General discussion

Is there a way to protect sttatic pages with the user module???

Reason:
I have an extensive site with a lot of static pages but I would like to use Drupal as the main page for the sotry capability and be able to use the User Module in order to protect the rest of my site. Is this possible??

Would it be difficult for the feature to be implemented???

While Drupal is obviously robust, it would be nice to see user friendly urls.

I put together a simple block which I'm finding extremely useful and I think others might benefit as well. As opposed to having an agreggate news feed block based on a "bundle" I wanted one filtered on keywords:

 $result = db_query("SELECT * FROM item WHERE 
      lower(title) like '%microsoft%'
   or lower(title) like '%windows%'
   or lower(attributes) like '%microsoft%'
   ORDER BY iid DESC LIMIT ". variable_get("import_block_limit", 15));

  while ($item = db_fetch_object($result)) {
    $output .= import_format_item($item);
  }

  return $output;

This way if I have a feed marked as "Microsoft" in the attributes or a related word appears in the title of any feed it's in the block. I'm using this at MS Versus. Hope others find this useful.

Is there any way to determine which module has called a block? Specifically, I'd like to make a change such that certain blocks, when called, get a different title background color. The only way I can think of doing this is testing who's calling the block, then use a condition statement to change a CSS class (or similar).

May I suggest our developpers to have a detailed look at www.plone.org for very nice suggestions for Drupal v5, there is also a lot of good ideas for the interface, especially the help given during form input.

I'm working on a plone theme for drupal see in the theme forum.

Eric.

Has anyone considered extending Drupal so that it could support Multi-Level menus? I'm finding that as I add more and more functionality to a site ... a good thing! ... the more cluttered the menu bar becomes, and harder to manage navigating for users.

How much work would it be to extend Drupal so that all modules had a configurable "menu level"? I'm not much of a programmer, but here are a couple of thoughts:

A simple Admin option that the admin could define "top level" (eg level 1), "secondary level" (level 2), "tertiary level" (level 3), etc... Then the menu bar would get built such that a CSS menu pops down or to the right, or to the left (depending on it's location) so that second/third (etc...) tier level menus are then exposed.

Another thought might be to have each module register itself within a Taxonomy vocabulary, then some function allows the admin to juggle the level settings of that?

I think this would go a long long ways to improving usability, ease of navigation, site cohesion, and better layout/design. Any thoughts?

I'm willing to do some of the work on this - but I'm not mucy of a programmer - so would need a lot of pointers or help.

v/r
Shane