Before you start

I am looking to see if Drupal is the right solution for me and my needs.

What do I have to do (or can Drupal handle) if data source is from an external and existing database, with existing user lists, searchable content (like product data) and even existing blog/forum entries? My start-up company is building multiple services such as iphone app, android app, mobile web, etc... off an existing database. And I am looking to see if Drupal will fill the role of running our main website.

Hi there,

Recently been checking our Drupal and I'm just wondering if it would be possible and how easy it would be to create the following:

I need a login system with 2 levels (Admin and User). There would be multiple admins/users.

The admins should be able to edit pretty much anything on the website.

The users should only be able to add new pages (just content, no styling, etc) to certain catagories (specified by an admin) and comment on certain page articles.

A comments section should be available for certain pages.

A forum (optional).

Hello. I am new here. I am a developer (Oracle forms ad reports mainly). I want to get involved in the developments for the drupal projects. Any advice from where to start?
Thanks

Hi Guys,

I'm completely new to Drupal (but come from a development background), so please forgive me if this is a dumb question -- I'm just in the early stages of playing around with the drupal that came with my web hosting.

I want to build a website that sells a digital product (something that is produced with a .net DLL I have already written, based on some user input). I want to be able to let people be able to pay either (1) each output from the DLL or (2) for x amount of time for unlimited usage.

Currently we have this home-brewed site that lets users (mostly nurses) to upload word document files and they automagically get converted to PDF files. Mostly these are instructions to others and procedures. We use mostly Windows (unfortunately) and we have Active Directory for authentication. It would be awesome if the users could log in with their Windows permissions.

Here are some things that we do that we would like to see done:

1. Have the Word documents be converted to PDFs automatically when a Word document gets uploaded.
2. We have a... somewhat messy directory structure. Ideally, we wouldn't have to move around any of the directories since this is how people in our organization have gotten used to doing things and want it to stay that way. Could Drupal just "accept" the current way of doing things from the perspective of the user?
3. We also have 2 environments. Staging and production. Users do their work on staging and push it to prod. Can Drupal have separate environments? What about moving data from one environment to another at the push of a button?
4. Can we have calendars? Currently we have 2 arcane systems (one web-app in Python and the other in classic ASP) that users use for scheduling and such. I hate both of them and want to simplify my life.