Before you start

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.

I'm looking for some ideas for converting my current site, deninet.com/tessflynn.net over to Drupal 4.7.

Presently, the site is running a homebrew CMS that I've written myself. The "main site" is basically a repository for news articles and random ideas. These are organized into categories within the CMS. Each user on the site can define a number of these categories, and post entries in each. Each entry is version controlled and comments follow with the version. In other words, if a new version of the entry is posted, it appears to have no comments. Comments can also be voted on, but this feature was never really used.

The site also hosts a number of user pages and subdomains that aren't related to the main site. These contain either personal pages, or project-central pages. Some of these are running Wordpress, others phpBB, others just base HTML. These pages have little to no content, so I'm not too worried about the conversion here.

What I would like to do is to bring all of these pages under Drupal and practically eliminate the need for the subdomains and user pages and other CMSs. I think Drupal can do this, although I'm still new to the system and am unsure of its capabilities. I would still like the ability to create "subsites" for individual projects that have their own default theme, but still draw upon the same module and user account database that's used for the main site.