General discussion

When I first installed Linux and started learning HTML, I started keeping notes on LaTeX in the form of question and answers, categorized by question type. Whenever I found useful Latex info, I'd add another question/answer to the files.

Looking at those pages now makes me cringe, but the content is still valuable to me. If anyone wants a good laugh, the URL is:

http://www.dirac.org/p/tex/

but the important point is this:

One of the really cool features of drupal is the taxonomy system.

One of the really lacking features of drupal is the lack of a advanced search feature which takes advantage of this taxonomy.

Most Drupal sites have a taxonomy like this:

Type
-Articles
-Reviews
-News

Brand
-Toyota
-Ford
-Chevy

Color
-Red
-Blue
-Green

Currently:

Hi Everyone:

For the past three years, CitizenSpeak has enabled grassroots organizations and individual activists to launch free MoveOn-like email campaigns across the US. Now CitizenSpeak needs your help. We’re seeking $1500 for a much needed systems upgrade to lower maintenance costs and support new services.

Please help support this project by making a Tax-Deductible donation of $100 or any amount that you can afford by going to http://tinyurl.com/dtnwj

I'm developing a site which has numerous roles for users. What I would really like to have is two separate sets of Profiles, each of which could be associated with a few different roles.

I can't help but think that the user roles and profiles could be better arranged like a taxonomy. You have your root vocabulary (let's call it the User Vocabulary), which Authenticated User is always a part of. Then you could add terms to that vocabulary to define roles (and sub-roles too, if needed). Then, when you create a set of profile questions, you select which term (role) in the User Vocabulary they apply to. Profile questions set to a specific term would apply to all sub-terms (sub-roles) in that term's tree.

I realise that this would require a massive rewrite to the Profile and User modules, but I think it would be well worth the effort. It makes the user role design consistent with the existing Drupal Taxonomy, which makes the whole thing easier to learn. Additionally it adds incredible robustness to the entire user system. This would make Drupal much more attractive to large-scale operations as well as maintain the simplicity that currently exists for smaller sites.

I am a fairly competant and experienced PHP programmer and would be willing to help out where I can with this. Unfortunately, I cannot spear-head the project myself because I'm too busy managing and developing

I'm trying to find a drop-down menu for Primary Links, sort of like the top bar on rpgwolfpack.com. How do I get this to work?

I've been working with Drupal for about two months. Quite frankly, it's amazing. I haven't had any troubles with it.

Problem is, I want to run VBulletin along with a Drupal site. If I can't get this to work, I may have to switch to Mambo, which annoys the hell out of me.