Before you start

I am a php programmer but new to Drupal,
I want to build an e-shop (which I have never done before),

its going to be simple at first
basic categories, e-shop, cart, ability to add items, and a custom theme.
but I am not pressed by time

I think Drupal is the right tool more so than OSCommerce and the rest of the e-shop solutions since I can later on extend it to something more than just a shop (articles, votes, comments, reviews etc)

Hello there,

I new to Drupal and plan to rejoin a big student community site using Drupal for this. Actually if Drupal can't handle most of the things my self-written site does it won't be of any help for me because all the current users are used to the features my site has till now. So maybe you can tell me if the following things can be done by Drupal and also which modules and Drupal version would be the best for it.

I have already tried testing modules, searching the forum for answers and asking some things in the IRC but I hope this thread will be faster in collecting the needed information and actually I wasn't able to find fitting solutions for some of the problems on my own (especially nr. 2 & 5.)

1. multilanguage: navigation & content should be available in several languages and users should be able to switch between languages (navigation -> locale module, but how to manage different language versions of content synchronous to the language of the navigation etc.)

2. profile functions: my current site gives users the ability to add lists to their profile like e.x. jobs they have done. Each entry consists of additional information (e.x. company, place, country, type of work) and all these data should be searchable by the other users.
(the profile module seems to be much to weak to do this)

3. depending on users roles some groups should be able to access pages and fill in forms there. Other users should then be able to view and edit the collected data in tables again depending on their role.

I tried to answer my own questions because that's the best way to learn something new. Not being a technical person it's now time to pose the questions to you.

I've started a review site but wasn't happy with the results so I figured it's time to take the good results and start fresh. My goals is to provide a means for a visitor to write a review. I think it would be most useful if someone could drill down from "Write a Review" to "Choose a Category" to "Choose a Product" at which point they could then write a review about a particular product.

I think by doing this then someone else could search for reviews either by category or by particular products.

What would be the best way to accomplish this, if it's even possible?

I feel comfortable creatig my own content, whether it be a page, story, poll, etc.. I've installed the Categories module, the CCK module and the Views module although I wouldn't say I'm very comfortable with the abilities of any installed module.

Your advice is really needed, is this a viable method, is there another or a better way to organize?

So far, I'm thinking that I could use the CCK modules to create a node that would serve as the "review", in that review node I guess there would have to be a field, say "product_name". I could use the categories module to craete a "Products" container while the categories would be the various "product categories". But then how should the two be tied together?

Is it possible to create a mobile edition of a Drupal site that my mobile users will connect to http://mysitename.mobi and ergular users will connect to http://mysitename.com and I provide same content for both only difference being mobile edition is light weight and normal edition is full featured.

Any example of such and tips on how to achieve it would be kind of you all.

- Dollars5
Dollars 5 Solution

I am planning to setup a drupal based commerce site. The site will have a support forum - I know drupal has a forum module but I like the way phpBB forum works (organizing in posts, neatly seperated and many mods that are available). Is there a way that I can sue Drupal and phpBB together - that they will use the same theme.

Your suggestions are welcome.

- Dollars5
http://www.dollars5.com

I have a website with a 40MB database that gets a lot of traffic. It has its own dedicated server with a very good configuration.

I'm looking in converting it into Drupal but I'd like to know whether the E-Publish plugin can be customized in the front page. The website publishes daily news and wants its frontpage to contain news that belong to the same day (issue, I guess).

Any other mods you think might achieve this (except for E-Journal and/or E-Publish)?

Thanks a lot,

PD.