Drupal 6.x

I'm new to drupal and just downloaded the 6.0
I am curious if it the following is possible when a new user registers:

can I let the new user choose between 2 different accounts (with different profiles)
So when he chooses the first option he will only have to fill in his name and some other stuff, but when he is choosing the second option he will be asked for other information like address and phone number or something.
So I need to define 2 different forms (profiles) for 2 different user accounts.

Hi,

I'm rather confused about what has replaced _phptemplate_callback in Drupal 6. I'm in the midst of converting an old theme that I have from version 5. I've tried a few things and I can't seem to get it to work.

In the old version I had the following in template.php:

function phptemplate_aggregator_page_item($item) {
  static $last;
  $date = date('l, jS F Y', $item->timestamp);
  if ($date != $last) {
    $newdate = TRUE;
    $last = $date;
  } else {
    $newdate = FALSE;
  }
  $result = db_query('SELECT c.title, c.cid FROM {aggregator_category_item} ci LEFT JOIN {aggregator_category} c ON ci.cid = c.cid WHERE ci.iid = %d ORDER BY c.title', $item->iid);
  $categories = array();
  while ($category = db_fetch_object($result)) {
    $categories[] = l($category->title, 'aggregator/categories/'. $category->cid);
  }
  return _phptemplate_callback('aggregator_page_item', array('newdate' => $newdate, 'date' => $date, 'categories' => $categories, 'item' => $item));
}

And the following in aggregator_page_item.tpl.php:

I currently am using Wordpress and have reached the limits of its possibilities.

I need the following features for my website that I want to build:

Multiple Blogs
Static pages
User Forum that connects with blog
User pages (something like myspace)
Comparison shopping tool ( i dont know if one has been developed yet for drupal, but something that can tie in with users)
Podcasting
Video serving

Out-of-the box Wordpress is horrible for SEO purposes. Does Drupal have SEO improving plugins or hacks?

Great thanks everyone!

Hi,

Drupal menu system has nice advanced features. Why not integrate xmlrpc with menu ?

We need to create a menu item type XMLRPC_MENU_ITEM for example. The menu item will have the same features as other menu items. But the page callback will automatically call xmlrpc callback function. User can get a lot of xmlrpc servers then .. like q?node/users/12/xmlrpc/ will show that users' xmlrpc methods and allow others to call them .. I do not know if it is needed :-P .

May be it can reuse menu code !!

Hi folks --

I am planning an online publication, and am quite new to php. I had started off setting up the site using b2evolution but even this early in the test/learn/plan/prep phase I have already outgrown it. I needed a more complex taxonomy and, well, when it comes to taxonomy it seems that Drupal rocks.

QUESTION 1: DO I NEED MODULES FOR A SIMPLE BLOG?

While I wish, further down the road, to have a sophisticated site with "Sections" like a newspaper, a sort of recursive taxonomy, multiple authors, at first I just wish to bang out some blog entries. Does Drupal do this just by installing the core or do i need to install modules as well? I am not trying to be lazy by asking -- i've already spent hours just reading docs on this site and have found descriptions of what various modules do, but I still don't understand what "plain vanilla" core Drupal does out-of-the-box (as it were).

So, can I just install Drupal out of the box and start blogging? Also, would I be complicating my life by planning to add other modules later on, i.e., is it necessary or preferable to install them at the same time as Drupal?

QUESTION 2: install 5 or 6?

Hi,