Before you start

I recently redesigned this site:

http://www.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov/star/

It's already in PHP, mainly to take advantage of PHP includes, but has pages that would benefit greatly from databased management: lists of scientists' publications, phone directories, project lists, etc.

I thought this article would be useful for people/organizations trying to choose between Drupal and asp.net. I believe asp.net has better out-of-the-box functionality for what views is trying to do.

This article compares php with asp.net, and concludes php is preferable. The fact that the article is on oracle.com bodes well.

http://drupal.org/node/19674#comment-131097

http://www.drupalecommerce.com/node/969

I'm evaluating Drupal as a CMS option for a client and I have some question about Drupal's themes system. In looking over the themes that are available for download, I notice most of them use a Transitional DTD; furthermore there is a note in the main site's source that it does not validate.

Hello:

I'd like to know the following:

1. Can you install Drupal on a shared hosting plan account or does it need to be installed at the root of a server?

2. Do you need anything else outside of the basic installation requirements in order to install drupal with IIS?

3. I have read about the core installation of drupal. What else should you consider installing with the core installation in order to get a full blown web cms up and running?

Hi All,

I am planning to use Drupal 4.7.x for my site hosted with goDaddy. They provide PHP version 4.3.1 and PHP5 (I can use both or any one). Reading the requirements I found min requirements is PHP 4.3.3 - so should I move to PHP 5 - I read from other places that PHP5 and Drupal causes frequent problems.

Help in this regard is really appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Kalyan

This is the idea;

-any registered user can post content to the site
-Each content item comes with a poll that is displayed to members and/or guests. The poll asks wether the article is Advanced/Mediocre/Beginner in terms of the level of quality of the writing.
-The different levels of content items correspond to a drupal feature that allows them to be sorted. I was hoping this could somehow be done with the taxonomy module, eg if an article has 70% of it's votes for Advanced, it will be associated with the "advanced" vocabulary.