General discussion

Hi. I am working on a design for a new site. My questions are as follows:
(1) Will I be able to use permissions and logins to have a site with 2 faces - a public non-logged-in face with some limited forums/news and a second members-only-logged-in face, with lots of features?
(2) If the above works, then can I choose pieces of news and forums (e.g. a particular public topic) to appear on public side, but sourcing from that input on the members sire (like a preview of sorts)?

Hi Everybody !
I've a problem with tables on my main page. Some users like to use tables in their postings. When one of theese postings is shown on the main page , the table is not closed by the "end table tag" because you can't see the whole article. What can I do to fix such problems ?

I would love to have a front page similiar to the one that ecademy.com uses to list new posts in several categories of content. Anyone have a custom front page module that does something anywhere even close to this? I've searched through drupal.org and the best I've been able to come up with is to copy node.module and hack it to pieces... then put it in as the front page.

There's got to be a better way! Anyone??

Radi

This is a little bit of an academic topic, but in light of recent discussions about requirements and new user difficulties, I figured that I'd at least mention this:

User's Manual as a Requirements Specification

Ok, I am still a babe in the woods with Drupal but doing my best to get my head around it. I have a requirement that goes something like this:

1. User creates a node (using Flexinode for the time being but may have to go with a custom module based on story.module) and saves it.
2. User is no longer allowed to edit the node (I know what you are thinking but wait...the problem is coming) except for one field called "status".
3. User can only change the status field for a node they created.

I have looked at node.module, common.inc, and flexinode.module. I hate to do it but this requirement is immediate so I think I am gonna have to ask one of my developers to start hacking but before I do, I am hoping for some feedback. I looked into node.module and could add in the code below to the node_link such that the link runs a script which updates the status in the db for the current node:

    if ($user->uid == $node->uid) {
      $links[] = l(t('Change Status to Complete'), "changestatus.php?nid=" . $node->id, array('title' => t('Mark this file as complete.')));
    }

I am sure there are many drawbacks to the idea above and I want to keep the hacks to an absolute minium. Any suggestions on how to approach this particular requirements?



Cheers,
Andy

I've created a new node type for maintaining a list of projects for a portfolio site. I'd like to categorize each project by various criteria, so I'm creating various vocabularies specifically for that node type. For example:

Timeline
-- > 1 month
-- 1 month
-- 2 months
...

Budget
-- Pro Bono
-- < $1,000
-- $1,000 - $10,000
...

Languages
-- C
-- C++
-- Java

Relational Databases
-- Oracle 8i
-- DB2
...