General discussion

Comparison of some PHP/MySQL CMS (e107, Drupal, Xoops, Mambo, Postnuke, Xaraya). I think it interesting results.

"Can your PHP/MySQL CMS handle a Slashdotting?" - http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=11782

I don't understand what the expiration threshold option means in the queue module options.

Anyone?

Hi

I'm an otherwise very satisfied and happy Drupal user, with an up-to-date CVS install that I'll put into production sometime in the next few weeks on our company intranet. For me the following is a nice-to-have but for others it could I guess be a show-stopper - please can code be tested on postgreSQL before release? There are currently quite a few bits (in stable, not just in cvs) that break when used with pg. Not least of these is update.php.

FWIW I've seen some discussion of late (not here) arguing that mySQL is easier to use and PG isn't worth the effort and will / should go away and therefore developers shouldn't bother continuing to support it. I hope that doesn't happen here. People like me, working for a commercial organisation, have to minimise the number of different operating systems, and database server systems in use, to reduce the time (cost) involved in supporting, and learning them. Because some of our applications, as you would expect in a commercial environment, require industrial-strength database functionality and scale, we have to use PG. Therefore we want (need!) to use PG for *all* our open-source and bespoke applications (and we're now seeing PG compatibility in some commercially available apps we're evaluating).

IMHO the number of MySQL and PG users or installations is not alone a good measure of their relative importance. Imagine the effect on the status of Drupal of just one (most likely PG) installation by a major corporation.

I seem to recall there being a contributed module that allowed you to import nodes taken from an RSS feed and incorporate selected node into your own front page. Am I wrong? If so, has anyone out there tried to tackle this problem?

I'm a newbie still trying to get my head around drupal. I need to be using tools for building community in my college classrooms. Classes come and go, and I have in mind an intranet to simulate a learning organization. Students will be posting blogs/jounals, weekly essays based on readings (forums), sustaining a number of dialogs for organizational improvement (maybe stories for moderation?), etc. I need to keep a good pulse on amount of use of the tools by my students, and I need to set up and take down posts at the end of the quarter. I think there are some possibilities in drupal for me, though I'm not quick to get my head around it.

I like the multiple blogs.. students can do journals, visit one another, make comments. I wish they could moderate/vote in the blog area (can they?)... and what triggers migration of a student's blog/journal for the week from the 'blog page' to a page which comes up based on links from their 'member' page? I think I could use those member pages to step around to track a student's involvement.. though with 50-60 students at a time, this will be a chore!

More importantly, I'm envisioning that in 10 weeks there will be a ton of posts, blogs, comments, nodes for pages -- some of which I'll want to archive (nodes relating to shared books and pages), much I'll want to throw out (stories, blogs and comments). I can't see a way of deleting posts from the drupal which won't take me about as much time as it takes students to post stuff! Am I missing something? i can see to go to comments, click to view, click to delete one at a time, click to confirm.. then I'm lost with a page which says it's been done.. click back space about 3 times to get to a listing of all comments including the deleted one.. refresh it, go to deleting the second page. And I suppose once I've worked through all of that, I'll need to see what I can do in the administer/content/nodes page where there will also be a whale of a lot of individual node deletion? Boy I hope I'm missing someing simple.. like maybe if I delete a user, their comments get vaporized? ;-)

I have downloaded drupal but I want to put it to my website: www.underpulse.741.com Please help.