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Hi all,

I was hoping you could give me some advice on Drupal... I have a project to do a publishing site that has a database of company profiles, with brands, products and advertisements linked to them.

I was hoping to do this by linking content types together using the Node Reference module and displaying them via views. That should get me the basic relationships down.. However this is my first time using Drupal so I am not sure on a few things...

Any help is greatly appreciated..

1. Is there a way I can track click throughs on my advertisements? What would be the best module to handle banner advertisements? Granted the click throughs would then need to be linked to the company, So that I can generate reports per company. I also need to track when they were clicked so I can filter by time I.e. clicks over the last week.

2. What is the best version of Drupal to be running at this point? Drupal doesn't seem to have a lot of 6's modules supported. I.e. the advertisement module. And a lot of these unsupported modules I need for my functionality.. Is it worth using 6 still?

3. Is there an email newsletter module that can display views as the content?

4. Is there anyway to create an interface where an admin can login and 'approve' web form submissions (which would then mark them as accepted and then perhaps send an email to the applicant?)?

Hello,

Drupal is a new product for me and I am just beginning to look at it from a solutions perspective. I have a client who is in need of a fairly basic customized workflow system which can be used. I am keen to find out from someone more skilled aware of the capabilities that this will be possible with Drupal before gettting too bogged down in the features available.

Hi guys,

I know my way around Drupal, I love it, and I have built sites with it and I continue to do so. For my new company I want to use Drupal. However, since I want to push certain boundaries I am wondering what will be the best option for me: Drupal or custom-code.

There are things I want to do I am not sure how intricate they will be with Drupal. For instance:

I am new to Drupal & it has been recommended to me for making a travel website.
Now this website which I am about to make has multiple booking engines, plus I need to create a custom booking engine & integrate it with payment gateway.
Also there are suppliers, agents & affliates management to be taken care of with Google Map integration, invoicing & vouchers & custom reporting tools.

I need to understand how can I go about with it in Drupal?
Please advice.

Thanks

I am developing a website for a non governmntal organization that wishes to utilize the power of drupal for thier needs. I am seeing several distributions and I am thinking maybe someone could point me in a right direction in terms of a solution that best fits the company's needs. The organization wants something similar to what is found at www.iied.org, I know they use drupal for thier site as well. I saw the open aid distribution and was wondering if that might be the cloest thing to what iied has.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for advice/opinions on the best way to achieve the following :