 and then upgrade as soon as Drupal 6 is released. - Some forum features of 6.x are sort of essential to my plans.

What I want is to have each magazine issue as a book, with the articles as book pages. Easy so far.

Two things that I want to also do is:

Hello i have to prepare a drupal to run 200 blog, and i think i 'll have around 4000 readers to all the blogs,

This drupal will work as a teaching tool, and will be running in a college.

I'd like to know what kind of hardware I'll need to run drupal properly.

Thanks

Oskar Calvo.

Hi,

I am new to Drupal and use another CMS which is Perl based. I really want to find something that is PHP and has some of the functionality I require.

I need to create a page(s) to display Downloadable PDF's and Word Doc's with associated and searchable Meta Data. The files shoudl only be downloadabl in some sections by Users with the appropriate privelages once logged in.

Is this the kind of thing that Drupal is capabale of?

Even if a user guesses the path to the PDF directory I want to dis-allow the PDF's to non-logged in users.

Thanks in advance,

I'm at a bit of a loss with a project I want to get started. Basically I am looking to create a "file gallery" that users can contribute to. I want a user to be able to upload a file that is not a photo, video etc. Most likely it would be a .zip or some other package. I suppose the most similar thing I can compare it to is the way a theme gallery works.

Essentially the user can upload a package, a preview image and a title. That's it, real simple. I am just completely lost on the file upload part. Is there a way to store these in an organized gallery manner?

Well, I'm looking into setting up a writer's community site for aspiring writers to publish their stories and get feedback. I've spent the last day or so installing Joomla only to find I don't really like the backend. I felt more like i was adding content to an already built site than building my own. I've now moved towards Drupal.

Its definitely more impressive on control. I just worry about features because I am not a scripter myself (I'm good with html and some php, but not at this complex of a level), so unless I want to throw cash into the site, its going to be built mostly on predesigned mods.

I think a multi-tier power structure would be best. Admin first, of course, then Editors who moderate content (mostly just checking for spam, or inappropriate things), then users. Is this possible with Drupal?

i also would like author's content to be viewable from their profile. Everything they write listed in one place. I also see that drupal has a book feature...can books be set to collaborative or noncollaborative or just collaborative?

I'm also looking into the following features:

-Personal Web Space for all users to Upload files
-Personal, Private, Journals for users

I'm also not sure of the forum on drupal...it seems very barebones...has there been an attempt to intergrate drupal with phpbb3, smf, or another more full featured forum board?