hi,
as a web programmer i'm facing a dilemma - there are some things that i can write by myself but they will take me a lot of time, and the other hand - maybe drupal can do it for me, but then i waste a lot of time in searching how to do it.
so, in order to save me some time, i will just try to ask it here, and hope that someone will answer me.
im building a website and i havent decided yet if drupal is fit for my website needs.
it suppose to be a social networking website that will contain groups.
each group will contain: forum, file uploads, links sharing, calendar, list of group members.
after searching for the right module for this, all i found was "Organic Groups" which looks ok but, it still not what im looking for.
any idea how (and if) drupal can help me doing what im looking for.
thanx,
Yaniv
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organic groups is how groups are handled in drupal. If you want calendars, and the like investigate og addons like og_calendar. so on so forth. content types for Organic groups are expanded as every content type in drupal is. Through the use of contrib modules.
file sharing, see filefield.module which is an addon for cck.module.
searching for modules isn't that time consuming, testing them on a test site is beneficial. Both combined is far shorter than trying to build a php system like drupal (or any other) by hand.