Before you start

I am trying to setup my site for multi-language support but cannot find the locale module that is referenced i18n.

I could have sworn to have seen it a few days ago. I am interested in setting up a couple of languages other then english for some friends.

Thanks for your help!

Cheers!
C

I did search but having bit the bullet, I am not sure how to install a contrib module. Is it the regular upload module, upload sql file, enable module routine or do I need to do anything different?

First things first: I have gone from being a hobby developer too actually getting paid to develop web sites. *hurray* (still just a part time job in addition to my dayjob though.)
The thing is that yesterday I convinced my boss that we should go for Drupal as our main platform for coming projects. The server administrator advised against this, and so did the boss of my boss. They where higly sceptical of using an opensource cms for critical comercial application. (They had a really bad experience with Typo3 earlier. The site got hacked, and went down for a long time.)

Dear All,

I am considering building a website with Drupal for stats and research info.

The information maybe in the form of reports, and I also need someway of users adding information into a, perhaps, a database.

For example, the area in question that will be covered will be a Local Authority in the UK i.e. a Borough of 27 wards. Within this someone might want to know how schools have performed in the last say, 5 years - there would be a query section then somesort of graphing function (say a line chart plotting the results over this five year period).

I was recently pointed to "freetagging" as the way of getting what I want done easily - but I am using Drupal 4.6 and the only reference I can find is this *patch* http://drupal.org/node/20936

Do I really have to apply this patch to get freetagging? or is it available as a module?

between 4.7beta6 and 4.7rc1 should run the update srcipt or simple replacement of the files ise enough ?

thanks for advises