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Hi,



Thought i will be wiser to post this question that way everyone can put together thier recommendations etc.



I am putting together an Intranet site for our company. I want to stay with open source as our budget is minimal.



These are the main features / functionality i required of it. Do you think Drupal will handle what i have planned?

What modules do you recommend etc

I have a site about starting you own forum, and I was wondering if these following features are available, either in core or as extra... with links please

- Websites Directory
- TopSites (possible)
- Downloads Area
- Articles area (so people can upload own articles)

Any help?

I'm looking for a simple node vote solution. Not comment voting, just a rating system for the node. It should also be able to promote or unpublish a node based on the votes accumulated. Additionally, the total number of votes accumulated so far for a node should be displayed.

Currently node moderation fits this perfectly. [It doesn't display the total votes for a node, but that should be hackable!] But I keep reading there are critical bugs in this. I haven't encountered any, but just curious what kind of bugs? Is this module stable enough?

Hello people.

I'm a PHP developer that works mostly on his own code but lately due to the size of work i have to overcome, i'm "forced" to jump into CMS sollutions as well. I've made a couple of joomla sites for customers and i can't say i'm completely satisfied with it. I'm about to move to another CMS and I thought about drupal since i've read good words on it.

The key features i'm looking for in a CMS sollution are:

* Tight integration with a forum or similar sollution (for example it would be great if i could have news posts also apear as forum posts in a specific thread)
* support for multilingual sites (including issues like translation of articles and maybe seperate template per language)
* User rights (it would be great if they could be customisable, i hated the primitive user rights system of joomla)
* Multiple levels hierarchy (it's very irritating in joomla that you can only have 2 levels of taxonomy)
* A templating system that's not a pain to use (joomla's templating system was amazing in simplicity)
* Support for heavy use of CSS (i hate using tables and spacer gifs for the layout)
* Reasonable security policy (i'ld like to stick to a stable branch if i want to)
* Ability to attach my own code to the CMS without everything getting messed up
* SEO features (if i'm correct wordpress manages to use links in the form of www.site.com/2006/06/26/my-article-title/ without using apache's mod rewrite)

Hello. I wonder if Drupal is good for a gaming website? Can you add modules like forums, reviews and such that gaming websites need?

Drupal has pretty much features out the box, but is it really for a gamingsite?

QT

Hi there!

I´m trying to install 4.7 with mysql 4.0. I´ve been reading lot´s of posts about the utf-8 topic and still not sure if theres any solution. Right now drupal is working but the database tables are corrupted. Some spanish characters are stored as Á°, Á% but displayed correctly throw drupal.

¿Is there any procedure for making Drupal work saving the characters correctly in mysql 4.0?

Thanks
rlbravo