1st off, i was reading some things about the difference between v5 and v6, and judging by what it said i am more then likely going to be going with v5 (so i can have modules....) but one main question is, how easy will it be to upgrade to v6 once v5 is no longer supported?
2ndly i am working on a multi-media site for a local band, and alot of web developers that i know have recommended drupal, so now im in need of a few mods, i dont really know "what" mods i am looking for, but i do know what i want,
i know i will need some forum of submitting videos from sites like veoh / youtube for the bands concerts (if possible, i need subcategories i wish to have something like Title > Brandon Manitoba X-Fest 08, (then have some sub categories for songs, interviews, other bands, fan videos ect.....) and i need some form of submission where fan's can upload there video to youtube / veoh and submit the link....
photoalbum (although durpal being a CMS im sure it allready has this, but i also want some form of "submission" just like for the videos)
and this last question is, does durpal have some forum of "real time chat" or does durpal support a chat board like ChatAnGo.com?
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You probably want to go with
You probably want to go with Drupal 6 at this point being the newer stable version.
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Nevets is correct-- there's really no reason to start a new site in d5 anymore.
The first thing you need to decide is if you want to host the files locally or use an outside service. There's a few different modules to handle video locally, but these days I like http://drupal.org/project/swftools and, optionally, http://drupal.org/project/flashnode. These modules have the added advantage of also handling mp3s so if at some point you'd like to add podcasts or audio samples you will already have the capability to do so.
if you want to integrate with an outside service you'll probably want to check out the http://drupal.org/project/video_upload module. I haven't tried it yet, but it purports to allow uploading through your site to youtube.
The other solutions will require the user to go to the third party site first, upload the video, then go to your site and embed it. For this scenario you'll want to check out http://drupal.org/project/video_filter and http://drupal.org/project/emfield.
For chat i use http://drupal.org/project/phpfreechat.
For galleries-- there's a plethora of different options and all of them work somewhat differently. You'll probably have to browse the media category, pick out a couple of modules based on their descriptions, and take them for a test drive.
alright, thanks for the
alright, thanks for the speedy replys!, im going to hope this works out good =D