**Website Q & A**

[Zarathustra]

I have to create a web portal where contributors can upload content in the form of PDF's & multimedia files. The uploaded files would normally be in bulk & not necessarily one by one.

The files would then be accessible to certain subscribers based on login credentials.

In addition, an e-mail needs to be sent out once or twice a day to the subscribers informing them of content added which is relevant to them with a link.

Little to no money is available for the development of this request.

Is there an CMS, preferably free, which could do all this?!? Does Joomla or WordPress have a template which could make this work?!? Or is there something else available?!?

It doesn't need to have a fancy front-end & probably will only require a username & password.

Any help or advice regarding this would be much appreciated!?!

 

[Dm7]

Sounds like something you could use (with a lot of heartache, pain and tears) Drupal for.

 

[macxsanity]

use drupal and some modules ......that will do the trick

 

[Zarathustra]

Any ideas which modules for Drupal could perform these functions...Busy looking now...

 

[|tera|]

One word: Concrete5

You will never look back.

 

[Zarathustra]

So, it seems that this is going to be solved using:

- Joomla - Free
- DocMan (http://www.joomlatools.eu/home) - $49
- AcyMailing (http://www.acyba.com/) - €55

I contacted the people from Concrete5, but they say this has to be a customised request & isn't possible without changes to their system.

No one from Drupal or WordPress has come back to me yet.

 

[|tera|]

I work with Concrete5 and the only issue in your requirements might be the emails that need to be sent to each specific person. That said, hope you get something that works.

 

[Zarathustra]

Thanks, I hope so too!?! Everyone always wants everything for as cheap as possible i.e. FREE...Drives me mental, something like this:

http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p2.html

 

[Odin Outline]

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[ChrisJ]

There is a great module for DotNetNuke called DocumentExchange which does everything you want. You can create folders with custom permissions and notifications are sent to only those with access. Bulk upload is available and zip's can be uploaded then extracted on the server. See http://www.bring2mind.net/DocumentExchange/Overview.aspx for more. It is $249 for the first year then $99 there after. We have 2 installations running with one having over 50000 files.

 

[iMonga]

Am also thinkin of creating a wedding invitations website with multiple templates, there are already few sites like this in SA. Just wondering if concrete5 is the best option for this? since my php is not that strong(am from the asp.net c# world)

 

[murraybiscuit]

Am also thinkin of creating a wedding invitations website with multiple templates, there are already few sites like this in SA. Just wondering if concrete5 is the best option for this? since my php is not that strong(am from the asp.net c# world)

i don't see the roi.

 

[murraybiscuit]

Thanks, I hope so too!?! Everyone always wants everything for as cheap as possible i.e. FREE...Drives me mental, something like this:

http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p2.html

i <3 27bslash6.

 

[murraybiscuit]

Any ideas which modules for Drupal could perform these functions...Busy looking now...

"drupal" won't get back to you, dries is kind of busy right now.
just use your regular imce & trigger modules with a wysiwyg.
you can set up upload limits and directory structures per user etc, and restrict filetypes.
it also offers the most granular user permissions at a module level as well.
drupal's content management isn't pretty, but it gives you the most flexibility for this kind of thing.

 

[iMonga]

murray as in return on investment? well the service wouldn't be free, i've done a couple of wedding invitation websites charging a couple of thousands to the couple. For the amount of work done thou that charge is not much, so the benefit of a template side is less work on my side & quicker delivery time for the couple.