Dear All,
I have really good experience on MYSQL,PHP,JAVA(Architect),Oracle (DBA) ,FLEX and have good understanding on HTML( But never done any live project)
I am building a web site with 4 tabs ( Home,Q&A,Discussion,Read Blogs).
There are 100,000 users in the system
Home page displays 3 panels for Q&A,Discussion,Read Blogs :- displaying part of headings from 3 tabs
Q&A :- ask a question , people answers it and when the user is satisfied he just says that it is answered . Displays list of questions asked .
Discussion :-Smiliar to above ( but there is no answer concept)
Read Blogs :- registering 1000 blogs and whenever there is a topic on the blog reading its topic header and displaying . so list new headings.
I know this can be easily done , but need your guidance for
1) Can I use drupal framework for this?
2) What should I lean
3)Are there any in built components available?
Thanks for your help
Regards
Bujji
Comments
1) Yes you can use drupal for
1) Yes you can use drupal for this
2) Everyone learns differently, I would suggest installing drupal locally and diving in. That's how I learn :)
3) There are plenty of modules to do what you are looking for, here are just my initial thoughts without a module search (which I highly recommend):
For the panels, this can be done with blocks and views (both built into drupal). If you need tabs, you can look at tabbed block module.
Q&A can be done by creating a new content type and allowing comments. The content type should have a workflow state associated with it (you will need to use Drupal 6- as of right now workflow is not ready in drupal 7). The state can then close the post for commenting - not sure if a modules exists for this but you can likely create an action to do this with actions module or write your own PHP.
For discussions, I recommend Advanced Forum module.
Are the blogs internal (published within drupal)? or coming from RSS feeds of external sites? Regardless drupal can do both. Use the blog content type. Use taxonomy if you want to categorize the blog posts. If there's external sites, use Aggregation module.