Chapter 3. User Content: Contributions, Forums, and Blogs

We now have our Drupal installation ready to become a social networking site! One key element of social networking sites is user-generated content and that is what we will look at in this chapter. Drupal contains a number of core modules (modules which come with Drupal as opposed to modules written by others which we need to download and install), which allow our site to support user-generated content. In this chapter, you will learn the following:

We are also going to plan the types of user we are going to have on our site, and plan the roles and permissions they will have. Let's start by having a look at how these relate to our site.