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Greetings,

I was wondering if there would be any particular issues with just running some code as an include, and using a few custom queries and functions to interact with Drupal tables.

I like to use modules, but I would prefer to use Drupal for permissions, publishing, and user management, and then just create my own queries and functionality without creating a module. I like views, and a lot of the modules, but some of them are too cumbersome for my purpose.

Any thoughts?

Hi! I need to display catalog of products in tree structure. This is same like files and directories in any file system. Directories in my case are groups of products and files are products themselves. No additional functionality is required. What's the best module to use?

Hi Community,

I'm trying to determine whether drupal is suitable for my next project. I understand what drupal does, and I'd like to know if it's possible to get my project running without too much development effort.

The project is a simple online application to help students practice speaking English. Features are:

1. Basic form: A collection of prerecorded questions for students to answer.
2. Questions are in a variety of topics, and are organized in 3 types.
3. Each question will have transcript text, audio recording, hideable hints, and other meta data.
4. For a topic of questions, the application is responsible for randomly choosing a few questions from the topic collection and present them in a specific order.(Though random, application should be able to record whether a certain question has been practiced, and use this information to decide further random results, the goal is to practice as much number of questions as possible, not to practice a single one many times)
5. Students may choose to browse limited free content without registration.
6. Students may enjoy the capability of tracking progress, making notes, marking difficulty, see more free content by registering.
7. Students may choose to view questions by certain criteria, such as their own difficulty rating, or notes.

Is it possible to hire a hosting and buy a domain to create a mail server with drupal?
Is there a manual or guide?
thanks in advance

Hi, I've made the prototype for my next store and I'm not sure if Drupal+Ubercart would be the best solution for it.

It's going to be a store with a lot of content marketing involved, so I'm incorporating a blog in the website.

Do you think Drupal would be the best solution for this? (see the prototype in the link below)
What other e-commerce platform would be good to accomplish it?

I have no experience in neither Drupal nor other E-commerce solutions, but I'm willing to learn anything (that's not a problem)

Hi all,

I'm considering starting a new website with Drupal. It's a community portal with articles, forum etc. + ecommerce. The project might later on need a lot of custom development and I'm looking to use a framework such as Symfony2 for that. There are 2 main questions that would help me understand if Drupal would be a good choice for the project: