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Okay, so I have determined I will be at the least adding Drupal to my existing usage of Joomla, and possibly replacing Joomla altogether. I have since gotten some of the basics, and advice on where to get more of the basics. Now, per suggestions on this forum, I'll be asking some specifics. Please direct me to the appropriate forum if this is not it!

Due to some concern of concept security, I am building a related but conceptually different Drupal site, which should get me where I need to be (or at least a huge first step in getting there) to build the actual website for a project I am working on.

For this practice site, I'd like to implement a basic forum website, with a several distinct features.

My local development is using php 5.2, I found that the client's web hosting is using php 5.3.3

Hi there,

We are investigating a CMS solution for one of our customers. We have had previous experiences with building sites in drupal but there is one very unique requirement for this project.

The client has the concept of content sharing for specific languages and markets with an inheritance model. Imagine a page that has a block of content on it. This content is written for the international audience [en]. Another version of this same content is tweaked slightly for the United Kingdom [uk] audience.

Now imagine this inheritance tree:

> [en] International Audience
>>>> [uk-ie] United Kingdom and Ireland
>>>>>>>> [ie] Ireland
>>>>>>>> [uk] United Kingdom
>>>> [de] Germany
>>>> [us] United States

When a user comes to the site, their market is determined or they can pick it. When the user is browsing the site in the context of the Ireland market, they would see the international content, when browsing from the United Kingdom market they would see the tweaked content specifically for the UK market.

Basically, if you don’t have a version of the content specifically for your market, you get the version of the content that is closest to your market when searching through your parent markets.

This concept needs to be applied to any type of content throughout the entire site.

I am in the process of building a system on a current Drupal website to handle parent teacher conferences. I need to allow people to see a calendar with only one teacher's time slots, need to allow only one anonymous user to signup for a specific time slot, and need it to show on the calendar when the time slot is filled up. There are a ton of modules out there for these kinds of situations. Can anyone suggest which modules to use? Also, is there a way to have one calendar but allow people to only show events that have a specific teacher.

Thanks.

Hello Everyone

First, thanks for reviewing my questionnaire. Any help is better than nothing.

My Intentions are:
To use Drupal 6.x as a specific news feed from people all over the states of the US. They will be moderators submitting current news, via Drupal's main index.php, about their specific districts or associations.

Hello Drupal Community,

I'm turning to the forum to see if my website idea is feasible on Drupal, or if another platform would be more appropriate.

After logging in, users would use the site to enter about 8 pieces of information for each event (mostly selection from lists / radio boxes, at most one text field).

Aside from maybe an anonymized teaser "There are the last X events entered by our users" blurb on the home page, the events are not to be displayed / published. What will be displayed from the user's point of view, within each user's page, is statistical data about all the events they've entered, pie or bar graphs generated from said data, possibly a way for a user to query their and/or the entire community's aggregate data for comparison purpose.

I'm no web expert for sure, but knowing a bit of php, mysql and html, I handwrote a couple webpages:
- entering event data
- stats and graphs generated by a chart API using above data
- listing event data (mostly to debug, "see" data visually to make sure the line/bar graphs generated are correct)
I'm satisfied with how this single-user proof-of-concept currently works. I'm hoping Drupal is the right platform on which to transition to a more realistic, secure many-users site, because I certainly do not want to tackle user logging, security, css that won't break on various browsers, etc...