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Hi All

A very general question for you all... I've been building Drupal sites for a few years now - in both 6 and 7 - mainly informational (academic, ngo etc) non-commerce sites. Some with a few thousand users, some with just a handful. I'm pretty familiar with Drupal, PHP, module development to an extent - and, of course, theming.

So - I've been asked to build a site for a private healthcare business which links up private salons across the country (the UK) under one umbrella organisation. Patients need to be able to book appointments online, based on Treatment, proximity of salon, and time slot - then to pay for them by Paypal or similar.

They currently have a website (not-Drupal) that goes this far but no further.

The booking process then needs to trigger a prescription for any drugs / treatments etc that will be required to be sent to the relevant practitioner in time for the appointment (the validation of this needs to be handled too - either as part of the website framework or outside of it).

Acceptance and confirmation of the appointment needs to go from the practitioner to the patient by email or text and preferably automated from the website. 24 hours before the appointment an email and/or text reminder needs to go to the patient along with a diary reminder to the practitioner.

Hi,
Noticed that I'd never receive any email notifications on any forum posts I created or I replied to, it seems like every time I have to login to Drupal.org to check my Dashboard in order to know if there are any new replies to my participating forum posts, not ideal in promoting discussions.

As I just migrated from Joomla, not really used to this Drupal forum, tooo primitive, wondering why not redeployed with the Advanced Forum module with a better design. This does not look like a decent forum in any sense.

Regards,
Jet

Hai,

I like to know the major difference between drupal 6 and drupal 7 could you, I search a lot but,i couldn't
Thanks in advance.

Hai,
I like to develop a social network could you tell, what are the basic steps i have to take for these work..
Thank you in advance....

Dear all

I would like to know whether there is any available theme/module that provide tabbed pages like the one in drupal 6 or 7? I am looking for a menu in tabs and sub-menus in sub-tabs. So far, I tried nice-menus and menu block but it did not provide the same appearance.

Thank you for letting me know.

Best regards,
GG

Hi there

I'm very new to DRUPAL and wondering if some one could help me in making a decision of whether to go with DRUPAL or not?

I donot know if DRUPAL has below capabilities.

Requirements:

1. Mobile Optimised website (should function on major smartphones Android/APPLE & BLACKBERRY)

2. Has a Login System

3. Neatly designed Pages, something like Example: http://m.autoricambimenei.it/

4. Dashboard, Statistics, Reports etc

5. Customisation of the template in future