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I'm trying to figure out what is the best way to configure my multisite setup for Drupal 5.1. Right now I've gone with using a single drupal code base, single database for all sites, and using a different table prefix for each site. I think I read somewhere the benefit of using this approach is upgrading Drupal is easier as it only has to upgrade one database. My question is, is that true? Based on the upgrade instructions, I would run the update.php script, but would that just upgrade the tables of the site I ran the upgrade.php script from?

Hi, I have a potentially odd need...

I play alot of pencil and paper rpg games and thought of an interesting idea I wanted to implement.
Wen you game, you usually have some 'house rules'; either expansions or corrections to what the game provides, along with other categories of stuff like new races, equipment, and such.

I wanted to make a system to centralize those types of things so other gaming groups can reuse them instead of having to scour message boards for the details. As I thought about it, it seemed a very shopping cart-ish design.

I was thinking, from the peruser's point of view, you would have a tree view of the material (so base of tree is your game system, next would have nodes like 'races','talents','equipment', etc, each one may be further sub-categorized). They would go thru to see what they like, 'add it to a cart', and keep going. Once they are all done, they would 'checkout' and it would generate an html/pdf based on their selections.

For the submitter, there would need to be ownership of each item so only they can edit it. I would want to have forms for different types of things (so adding a new race would have certain fields like 'race name','homeland', etc while equipment would have 'melee/ranged','damage',etc).

Hi,

I know I am missing something here, but I would really appreciate your help.
I am new to Drupal and I am trying to install it on my machine (Windows).

I have IIS5.0, PHP, MySQL installed and working well on my machine. And I created Drupal database on MySQL.

What I can't understand in the installation steps illustrated in "INSTALL.txt" provided with Drupal installtion, is where they mention that you should:

Hi,

I am new to Drupal. Going to install and use it here in next few days.

My question: I have a pre-existing MySQL database (directory of businesses) on another server -- I was planning on transferring the DB to another server (which has fresh install of Drupal) and have Drupal manage the Database contents... Is this something Drupal is setup to do?

In other words, can I point Drupal towards my database and then manage it with the drupal admin? Or, is this something I would have to script myself?

here is an edited email from the chief tech officer at our university (5k users...profs/students/departments)

***snip***

We would like to explore a cms solution to replace the W Drive
for faculty and students where they currently have personal web space.
(the W drive is configured such that http://people.university.edu/name pulls up the root...think it is a http fileshare off a windows system)

We need a security framework that allows 5000 individual users to
create, modify and publish documents in their own space - but they can
not modify or publish other people's documents.

Joomla "out of the box" does not offer this functionality - it's more
designed for a single department web site.

Does drupal (or other product that you might know of) offer the security
resolution we require for a campus deployment?

***snip***

a few more details...
he'd like individuals/departments to have limited (and differentially limited) administrative rights...the rights to manage publication queues within their respective zones, and absolute content/theme rights and full on automated ldap integration (once somebody is in the system as a prof, for example, they get a particular set of rights and an automatic university.edu/people/name space that pops up with nice helpful how to get started information.

I want to create a standard drupal install with the ability to create a page (not a story) that incorporates tables. Nothing major, just 2 columns, one column is going to call a picture (html) and the other just plain text. In looking to see what is available for tables, not much is mentioned, just wondering if it can be done.