Before you start

I want to know, if there is a Distribution to build a website like commerce but without payment system, I want to give permission to add to users their own products. And customizable "add product" page that i can force to give some information boxes.
Is there a Distribution? or what are the best modules to build this kind of a page?
Thanks for answers in advance.
Sorry for bad English.

Hi,

I am involved in a project that wishes to post a wide arrange of products and allow users to review these products. I don't want to use drupal for the design, layout etc. I am only interested in using drupal for managing all of the user generated reviews. Is this integration possible? recommended? Could anyone please point me in the right direction for more information about the subject.

Thanks

Hi all, I'm still a newcomer to the world of Drupal, however I want to realize the following:
I would like to make a website for a community of product designers. The site would be used to insert and retrieve specific data and design experiences about energy efficiency. Is Drupal the correct tool to build a website with a complicated relational database behind?
Since it seems to be a promising platform, so assuming that it is possible: can someone give some instructions/keywords or tell where to look for the appropriate information?
Many thanks!

What I need in a site are two basic functions.

One is a news feed/front page that shows periodical news and update information. Things like new events, new versions, new maps, etc..

The second and most important thing is a download organizer/manager. What I need in this is something that will list downloads in a list format. The downloads will all mostly be custom maps for a game, so they will need to be able to attach a thumbnail (more than one would be nice) to the downloads.

Hello forum!

We're in the process of evaluating Drupal as a potential backend for native apps running on a mobile device.

We think we can use the following features from the CMS/CMF:
* account & permission management for our content authors
* a state-of-the-art web interface when managing the content

What we don't need from the CMS/CMF:
* the web pages a typical CMS/CMF provides for the anonymous end user :)

We would like to create an interface for our authors, which allows them to enter structured data (with several levels, not just one) and feed this data to our client devices as a JSON string. The structured data could look like this:

MusicEvent
  Title
  Start date
  End date
  Description
  Music-Bands [List]
     Name of Band
     Band description
     Band Members [List]
        Member Name
        Member Description  

You get the idea... :)

Obviously "MusicEvent" would be a content type. Title and start/end date would be custom fields. But when it comes to the list of bands playing, I don't see a way to do that in Drupal. The only lists I see in the fields are either string lists or number lists.

Is there way to build complex data structures in Drupal? Like having a content type X, which has a list of content type Y as a field?

Hi,

I have downloaded the Drush 5.7 Windows Installer from http://www.drush.org/drush_windows_installer and installed successfully.

But when I am opening the Drush command line interface and changing the path upto my drupal working directory, I am getting an error "'drush' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.". I am not able to use drush.

Please help me.