I'm looking to customize Drupal to run my online advice column at www.frolic.org. The format is question and answer. Users submit questions and then I answer them weekly, and they are published as such weekly.
Right now I have an application that logs questions and answers seperately in a SQL database. In this way, I can answer commonly answered questions, and only publish new and different questions and answers.
However, I love the extensibility of Drupal. So, in a whole, I want to maintain my functionality but switch to Drupal. My needs are:
*Publishing new advice questions and answers when I answer them online weekly, but only new ones that are not repeats I'd designate them as new and unique). Others get an email response.
* The ability to get identifying email information and subscribe to newsletters and RSS, so the advice is auto-emailed to them if they so request on a weekly basis.
*Online archives of the advice column, queryable, and searchable.
Does Drupal have this functionality?
Thank you.
Christopher Feyrer
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some random answers
email is part of acount creation. the ability to generate and read RSS feeds is native. Atom is not at this time support, but you could go through feedster for it.
You could setup moderation on all submissions. Posible you could use forum moudle for question submissions. Or Flexinode for a custom form. There are some other form and survey modules as well.
Search is built in.
if you use blog posts, an archive module is part of it
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The webform module
The webform module could also be set up to get questions from site visitors. This would give you more flexibility in how you responded to each individual question.
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