Before you start

We have a large database of members/customers who are currently assigned usernames and passwords based on the membership number that is assigned when they subscribe to our magazine. Our current web solution integrates directly with our database, albeit badly.

How easy is it likely to be to perform an automated account creation when new members call our national office? Ultimately, we want to restrict access only to paid members and not allow non-members access to other content.

Thoguhts? Suggestions?

Thanks loads!

I have tow different websites I am planning. One is a magazine of sorts for RPGs, while the other is a collection of stories. Both are on the same server but different domains. I am in the early stages of planning a webcomic as a third website.

I just finished downloading Drupal 4.6 but I was wondering before I did the install a few things.

1. If I want "registered users" to be able to cotiribute material, how do I set it up?

This is a reformulation/extension of my question
Can Drupal geotag its content?

I have discovered the existence of PostGIS extensions to PostGreSQL
(which Drupal can use, right?) and of the Carto Module

So the question in my other thread becomes "Can Drupal, using PostGreSQL,
PostGIS and the Carto Module, add to each node and site the functions/capabilities which I originally asked:

"This node is associated these coordinates"

Hi,

I have to build a new website. Initially I considered wordpress to make interaction
with vanilla blogs easier, then I realized that Drupal is better for the way I must/
want manage and categorize content.

The main reason to consider wordpress was... that all blogging software make
very easy to casual bloggers (= web surfers who do not know and do not want
to know php, html, mysql....) to trackback, pingback, discover new articles
through technoratic, pingomatic and similar, write about them and cross link them...

In a nutshell, I had the impression that I should use a blog tool not because it was
better for me as the publisher: only to make it much easier,
faster, more familiar for the non technical web user, to discover and above all
cross-reference (=advertise!) my own pages from their blogs:
you know, to provide all the trackback, pingback, permalink stuff/buttons etc...
that they already know from their own wordpress/ MT/whatever installation.

So the question is, if/how it is possible to make a Drupal Website look/act like
another blog from this point of view? (Remember, only to its visitors!!
Me, I don't mind hacking the source code, shell scripts or whatever it is to make
it happen). Which settings, plugins, whatever?

Also, can you provide URLs of drupal-powered websites which already do this,

Hello,

I have found these two pages:

http://drupal.org/node/43676
http://drupal.org/node/5253

but they don't seem to address exactly my problem.

I want to have a bilingual site where, besides having one interface
(menus, site map etc) for each language, any single article:

1) can have both an english and an italian version, or
2) full version in any of those languages, summary in the other
but, above all...

Hello,

One important thing I'd need for a new portal I have to build is Geotagging
support, that is support to categorize and search content based on location:

"This node is associated these coordinates"

"List all relevant nodes associated to places maximum 100 miles
from my home"

Basically, I'd like to know how to do with Drupal (and visit working examples)
everything mentioned here:

http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/node/8025/