Drupal 6.x

Drupal is a framework from which to create and display content.

All content in Drupal is saved as a NODE. A NODE is the most basic type of content, and nodes make up all the content on a Drupal site.

When you create a new peice of content, you are essentially filling up a node with that content.

When Drupal displays the content, all it is doing is accessing that Node, taking the data from that Node, and displaying it on the site. Nodes are the building blocks to a Drupal site.

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Okay, if someone can confirm that all the above is basically correct, then I will have understood the concept behind Drupal.

Now, let me wrap my mind around CCK:

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A NODE can be expanded by using CCK. The purpose of CCK is essentially to add more information to a NODE easily. This allows all the content on a website to easily be expanded in the future without having to associate something with all the previous articles of content, because with CCK, you simply add something to a NODE which is immediately available to all nodes.

If for example I wanted to always attach an image to a story (e.g. to represent that story for a slideshow), using CCK would allow me to add to all Nodes an image which then can be recognized by Drupal, and displayed on a Drupal site.

I'm posting this solution in advance for the benefit of others who might trip over this SimpleXML issue.

Drupal 6 automatically passes cache_save and cache_get arguments through PHP's serialize/unserialize functions.

If you parse an XML string using SimpleXML, it creates an object with invisible properties that won't show up if you do a print_r().

Hi All.

My website TeaXpress.com is being developed. My idea is to have an online teastore with a community where people can exchange ideas. Before I found Drupal, my plan was to integrate WordPress for blogging tea news and PHPbb for community forum. Would this be too much to maintain? It read that Drupal is very easy to maintain. (at the beginning, I didn't know Drupal has forum, but it obviously b/c I am using it:)) Now that I started ZenCart, but WordPress and PHPbb are not yet done. To all the experts out there, which would be the best choice

I have been working with Joomla to build small business & pesonal websites for the last 6 months or so. I like Joomla, but the I dont know If Joomla would be a good choice for building a large community. I want to be abe to offer customized profiles, galleries, groups and forums and more. I have noticed Drupal is highly talked about and has been used on some social network communities.

I'd like to know what you all think, and why. Joomla or Drupal?

As part of my work for the Google Highly Open Participation scheme, I have created a screencast on how to use the new Actions and Triggers feature in Drupal 6, and a companion handbook page. You can get the video and see the handbook page at http://drupal.org/node/199254. What do you think?

Hello! I'm shopping for a CMS that will allow me to provide software-as-a-service to multiple customers. Having a single code base is attractive for admin reasons obviously. My question is, can drupal's multi-site features be configured so different sites can be administrated by different people without visibility of each other? If this is possible (without a monumental effort) how scalable is this? If I end up with thousands of end users am I looking serious performance issues?