Can Drupal do what I need??
wingnut144 - June 2, 2009 - 22:18
I have been looking for a CMS for our club website. I've been looking at Joomla, but thought I would ask my question here as well.
I need a site that can do the following (with add-in or standard)
Class calendar (with the ability to allow registered users to sign up for classes, and pay for them online)
Integration with an existing phpBB3 forum
Online store (not huge, but would be nice)
Store/Stream video files (again, not a huge deal, but would be very nice)
Allow subscriptions to and publish/send e-newsletters
If anyone has an opinion on this and can let me know if Drupal can handle all this, I would appreciate it. Also, if there is a cost for the add-ins (if they're needed) how much they are would be nice to know too.
Thanks!
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Drupal can handle this no problem-- and all the modules on drupal.org are GPL and free (as in beer).
for calendar: checkout the http://drupal.org/project/calendar and http://drupal.org/project/signup family of modules.
for phpbb see http://drupal.org/project/phpbbforum
for online store: see the http://drupal.org/project/ubercart or http://drupal.org/project/ecommerce modules
for video see http://drupal.org/project/swftools for video already in FLV format or http://drupal.org/project/flashvideo for video that needs to be converted.
for newsletters see the http://drupal.org/project/simpklenews module.
I originally came from using joomla, and I'm glad I made the switch (i'll never look back).
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