General discussion

I have been "lurking" around the Drupal site for a month or two now trying to decide if I should use Drupal for a company project. I'm sure others can relate when I say that I have no control over the database my company chooses to use. Our MS SQL Server is paid for and and is the backend for our entire system. It simply is not practical to change at this point. As the Web Administrator however, I can suggest and implement solutions for our Intranet, Extranet, etc.. I was excited to see that Drupal was compatible with MS SQL when I first stumbled upon it.

I'm trying to create menu item (I use phptempalte) by creating a page. Can this be done within the Drupal interface? The description in the Create Content -> Page tool leads me to believe that I should be able to ("If you just want to add a page with a link in the menu to your site, this would be the best choice.") but I haven't been able to get it work. All I can do is place/promote this "page" on the home page.

I don't mind diving into the code eventually but for now I would like to try to realize Drupal's stock functionality.

Hi,

I have installed the Search module, but although i've been through the permissions and anything else related I could find and am sure(ish) that i've clicked all the right buttons...... NO RESULTS! ;-)

Anyone help me work out why?

Many thx

Nick

Is it possible to change the score a node gets if it's created by a certain user?

For example, on our site we have four staffers, and many contributing users. But I'd like any blog entries created by staffers to automatically get a bonus point in the queue, so that there's more chance that those posts will be promoted to the front page (without cheating by ticking the Promote checkbox).

Anyone tried this?

I noticed that the user table has a field named data.

In this field the profile module serializes (and unserializes) optional extra fields.

I can't help wonder why the node table does not come out of the box with an unused field of type longtext (perhaps to be named data) to allow the persistance of additional fields via serialization.

I'm watching for drupal project for a couple of years for now. And (donnow why) I became curious how old are people who develop and use it?

Well… I’m 31.

What about you?