General discussion

The search module indexes the book navigation links and thus returns undesirable results.

For example, consider the following book structure:

RandomBook (parent)
child pages:
- Intro
- Interesting Topic
- Unrelated stuff

I've recently discovered CMS's such as Drupal and have read the documentations invovled with it.
I am having a hard time understanding how so many people are using it however. I am used to just programming straight up using PHP and a mySQL database. I would like to be convinced to use CMS's like Drupal, but i still can't see what CMS's offer that you can just program in PHP.
Can someone please explain to me what CMS's can do that you can do in PHP?

Any comments are appreciated.

Before I get destoyed for asking this... please let me preface my post by saying, THANK YOU to all of the hard working folks who make Drupal happen. I've been using Drupal for a couple years and I still find it to be one of the better CMS out there. I understand that this is open-source and that people are developing it in their spare time... so please don't think that I'm being a jerk when I say that upgrading Drupal sucks.

As new versions of Drupal are released, it's inevitable that bugs will present themeselves, and the security team has done a great job of explaining these vulnerabilities and educating the public regarding upgrading their site. My beef is how we upgrade:

1) Downloading new source (via the Web)
2) Removing directories (via FTP)
3) Uploading new directories (via FTP)

What a pain. IMHO there are far too many opportunities for mistakes. Not to mention if you maintain multiple sites with Drupal this can be quite time consuming. So I'll ask the following. Why can't we have an administrative function in the back-end system that checks the core and modules for the latest versions and peforms updates? I could be wrong but I think that Typo3 may have a feature similar to this... or was it Xaraya. Anyways, it doesn't matter. The fact is that updates are going to happen so why not make it easier for everyone? This isn't a feature that will benefit only a select few... it will benefit the entire community.

Hi All,

I am trying to create a form that has two drop down list boxes. Does any know if there is a way to create the form in drupal api that will let me re-load the items in dropdown list 2 based on the item selected in dropdownlist 1?
For example:
Drop Down List 1:
----------------------
List Title: Country
Items in the List:
USA
Canada

Drop Down List 2:
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List Title: State/Province
Items in the List:
Based on selection made in Drop Down List 1

Hi

Does anyone know how to re size the seach box? i looked at the page source and the current width is set to 15 characters, i need to make this smaller?

any ideas

thanks

hi.. how do I create a page that can only be seen after a user logs in?
I have 3 pages, the 2 pages are made public, for the last 1, after a user logs in, the menu for the page appears.
How can I do that?

Thanks