Hello.
I received a request from one of my customer to make 2 projects for him. I am a Joomla user but i have to say that i want to switch to something more powerful.
Yesterday i spent a few hours reading and admiring Drupal documentations and showcase. It's seems astonishing. For a person like me with PHP knowledge at the level of echo('hello word'); Drupal seems to be the perfect choice for applications that doesn't fit with Joomla.
Now, to return to the reason why I'm posting here. I would like to know if it is really possible to solve this requests with Drupal.
1st request: a website for a community of users. many group of users like: advocate, medics, engineers, etc.(consider all the professions available). group should have one or more group leaders. users cand define their profile and can select what info are public and what aren't. users can interact with each other by pm and email. search engine by professions and localization. when a regular user or a visitor browse for a professional he should see only 5 people from the category he is browsing. If he wants to be a member or contact someone near his location he has to contact the leader of the group.
2nd request: a site like alibaba.com. with 4-5 membership types.
Thank you.
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First, let me state up front, that it's unlikely that any type of advanced custom site can be built with zero custom code, regardless of the cms. It's just not a realistic expectation. That said however, I believe drupal can get you further without coding than any other cms out there. Of course, you're asking on drupal.org ;-)
As for your requests, the first should be doable with little or code. You'll want to checkout the cck, content_profile, views, og, and privatemsg, modules. Can't help with the second, I'm not familiar with that site.
thank you. i will leave a
thank you. i will leave a reply here and tell how i solve it, because i have to solve it.
Alibaba.com is a huge portal for China and Hong Kong market (and not only). there are 2 categories of users: sellers and buyers. A seller or a buyer might be silver gold or bronze member and has benefits and restrictions according to ... the membership type.
Short answer, yes, you can do
Short answer, yes, you can do everything you mention with Drupal plus contrib modules. I'll even go on limb and say you can get it done without custom code. If you want to customize it to be exactly how you want it, you might need some custom code. But if you content yourself with the defaults, you can do this with no custom code.
I succeeded ... in a way.
I succeeded ... in a way. Thank you all for tips.
It's quite hard this Drupal but more powerful then my old Joomla :).