Installing Drupal

Hello all,

I'm trying out Drupal right now and i'm looking at how flexible Drupal is with it's site design/layout. I would like to use Drupal for a large amount of very different sites (portals/personal sites/company sites). Can anyone give me some directions/tips on how to see how flexible Drupal really is ?

I've seen the concept of building your sites from blocks but how about the site hierarcy. How easy is it to connect pieces i've build in php into Drupal.

Lot of questions ;-)

Greetings,
Bart.

Hi,

can you give me some advice? I'm using 4.3.0 and I need to have nodes with one or more files attached to them, I've been browsing the projects and the forums and looks like the Filestore and the Attached_file modules are solutions, which one should I use?

I also need per node permissions, I've tried the groups module even though my user taxonomy is quite short :P is there a simpler way to achieve per node permissions?

Thanks a lot, Drupal rules! :D

I'm experimenting with setting up a drupal web site, and would like to understand the distinction between stories and forum topics, so I can understand which to recommend creating for typical posts.

Both stories and forum topics seem to be things that have a title, body, and comments hanging off them. In fact, it seems that forum topics are just stories that happen to be created inside a forum (as opposed to stories that are created on the front page).

I'm having an issue with drupal reordering my thumbs within a node without me wanting it to.

In my code for a story or book page, I have the following order of images:

--Here's what's entered in:
image numbers: 74 71 76 65 66 45 46 75 42 73 44 52 53 72 49 62 63 78 51
--But what shows up on the page:
image numbers: 42 62 44 45 46 49 51 52 53 63 65 66 71 72 73 74 75 76 78

Has anybody tried installing Drupal 4.3 on Win2K/PHP 4.2.2/MSSQL using the PEAR ADO module to access the DB rather than the mssql functions? My hosting provider disables the php_mssql.dll module and insists that PHP users use ADO COM objects to access databases. I think I've managed to tweak the code enough to get the object classes and functions all playing nicely, only the first time it calls the query function I get an ADODB error that the connection object
$this->connection won't support the Execute(); Method for running SQL queries because the connection object is closed.

Does anyone know if there is a way to promote a comment to the front page? I've got one on my site that's better than the parent node, and I'd like for more people to see it ...

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