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I have searched the site to find information on doing multilingual sites in Drupal, but wanted to be sure that my understanding was current.

Reading the old posts, it seems that there is a module (i18n) to allow multilingual sites, but it is not yet supported by the core and requires some alteration to the core code that has significant downsides in terms of compatibility or potential compatibility with other modules. It also seems to be riddled with hacks and workarounds to get around issues in the core code. It also seems that the core developers originally viewed multilingual capability as unnecessary if not outright annoying, but have now included an internationalization component in the upcoming 4.7 that will partially but not completely help address the architecture problems.

The bottom line seemed to be that if offering your site in more than one language is an important consideration, Drupal currently is a less than optimal solution, and it is not clear that the resources and, most importantly, core level commitment are in place to change that. It also seems that the issues are not the type that can be solved at the module development level, because they fundamentally involve core code issues that will not be resolved until the community of core developers agrees on some underlying architecture issues that must be dealt with first. Last but not least, it seems, reading between the lines, that the core developers are unlikely to spend the substantial time and effort necessary to address those issues because they view this as very hard to do and not all that important.

I am working on a project for a design class at school. I will do my best to sum it up in a few lines now, then I can get into questions regarding Drupals suitability for a project like this.

The project is called KorkBord. It is basically an organisational tool that provides the user with their own address book, bookmarks tool, calendar, to-do list and notes section. Everything BUT the notes sections is private and only accessible to the user that created it, but the notes are handled a little differently. The notes are effectively a permissions based wiki content type. The user creates a note and can either make it private (only they can see it), a group accessible note (user defines a group, they can view it) or a public note. That is basically all there is to it.

Now, I THINK Drupal is well suited to this type of thing.

1. Drupals handling of nodes is perfect for this type of application. Every piece of content in KordBord is effectively equal, it simply show different data.
2. With the CCK pretty much working for 4.7, the different node types and fields are not a problem to create and maintain. I finf flexinode a little clunky, and from what I have seen of CCK, it looks very nice.
3. The Views module can restrict the content to ONLY that that the user has created themeselves, making sure there is no breaches of privacy of content leaks.
4. The event module, as well as weblink (I think there is a new one now) and even the to-do modules perform MOST of this functionality already.

I installed Drupal on my local host. The database was not assigned a password. Drupal was showing error in line 31 of database.mysql.

So i took off the password parameter in the line 31.

Here is the new line

$connection = mysql_connect($url['host'], $url['user']) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db(substr($url['path'], 1), $connection) or die('unable to select database');

Drupal works fine.....

Is it ok, or I am doing something wrong?

Hi All,

Been trying to get my head around Drupal for the last couple of weeks, and am loving it. My site is currently on Xoops but am in full flight in trying to map out a plan of attack for migrating my site to Drupal. One of the first tasks I have is trying to match up where data in Xoops should go in my future Drupal environment while at the same time trying to ensure I maintain the same level (or better) of functionality. One thing I think Xoops does really well (from a UI perspective) is the notifications system, and I have not seen anything as good as it in any other CMS. So anyway, I have been looking at what Drupal modules I can use to fill the gap of the notifications system in Xoops at the same time as being able to have a basic newsletter functionality, with the major requirement that whatever I use must be highly portable (ideally operate entirely from within the Drupal environment) and must also be 100% platform independant (work on any OS, and any Webserver). I have been scouring the project pages and forum topics (such as the one below) for the past 3 days looking for answers.

A good topic on the subject;
http://drupal.org/node/18709

This is the list of modules I have come up with that appear to offer functionalty in the area I need, and a very brief comment of how usable I found them for my needs;

SimpleNews
http://drupal.org/project/simplenews

I would like to develop a portal type website that has primary content for all users such as forum, image gallery, FAQ, articles, etc. Members would be able to create their own subportals, which would have private forum areas, galleries, and content. I'd like a primary site member to be able to join more than one subportal. There may or may not be a fee for starting or joining a subportal. The subportals would be contained in the primary portal, ie I'm not looking for subportals that seem to be standing alone.

Hi there,

I have used Drupal for other projects and I am wondering how beautiful and clean looking I could make a photo gallery? I know that pretty much anything is possible with the right amount of skill. However, I am not skilled enough, nor have enough time, to create a module myself.

So lets here it - what are the nicest photo-galleries that you have seen with Drupal?

Rick
PS - I am really looking for something like one of these three sites: