Drupal 6.x

I've been interested in Drupal for quite a while now, and although I used it briefly on one of my sites a while back I haven't come back to it since. (The site used one of Drupal's built in themes.)

I have a few sites that could be Drupal powered but there's always something that stops me giving up the comfort blanket of using vBulletin as the back end (prob because I have used it for two years and know it really well).

Anyway, my main concerns about Drupal are:

1) Is it possible to style every single type of page to pretty much exactly how I want it? And how about sub categories - can they be given independant styles/designs too? For example, if I have a News index page, and then I have lower level index pages for say, health news, economy news, entertainment etc, can all these be easily given unique styles and layouts?

2) Server efficiency. I often hear people say that Drupal is not all that great for logged in users, my sites are based around the community - almost every page (apart from category index pages) will allow comments. How efficient is Drupal in this sense? What kind of server spec would I need to go for if the site was to serve around 2 million pages a month? (mostly text, few images, around 50% logged in users). I know that's not much to go on, but I just need some assurance that Drupal is not a resource hog..

Hello,

I wrote a function so I could quickly add nodes by code.
Basically it builds a $node object and then uses node_save().

Everything is good until I try to add values to cck fields for that node... no success.

What I need is:
I have a cck field called 'subtitle' which I want to get an automatic value (based on node's title) when
the user adds a new node.
(I tried looking at the macro engine and use something like $node['field_subtitle'][0]['value'] = "something" but no luck)

Here is the function I am currently using to add nodes (I extracted it from the blogapi.module):


function lt_add_node($title,$type,$content,$userid,$username) {

$url = $title;

// Add the node
$edit = array();
$edit['type'] = $type;
// get the node type defaults
$node_type_default = variable_get('node_options_'. $edit['type'], array('status', 'promote'));
$edit['uid'] = $userid;
$edit['name'] = $username;
$edit['promote'] = in_array('promote', $node_type_default);
$edit['comment'] = variable_get('comment_'. $edit['type'], 2);
$edit['revision'] = in_array('revision', $node_type_default);
$edit['format'] = FILTER_FORMAT_DEFAULT;
$edit['status'] = 1;
$edit['title'] = $title;
$edit['body'] = $content;

$edit['taxonomy'] = array('tags' => array(1 => 'Unsorted', 136 => ''));

i find it rather annyoing to have this search form per default in my user profil, as there is the search block allready, which let you assign it to a special theme position.

I read here (old drupal realeses), that you can change the template for the user profil - but why to have this per default?
http://drupal.org/node/45295

Cheers,
laura

does anybody know of a drupal 6 WYSIWYG editor?

thanks

Hi,
i just thought about this feature which i really miss in many forum software and for drupal user submitted content overall.

To have a user profil post summary.

Where you can easy keep track on your submitted posts, without the hazzle of searchign it everytime and such.

Ok maybe ther eis a module which gives you this, but i think this would extend the user functionality greatly :D

Cheers,
Laura

hello, i enabled the "Attached Images" Block from SITEBUILDING ---> BLOCKS but it shows not up, i have attached images.

the random Images Block works fine though, but i miss more custom settings, eg. specific image gallerie folder or usch as custom folder assigning.

Cheers,
Laura