General discussion

Hi everyone,

I've been looking through the docs and cannot find anything relating to this. What we'd like to do is have many different sites controlled by one drupal config.

So, we would have

www.example.com
www.example2.com
www.example3.com

all controlled by one drupal install.

I was wondering if anyone had opinions on using Massmailer and Simplenews

For me...

Simplenews installed very easily and I think it's fairly intuitive for users to subscribe and manage which newsletters they would like to receive. I really like that simplenews newsletters are also nodes meaning of course that they are also part of the whole site, can be categorized, commented on, etc... I think it's a pretty great module.

Hi All

Does Drupal have a facility to provdide a marketplace in a Forum type apearance where forlks can add their own postings and read that of others?

Two questions
1) Can I use Drupal for this and are there any examples?

2) My current site is driven by a custom CMS written in PHP and mySQL. Will I be able to add drupal features to this or will I have to redo the whole site?

Thanks

Ben

I think the biggest problem facing most new users of Drupal is understanding exactly what they want out of categorization.

Nine times out of 10, people just want a simple navigation system, linked to a series of static pages. I'm sure that Drupal can do this, but with some effort. The problem with Drupal is that it is way more powerful than a simple static page delivering engine. Although this may be true, it is important for people to be able to start somewhere, and then realize somewhere down the road that they can expand their site to include the powerful features of Drupal with little effort.
Now, the biggest hang-up I can see with Drupal (I'm a very inexperienced Drupal user - a day and a half) is the characterization of categories. It looks to me like Drupal has been struggling with this for some time now. It would be nice to have a clear picture of what categorization can do.

I would like to show a example site that would demonstrate what I typically expect out of categories. I would like to start a conversation on what people expect to see on their sites, and how they describe them. It is not necessarily easy to do this. The example below is very terse and obviously could contain a LOT more functionality, but the fundamentals are there.

I don't ultimately know whether Drupal will be able to perform this way (easily). But if there is a way to categorize content, then more than likely there will be a way to organize a site such as "Joe's Online Coffee House".

I am lost guyzz

what do you do after reading this portion of the installation .
In addition, a single Drupal installation can host several
Drupal-powered sites, each with its own individual configuration.
If you don't need multiple Drupal sites, skip to the next section.

Additional site configurations are created in subdirectories within
the 'sites' directory. Each subdirectory must have a 'settings.php'
file which specifies the configuration settings. The easiest way to
create additional sites is to copy the 'default' directory and modify
the 'settings.php' file as appropriate. The new directory name is
constructed from the site's URL. The configuration for www.example.com
could be in 'sites/example.com/settings.php' (note that 'www.' should
be omitted if users can access your site at http://example.com/).

Sites do not each have to have a different domain. You can use
subdomains and subdirectories for Drupal sites also. For example,
example.com, sub.example.com, and sub.example.com/site3 can all be
defined as independent Drupal sites. The setup for a configuration
such as this would look like the following:

sites/default/settings.php
sites/example.com/settings.php
sites/sub.example.com/settings.php
sites/sub.example.com.site3/settings.php

When searching for a site configuration (for example

This is straight from drupal installation .But I can't get it what does one have to do to setting.php.

In addition, a single Drupal installation can host several
Drupal-powered sites, each with its own individual configuration.
If you don't need multiple Drupal sites, skip to the next section.