General discussion

Hi all,

Actually I am in the process of choosing a development platform for my project.
The project is mainly a community site with various kind of tools, e.g. polling.
I am able to create the whole site start from stratch. However, I think drupal is a good choice to build on top, since I don't need to care about user roles, categories(node), template... etc.

When studying the module tutorial, I have many questions popup in my mind and I would like to know whether Drupal can handle the following tasks(also I want to mention that despite the customization of Drupal, I do NOT want to modify the core, I want to be able to upgrade easily in the future or apply security patch):

1. Is the Drupal admin itself is a module?
2. Is it possible to customize the Drupal admin? Without modifing the core?
3. I see moudle is a single file(xxx.module), can I break my module into multiple files? Is Drupal standard requires it(xxx.module) is a all-in-one file?
4. Can different moudle communicate together? e.g. The admin want to email(myemail.module) all members who choose "yes" in one of polling(mypolling.module) question. so myemail.module could invoke mypolling.module->getMembersWithYes???
5. If I need a flash on front end, can I write a module that provide webservice? And I need to have e.g. myaccounts_webservice.module(for login, change password, etc) and mypolling_webservice.module(for getting list of polls, etc). Or Drupal prefer all components in one single module files(e.g. webservices.module)?

I use flexinode to create my content page and when i click on the node page, the tabs View and Edit are always there. I have been looking all settings to see where i can turn it off. Is this possible at all?

I have used the demo version of Drupal and I really like the ROLES for each user.
My question is...

Can I set up Drupal to host more than one NPO department websites
eg... I am looking to use Drupal or other CMS to manage an Native Friendship Center web site.
But there are over 14 departments within the organization and I want them all to have thier own site running drupal, such as, employment.nativefriendship.ca and education.nativefriendship.ca

Here is an article on NewsForge that compares Mambo's and Drupal's ecommerce solutions.

I have troubles in installation, I looking forward to add different modules and features but still in the installation stage.

My question is: I can see the plain text Drupal default page without GUI, I click some links (eg create first account, admin section.....) it will just loop back to the plain default page. If I login, input name and password, then I got
Not Found
The requested URL http:// was not found on this server.

Sorry i have to post this topic here so that i can get quicker response.

I follow this post and with the helps of other i thought i got it working but i think it is not supposed to work that way. Here is the problem.

The post that i am talking about is here Create a theme for a specific flexinode type http://drupal.org/node/31646

i use the following: box_grey theme, flexinode, sections.module.

I want each section of my site to have different look so this is what i did for Products section for example.

Under box_grey theme, i created a folder "Products", copied and pasted page.tpl.php and node.tpl.php to this folder, i renamed node.tpl.php to node-flexinode-1.tpl.php. I turned on Products theme under theme setting.

Under Settings > Sections > I created Products section and select Products theme

Under Settings > Content > Content Types > i created new conent type and this would be flexinode-1 and i named it productscontent

Create conent > productscontent > and add this to Products Category

Anyhow, Products section is displayed correctly using Products theme page.tpl.php. It is however when i clicked the page, the page is displayed but it did not use node-flexinode-1.tpl.php under Products theme instead it uses node.tpl.php of box_grey theme.

I corrected the problem by copy and paste a copy of node-flexinode-1.tpl.php and place it under box_grey. the content page is correctly used node-flexinode-1.tpl.php under box_grey theme but it is embedded in page.tpl.php of box_grey theme.