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Hi all,

I have a potential web project I’ve been asked to look into and I’m currently in the process of researching its technical viability with Drupal and also any potential costs (if custom code is needed). A lot of what is required (see below) seems viable and possible, however because I’ve never actually used Drupal in this way I’m having trouble finding enough information one way or the other to see if it’s actually a) possible, and b) possible for me to achieve.

First, some background on me:
I’m been using Drupal for about 2 years now (Drupal 6 and now getting into D7) and have pretty much learnt it as I go along. Most websites I build are relatively small and simple pages with things like web forms, image galleries, views, feeds, etc. I am versed in HTML/CSS but have had no previous experience with PHP except what I’ve poked around with in Drupal (such as custom theme templates, etc.)

The project:

Hi to all! I have been assigned to develop a drupal website for a company and I need it to be professional. I want to ask about version control. I will be working solely on the project, and develop it locally. Then upload it on server. Should I use a version control and if yes , why and which is the best to use?
Right now I am trying to make a professional setup, before I start developing. Are there any suggestions on how should I do the development process? (ex:make one test site locally, then take it live).

Hi all,

I consider the opportunity to migrate the website in I am in charge on Drupal for a while now. This website is composed of different categories (films, short-films, books, musics, …) on a unique thematic.

The website is complex because of interconnections between categories and I would like to know if it is possible to easily import the SQL database in Drupal?
At the moment, data are hard-coded (in HTML files). I plane to migrate data in a database soon. In broad outline, here how things will be organized:
- tables for people (actors, writers, directors,…)
- a table for films, a film should have one or more directors, one or more actors, etc…
- a table for books, a book should have been written by one or more authors, have a description, etc... But books could have a reference to a film (film adaptation) and vice versa (-> another table for those links).
- and so on for each category, categories that could have references between items as explained before with books and films.

… so there are as many tables as categories interconnections.

I have seen a couple of modules that should help for Drupal, but I have to admit that it is hard to know which modules will fully correspond to my needs.
For example, for SQL database import, is its complexity will be a problem? Will there be a loss of interconnection knowledge?

After looking at the most popular CMS, the one I like is Drupal.

However, in my company we will not use PHP. We will use .Net and Java. (besides that we have made ​​developments on them)

My question therefore is whether it can work in this environment: the management of portal through Drupal but that he, through menu options, call applications developed in .Net and/or Java.

Hi,

I'm new to Drupal. But after a long personal research, I heard or found that Drupal is best CMS in the world! I'm still in starting level in Drupal, when I see its admin panel, wow! I was amazed! I have experienced many CMSes, but no one is like it!

I planned to jump to all my sites to Drupal. Now, I want to know this:

I am using Go Daddy as my host and I was told it was ok to set up my test site on host server then when I am ready to launch my site I can switch it out. Does anyone know if this is possible? It seems a wholelot easier then using XAMP