By hepabolu on

I'm building a website for our society and I'm wondering what would be the best approach to the following situation:
- anonymous access to a large part of the content
- members of the society can register on the website and are allowed to view additional content and in the (near?) future maybe access to a forum
- some of these members are teachers. They will get access to a (additional?) forum and maybe some extra pages with contents specifically for them
- currently there is one other editor that helps put content on the website, but I do the majority of the work.

Registration is set to be reviewed/authorised by me only since we only allow society members to register.

Would the default Drupal roles/permissions with a node-access/content-access module be sufficient, even for future restricted forums? Or would it be wise to implement Organic Groups?

Thanks.

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kaakuu commented

Default Drupal roles/permissions are okay if everything is set by you or an Admin like you.
If you want the Teachers will have the ability to form their own Groups (as in a social network) OG is the best solution.

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hepabolu commented

Thanks for the advice.

I've been playing around with OG to see what pros and cons it has vs the default Drupal way. Right now I find OG very complicated to set up in a site that already works 'the default way'. I'm not really sure if I want to go ahead and use OG. On the other hand, I do plan to delegate some of the content maintenance to others, which might warrant OG.