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Any one get Drupal running under Xitami, or any reason why they couldn't?

Is there a module available to run a news archive like http://mapinc.org/drugnews/ ?

The minimum fields would have to be Title, Author, Date, Source, URL, and Content. As well as who it was posted by, and when it was last modified.

Does something like that exist for drupal yet?

howdy. i'm taking my first plunge into CMS. i've got a little site (www.whespta.org) on a fedora core 2 server that i administer. maintaining this has become a bit of a pain. i think a CMS will make it easier and will allow others to add new articles, announcements, etc. so i'm ready to learn drupal.

but first, i'd like to know what "prerequisites" (like in college) are necessary. do i have to be proficient at mysql? php? anything else? are there any books y'all use and would recommend? many thanks and wish me luck. ;)

I am putting together a small site for a friend who publishes a newsletter for villa owners. I've got the design and navigation worked out, but don't know if Drupal is customizable enough to do this?

The navigation looks like:

Home
Latest News
Our Newsletter
 - Past Issues
 - Subscribe
Resources
 - Tax issues
 - Tax calculator
 - Discount Tickets
 - Buying a Home

Some of the pages (such as the tax calculator) will contain PHP or Javascript content. Past issues will contain a list of files; latest news a listing of the latest items categorized as news (doh!).

Other pages in that menu will be for subscribers only, but she'd like the entry to stay in the menu and a 'You must subscribe to view this page' message be shown when a non-subscriber clicks on it.

This gives you a good idea of how the site should behave. Here's a few more specific questions from a quick play with Drupal:

1. Is there any way to show all posts to the 'News' category on one page (or rather, paginate it, so only X show per page)?

I am waiting for Drupal 4.5.0 to start playing with this CMS. I have download 4.4 version but decided to wait for 4.5.0 before putting time and effort into it. I would however like to understand if all the modules that are currenlty working for 4.4 will be working on 4.5 straight away or will they require some updates?

My worries is that once I will have downloaded 4.5.0 then it will take another few weeks/months before modules are available for it.

My web host is globat.com. I looked at the php info and the session.save_handler is set to "files". Will drupal still work? thanks