By DarkTangent on

Hi,

I am really new at Drupal, i have heard that it is one of the best CMS on the internet so i came here.
I am making a site and have came across a problem, i want the following things to implement in drupal but can not find a way.

I sign up form where users can signup for ads.

These ads will be stored in a database.

Then this database is searched and information is displayed back when a user wants it.

I do not know how can one make a form to save in a database?

Then how should be this database be searched to show this information?

I have different pages on my site in which database is searched based on different entries.

I will be really grateful for the help

Regards

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marcvangend
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Hi DarkTangent, welcome to the Drupal community.

I really recommend reading some of the documentation in http://drupal.org/getting-started to get up to speed with Drupal terminology. The site recipes section is also a good source for beginning developers: http://drupal.org/handbook/site-recipes.

Drupal stores site content in the database as 'nodes'. You can define multiple node types to allow for different kinds of content. To add fields to the node form, you have to install the CCK module (http://drupal.org/project/cck).

To display the content to the user, you could use the built in Search module. You can also have a look at the Views module (http://drupal.org/project/views) which is more complicated, but offers a large number of options for displaying lists of content.

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DarkTangent commented

Thanks!

I will look into the recommended documentation and then tell you if some problem arises.

I would like to ask for some more information also.

I will also like to put a tabbed page also in a center of page, these tabs loads with the help of ajax without page refreshes.

Thanks in advance.

Regards

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marcvangend
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Primary language Dutch
Location Amsterdam
commented

About the tabs: I haven't used it myself, but I've read good things about the quicktabs module: http://drupal.org/project/quicktabs.

By the way, whenever you're looking for specific functionality (like tabs in this case) don't forget to search for modules that offer what you need. All Drupal modules are hosted here on drupal.org, but I highly recommend www.drupalmodules.com as a way to search for modules.