By grfa02 on

My company produces technology and business oriented events, tv show, and radio show. They want to enhance the functionality of their website in a way that integrates all aspects of our business at the same time incorporating a community aspect to it, so I suggested using Drupal to them. I am not a programmer, so before we decide on using Drupal, I want to see if anyone can tell me if Drupal can achieve the following:

- Display Newsfeeds from other websites
- Display updates from different sections of the website on the main page (e.g. newest events, tv show, radio show, forum posts, etc)
- Have a membership system in which members can post articles onto the site
- Manage multiple databases that can communicate with each other (e.g. members in our database can enter our radio contests and sign up for our events through the website)
- Support podcasts, vodcasts
- Maybe some ecommerce capability for our events (e.g. attendees buying tickets online)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Kevin

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ciberwing commented

Short answer: YES

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dnewkerk commented

Long answer: absolutely! :)

-- David
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grfa02 commented

Thank you for your replies! One more function I am looking for that I didn't mention above: For our events, will I be able to have a database of all our exhibitors (with fields: company name, website, logo, company description, etc.), which we can easily add/edit/delete entries through a form in the back end. These entries, once added, will be automatically populated to a page to display all our exhibitors and if there are too many exhibitors it will automatically separate the entries to 10 entries per page and these new pages will also be automatically generated. Is this possible with Drupal as well?

Also, could someone also give me a rough estimate of how much it will cost / how much time it will take for an experienced drupal programmer to tackle such a project?

Thanks!

Kevin

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dnewkerk commented

Yep that is definitely possible. Your "Exhibitors" would be a CCK type, with any fields you want to include added by CCK. You can edit any Exhibitor node at any time just like any other content of the site.

For displaying the Exhibitors, you would use Views module, which handles paging of the results.

-- David
absolutecross.com
[new guide/lesson in progress: Creating a CCK and Views powered Drupal site - feedback welcome]