Before you start

I currently have a drupal site [warpfiction.com] and was thinking about making each 'section' of the site appear to have a different layout to the others. This would mean I would need to be able to set a different theme for certain areas and probably have different block arrangements.

On top of that I would also like the option to have a splash style screen with options to go to each section as the default homepage.

Anyway, is Drupal a viable solution for this or would I need to look elsewhere?

The handbook install documentation at http://drupal.org/node/260 says:

The default configuration can be found in the 'sites/default/settings.php' file within your Drupal installation.

Yet when I just tried to install Drupal 4.5.2, there is no sites directory.

Hi -

I'm looking to build a site with most of the functionality of Craigslist, and am playing around with various CMS's. Drupal looks nice, but I'm wondering about a couple things:

Hi ,

Does anybody know where I can bet a binary package for PHP 4.** . www.sunfreeware.com has binary for PHP 5 but drupal does not support Php5.

Unless I can get PHP4 binary for Solaris I cannot use drupal and then I am thinking of switching over to mambo which supports PHP 5. I think I prefer Drupal over mambo from the discussions I have seen so far.

I prefer not to compile PHP 4.** from source unless its really easy.

Your help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Rakesh

Hello ---
I'm new to Drupal and trying to figure out which modules I should be using for a small site I'm throwing together. I need to be able to create some custom nodes, and have those nodes be linked to other custom nodes. Specifically, I need to have 'sites' that can have some number of 'offers', and have a way for users to search these offers and follow a link to the site node. Each offer belongs to only one site, but each site can have more than one offer (1:n, if I'm understanding the terminology).

Initially, I will be the only person adding 'sites' and 'offers', but eventually I'd like to have users able to do so, so having a relatively streamlined process would be nice (instead of a three-step create site, create offer, link the two). After a fair amount of searching, I found the flexinode module, which seems like it answers half of my problem (the part regarding how to create the custom nodes in the first place). But I'm still not sure which of the many ways I have found would be best to use to solve the node association problem.

A patch to flexinode called "field_nodeselect" (http://drupal.org/node/8468) seemed promising, but other comments seem to say it was incomplete and no longer supported (http://drupal.org/node/13127).

Clipper (http://drupal.org/node/10480) seems like it might do what I want, but I'm really not sure what it does. In particular, does the child node know which parent it belongs to, or does only the parent know the relationship?

I was wondering if some one could point me to some refrence material on xmlrpc. What it is? What all can it be used for? Esp. if it can be used to log in to a drupal site using Flash?

I have tried searching for it but the info is quiet scattered and very technical. :(

hpk

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