Another example-driven demonstration would be for a community site like Chingri Maachh. Chingri Maachh has the following features:

• Multi-user blogs
• Discussion forums
• Events calendar
• Classifieds
• WYSIWYG content editor
• Google maps integration
• News feed aggregation
• User polls
• Site search
• Search engine submission

In order to enable these features, the following Drupal 5.1 core and contributed modules were installed (in addition to the defaults):

• CCK
  • Enables creation of new Drupal content types. e.g. I have created a type 'store' with name and address fields. For example: http://www.chingrimaachh.com.au/2007-apr-22-sydney#sydney-6
• Aggregator: core
  • Enables the aggregation of RSS news feeds displayed on front page
• Contact: core
  • Enables users to send emails via the site
• Forum: core
  • Discussion forum
• Poll: core
  • Conduct polls e.g. The current (April/May 2007) poll asks users for feedback regarding blog features
• Profile: core
  • Adds fields to be requested of users at registration
• Search: core
  • Site search
• Event
  • Creates a Drupal content type for adding events
• JsTools Tabs
  • Enables the tabs shown on the front and city pages: http://www.chingrimaachh.com.au/2007-apr-22-sydney#sydney-1
• GMap
  • Enables integration with Google maps (limited support for Australia).You can create a Drupal content type that is location-enabled (next module). These can be auto-plotted on a map using GMap. However, this is only supported for the US at the moment.
• Location
  • Adds location fields to Drupal content types
• Blogger
  • Provides lists of users with blogs
• Date API
  • Required for Event and Calendar modules
• Classified Ads
  • Enables classified ads
• IMCE
  • Enables users to upload and add images to their posts: http://www.chingrimaachh.com.au/blogs/neemie/2007-apr-30-drupal-demo-cre...
• Legal
  • Requests registering users agree with site's Policies/Terms and Conditions, and maintains versions
• Panels
  • UI/Layout enhancements
• Pathauto
  • Allows meaningful naming of URLs
• Thickbox
  • AJAX popup handling. Used for login popup.
• TinyMCE
  • WYSIWYG editor: http://www.chingrimaachh.com.au/blogs/neemie/2007-apr-30-drupal-demo-cre...
• CAPTCHA
  • Prevents spam by requiring users either enter the characters in an image, or the answer to a math question
• Buddylist
  • Allows members to create their own network
• Tagadelic
  • Diplays weighted content tags
• Calendar
  • Events calendar (http://chingrimaachh.com.au/event): http://www.chingrimaachh.com.au/blogs/neemie/2007-may-03-drupal-demo-cre...
• Views
  • Used in combination with CCK to provide store lists: http://www.chingrimaachh.com.au/2007-apr-22-sydney#sydney-6

Implementation/configuration details will be discussed in part 2.