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I am new to drupal and it has only been recently installed. After acquainting myself with the most basic features by watching the videos from drupalize.me, i ran into a wall implementing one of my site design ideas.

I want to have the ability to take multiple types of content and have them ranked by users (this part i figured out, it is votes up/down) and then have the number # 1 rated piece of content from each content type compiled onto a single page along with other # 1 ranked pieces of content.

Hi Drupal folks,

I am doing some researching into various CM systems for a client. Drupal is one of the systems I am evaluating. One criteria that is important to us is high availability.

I did some reading on how to achieve HA with Drupal and I found the following links to be useful:

The more I keep reading on caching it isn't clear to me how the different caching mechanisms update their cache and when. It seems some people say it is on cron.php and others suggest it is time based on a bootstrap check (poormanscron style).
I've decided the following caching systems are what I will need to use before launching my website.
Boost-(replaces drupal cache by default)
APC-
Views cache-(default caching system used by views)
Possibly:
(Authcache/cacherouter)

I expect 70% of the load to be Anonymous, so Boost will handle this. The other 30% I would like to just cache for Authenticated Users via Views blocks if I can help it for ease of use.

Hi,
I'm still a newbie when it comes to Drupal. Enjoying learning it through online tutorials so far - some good book reading is next. I'm getting a grip with how it all fits together.
I've been given a brief asking if the following is possible. I'll try and describe it as well as I can, although trying to get some of it in to words may be interesting...
I need to build an online shop, which I could hand code (in asp), but am keen to try and get working in Drupal.
The shop is for a merchant that sells goods by length, width and thickness, which they have formula to figure out the prices for. This means that there are a set of variables for each product that are applied to a customers requirements. There are 7 variables in total (cost per cubic metre, weight, profit multiplier, finishing charge up to x meters, finishing charge per metre over x metres, delivery charge base rate, delivery charge per extra kilo).
These variables are then multiplied against 3 fixed tables of figures, which pick up on the entered values of the customer, giving a total price. The entered values are going to be: what product they're buying, quantity, length, width, thickness and finish.

Hi, I'm having a problem here, I need to check 2 cck fields (date field & options text field) I will need to dont save the node and give an error message to the user.

For example, Its a tennis club, and made a content type for booking a tennis courts for hours, selecting with the (date field) the time of the tennis match and a (text field with options) to select the number of the tennis court the users selects. (club got 10 tennis courts).

I'm setting up my site structure using directories as i understand this will make it easier for the seach engines to categorize the pages on my site. Say my site is "stressrelief.com"

What i'm doing is creating a page on the top navigation bar called say "products"
What i'm basically doing is creating pages with the urls

products/stress-balls
products/chinese-balls
products/stress-books
etc etc