General discussion

Hi,

The following tries to do two things at once:

• Find out how "good" Drupal is
• Adjust my expectations before I dig too deeply into any OSS CMS

(And advance apologies for the length)

So here we go:

A group of friends has decided that they want "a website" - the basic idea is to support the social network with an online medium.

Some poor sod (aka "me") has been tasked to make it happen - so that poor sod draws up some rough specs.

Hi ,
I am new to this drupal.I have a couple of questions about drupal.I am not even sure if this the correct group or not to post this type of questions .Please direct me to correct forum if this is not the right one.
My questions are
1) Is drupal extensible?.I mean can i add modules to it ?
2) Can I provide links to external sites from my web portal that is designed using
drupal?

Thanks

In drupal.org when you click on 'Documentation' and then go into one of the books, there is a nice table of contents at the left margin which expands to sub-levels. How is that done?

I'm using the xtemplate style and I've installed 'navtable' but it puts the TOC inline with the book document itself. Must be a style the drupal.org uses to accomplish that, or a separate module that I've not located. Thoughts?

gil

how can i set the content in the mainpage to display news stories only?

Can Drupal interface with Perl CGI scripts? We have written a fax targetting program that is based on Perl, and would like to integrate into Drupal.

Thanks.

As far as I currently understand how Drupal's cron system works, it allows for only one cronjob. Say someone needs a daily and an hourly cronjob, how to do this? And I mean two different cronjobs, 1 updates this and the other something completely different. Not the same jobs!

This seems immpossible with how Drupal currently immplements cronjobs. This is hackable, but basically I want to be sure there is not already an "official" way of doing this Drupal style.

Thank you.