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I think this goes in this forum...

I know there is nothing developers and supporters loath more than a hacker (having been in the software industry) but hey this is open source so:
I have about eight entities that I want to maintain on Drupal. They are called "process" "practice" "domain" "role" etc... they mean something to my users ;-) I want the public to be able to contribute text for them and it be subject to comment etc. So the very best place for them is for each to be a node type.

i tried flexinode and decided not to use it. I'm nervous about the performance impact, i didn't need all the field types (this is basically a technical-book creation system - I mostly just capture a body of text), and I don't like that the node type is cryptic.

i tried using taxonomy. in fact the eight classes are of course in the taxonomy, but using pages for everything and tagging with terms just wasn't working for me. Too confusing to general-public-users to create content/page then select the right taxonomy type. I want create content to be obvious.

So I took the story.module, saved it as process.module, did a global change from story to process, tweeked the help text a bit and tried it. beautiful. if all you want is a basic entity then i'd recommend to anyone forget flexinode and just clone story.module. But that is not the point of my yarn....

then i got to thinking about eight extra modules and the overhead of that. and only two of the entities are actively contributed by the general community. the other six are parent classification hierarchy entities that i can add and they'll stay mostly static.

As I was browsing through this topic, hoping that it was going to answer itself or find an answer eventually.... but I didn't.

I read and skipped a few cause it was too much of nothing.

Simply put, is there a "newbie" section for so-called "silly newbie" questions? If so, where is it cause right about now, I need it.

Here are some of my issues if some "drupal expert" out there does not mind taking a look at.

I'm trying to create a page that lists categories for a topic (for example vbscript). I want users to be able to click on the categories and it take them to a page listing all the content in the that category. Something like this page
http://www.hotscripts.com/ASP/index.html

Anyone know of any WoW related themes for Drupal and/or WoW related websits that are using Drupal?

Thank you

Users at a community i've mantained had this requirement simple because they need to search for new references to their names inside nodes (forum nodes, for exemple).

search.module (4.7 beta) provindes an easy way to do this because of the parameter called: "$sort_parameters" at do_search. (i think it was introduced with the new advanced features...)

So i've made simple modifications at node.module to give him this feature.

Basicaly i've included 2 radio buttons so the advanced tab looks like:

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I'm building a site with Drupal and part of the site is going to require the admin to send out HTML emails to a group list (and growing).

Would PHPLIST be better for that? Or is there something that is completely native to Drupal where you can administer email addresses and send HTML emails?

Any guidance would be great.

-G