Before you start

Hello Drupalizers! ;)

My first question is can i use phpbb with drupal, as a module?

Where can I find the supported PHP version(s) for a given Drupal version?

A user is trying to upgrade from Drupal 4.3.1 to 4.4.2, and we are still running PHP 4.1.2 with security patches (we haven't made the jump from RPM-based admin to source on this box, and can't upgrade base distributions for an odd support reason).

I guess I put everything in the subject header. :-) "More questions" is not all that helpful when browsing the boards.



I host a site for role-playing gamers (www.kingdomrpg.com). I had to put it up in a hurry, so it's a mish-mosh of bits and pieces from here and there and still lacking lots that I want.



Drupal seems highly functional but, like I always say, there's nothing like free software to make a guy greedy. :-) Looking for insight into these issues:

I posted this in parts in a response in a different thread.

I'm hoping to find a good CMS solution that I can commit to for all my projects (members only non-profit site, niche community/news site, intranet, artist community, etc). Can someone give me a quick reply on how Drupal stacks up for each of these:

1) members only site: admins post stories/surveys, custom user data (company name, user, contact info, etc.) compiled in a directory...

2) snowboard.com type niche site (this is probably a bad example).

Alright guys, here's your chance to convince me to use Drupal for my project.

I am working on a website which hopes to flourish as a sports news website for a university. The site is www.o-state.com and is made up of fans, students and alums of Oklahoma State University. We have a few authors on the site that contribute articles as you can see on the current front page. We are working on a total redesign of the site and are trying to incorporate a Content Management System to this. What were looking to do is turn this into a SportsIllustrated.com for OSU. Our front page will have different "zones" that will show headlines or article excerpts based on certain criteria.

Basically what I'm needint to do is find a system that will select headlines matching certain criteria. For example here's a few of the quereies I would be making:

• Select the most recent story from the Headlines category and include it's excerpt.
• Select the next 10 stories in the Headlines category and show its Title, Sport Category (for displaying and incon), Author and Date
• Select the most current article from Author #1 and include it's exceprt.
• Select the most current article from Author #2 and include it's exceprt.

We'll also have sub-pages for different sports so I'll need to assign multiple categories to articles.

The articles will of course have perm-links with the whole article content, possibly paginated and including images. Commenting is not necesary for our setup as this will all be done in the forums (I plan on hacking the system so that when an article is submitted a new forum topic is created and linked to from the article).

I just got asked by a client to replace his existing drupal forums with phpbb. There doesn't have to be any interaction between the forums and the rest of the site, so I think it should be pretty easy.

My question before I go ahead with the install of phpbb is, are there any issues with installing phpbb and drupal in the same db? Is there a prefix to the tables in phpbb? (example: phpbb_variables instead of just variables). I just wanted to check to see if anyone had experiance with this stuff. I really don't want to mess up my drupal install.

Thanks!