Before you start

So, as a newbie who is wanting to use an open-source tool(s) for website development, why do I need to ... er what are the reasons for installing Drupal locally when my hosting site - greengeeks - says I can install Drupal on their webspace?

Thank you

I tried to get a copy of the Drupal core from the git repo by running the following command;

git clone --branch 7.9 http://git.drupal.org/project/drupal.git

response was;

Hello all,

I'm in the process of designing a new website and I would like your comments and bits of advice on some topics. The purpose of the website is to provide paid access to a certain set of applications (web-based, not yet developped, which gives us some freedom as to our choices). Moreover, we would like to post some news, give access to forums and ideally build a small community of people sharing a common profession.

Because of the latter requirements, I decided to go with Drupal (I'm familiar with it, although mainly having build small, simple, websites) which with all of its modules would most certainly cover all these needs. However, regarding the applications part, I was not keen on integrating them directly into drupal (as modules). The reasoning here is that I do not know how this project will go in the future, and if it goes better than planned, drupal might not remain the best option for my applications. Moreover, we might end up building something much more powerfull which will require more ressources (again only speaking only for the applications, all CMS-related tasks will still rely on drupal), maybe taking leverage of cloud-computing (EC2, S3, or similar)... Anyway, long story short, I want to make something that can be portable without recoding everything (using drupal forms is a no-go for instance), should we decide to expand.

Hi all.

The following is an example about what I want to do using Content Types, Taxonomy and the new Relation module. I would appreciate your help in creating the categorization since I´m not sure about how to produce what I want.

Here is how I see it:

I have the following Content Types that need to form some kind of hierarchy.

1. Person
2. Corporation
- Administration
3. Projects
4. Government
- Ministries
-Committees
5. News

The government changes every 4 years so I have multiple government nodes and therefore many ministeries subnodes.

A person can be part of a ministry, a CEO of a corporation and belong to a political party (taxonomy perhaps).

A corporation starts a project and a news story is created by a reporter (person) that implicates a minister (person part of a ministry) and one of the director (person) of the corporation.

The new relation module is something that I want to use in this project and here are some of the relations might be created:

The father of
The daughter of
A longtime friend with
Money transfer
Shareholder in

What will be a content type, what will be a taxonomy and how would the hierarchy look?

Hai,

I like to develop drupal site to mobile compatible site could you explain the basic step which i have to take first.

Thanks in advance...

Hello,

I am completely new to Drupal, having only just installed it and read some documentation.

I have the following question: if I initially want to just develop a 2-page web application (described below), how do I do it?

Here is the description of this simple web app: the home page simply has a dropdown list of country names. When user selects a country, he is taken to the second page that lists 10 doctors in that country. The list comes out of a database.

How are the following development tasks done in drupal: