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Hello,

Sorry newbie question, but I tried to unpack the drupal files using what I currently have available on my PC-- WinZip. It stated it cannot unzip the files (due to filetype) but I am able to view it, except none of the directories, etc remain intact. Is Drupal's file system all in one directory? If not, can someone provide instructions on how to open file contents correctly?

Thanks!

I 'know' Drupal since 3 days, so excuse me if my questions are naive or are addressed somewhere in a faq.

I've seen lots of sites, all oriented to what I'd call "text publishing".

Is it easy to publish database information in the classical way (set filters with a form, then output data in columns) ?

Could someone post links to sites, tutorials or other useful information ?

TIA

i'm wondering if this drupal will work with localhost?. jst purely localhost with out outting it in the webserver?.. my php.ini mail function is not setup. i'm asking you guys if this is okey with the drupal or will it need to have a wed server?.. thanks..

Hello. This looks like a great community and a great CMS!
I am volunteering for an organization that wants to be connecting site between various local peace organizations.

I am wondering if I could get some feedback to see if Drupal/CivicSpace might be the right fit for us.
The idea is to have a website that many local organizations could post events to. The three main components of the website would include a common event calendar, announcements/news and links to other organizations. The project will begin with a common calendar and can expand from there.

Some requirements for the event calendar:
-multiple organizations/individuals can add items to the calendar
-calendar items need to be reviewed by an editor before they are posted.
-calendar items should be categorized by organization
-calendar items should be able to span multiple dates

Potential ideas for the calendar:
-Events categorized by type
-RSS feed of events
-ability to feed a particular organization's calendar to their own website
-ability to feed the whole calendar to other websites
-a chronological list of upcoming events
-a mailing list to notify people of events

I recently switched to Drupal on my own website. I am wondering if someone could tell me if my ideas and requirements for our community calendar can be met with Drupal and modules. I have looked through the descriptions of modules, but can't tell if they will do what we need. It looks like CivicSpace is based on Drupal with a few different modules. I posted a similar question on the CivicSpace forum, but thougth I would tap the Drupal community to see if there were additional thoughts.

Hi All,

We would like to set up a forum (vbulletin) and blog site (drupal). Do we need to have two separate sites, or is the blog site part of the forum?

Thanks!

I'd been researching CMSs for a literary site that--for various reasons--needs to be up within the next several weeks. I've been holding off and waiting for 4.7 to come out until now, but I'm beginning to wonder if the beta might actually work for my needs until the final release is, well, released.

Essentially, all I absolutely require to launch is ability to post stories, some sort of taxonomy-based menu (so I suppose I'd be using the Categories module beta), and the Organic Groups functionality. So far I've got all of the above working on my test site.