Converting to Drupal

Hi looking into using Drupal to power all the sites I develop. I had written my own CMS however it took me a few months to bring things up to scratch and I was spending more time tweaking the CMS than actually working on the sites! Anyway that's just a brief intro. Been trying to get my head round the 'drupal' way looks very promising so far.

Ok so this is what I want to do:

Hi All,

I'm a Drupal newbie who is in the midst of converting from Xoops. One module whose function I can't seem to replicate correctly is the Xoops Downloads module. Is this in the Drupal core or is there a Drupal module I should be using? I am looking to control who has access to files, based on the type of membership they have purchased.

Please go easy on me as I'm just starting out. A RTFM (or any other) pointer would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,

Spammy

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Hi,

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