Is Drupal a viable solution for my website? Please review What is Drupal before posting.

I'm not sure if Drupal is right for my site or not? Please help! :)

By joepolk on

Thanks in advance to everyone who replies to this posting!

I am the webmaster for a fire department site. I currently maintain the site by hand which is way too rudimentary and creates a problem because I am the only one that can do anything.

That being said...I want to install and begin using a CMS. As you all know, there are TONS of CMS programs out there. I saw a link to Drupal via Evolt (www.evolt.org) so clicked on it to check it out.

What I want to know from all of you is -- is Drupal right for my site? Here are the facts:

1. Design -- I have purchased a pre-made template from a company to serve as the foundation for our new web site, It is a graphical layout only with no webpages or programming included.

2. Number of authors -- Ultimately, I'd like to make about 5-10 people authors on the site. Our fire department has a number of divisions and I'd like to give each division head the ability to maintain their own section of the web site. These folks aren't the most computer literate, and definitely not web literate -- so any content modification must have an easy to use WYSIWYG interface (if possible).

3. Plugins / Options -- I'd really like to be able to integrate a photo gallery (Gallery, Coppermine), some forums (phpBB, Invision) and other content. Will Drupal allow me to do that? If so, is it easy or a burden?

As I said at the begging, I appreciate any and all answers that anyone from these forums will provide.

How do i put this on my site?

By enemeth on

I really am new at this and i would like to add a forum to my site, can someone Tell me how? i have downloaded the file! What next?

drupal 4.6.0 on php 4.3.10?

By Chronistin on

I have a new project, and drupal would be perfect for it - provided I could use image functionality from 4.6.0. Unfortunately, the server still runs on php 4.3.10, and I have no control over this.

I tried to set up a test site, and it worked fine. Read a little further here on drupal org & learned that the new search module needs the newer php-version.

I could live without the search functionality. Are there other functions/modules that would have a problem with an older php-version?

thx,
Chronistin

64KB mysql default TEXT datatype

By maynard on

OK, so I'm considering drupal or scoop for a personal pet project. One problem that I have is that some of the written content I wish to present is large, well over 64KB in length, which would exceed the mysql default TEXT record length. While I realize that I could just change this to another value - 256KB for example - I'd still be limited to a size of that value. What if I needed more for certain projects and less for others? I'm caught in a bind of not having enough for some and wasting space for others.

CSS Layout & Validation

By jabi on

Looks great but have a few concerns:

  1. Is it possible to develop a layout that uses

    for positioning? I'm looking to break out of tables completely for layouts and only use them to present spreadsheet type data as per W3C recommendations.

  2. Using <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">, is there anything that is not fully compliant and would cause a page to fail validation?

    3. Thanks, from a hopefully new user.

Variables to display viewing user's username/email within articles?

By trafficx on

Is it possible to display the viewing user's username and email address inside an article, by using a variable such as {{UNAME}} and {{EMAIL}}? (In other words, I as viewing user should see my own username and email address displayed within the article body)

If yes, does this also work if the variables are used as content of a form tag?

e.g.
HTML Code:

<INPUT type=text name=username value="{{UNAME}}">

etc., so that this info can be passed on to an external site?

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