Before you start

I'm an experienced web developer and I'm very comfortable with wordpress. I have a plan for a new website and I was thinking about using this site as a reason to give Drupal a try again because I've heard great things about it. I stopped using Drupal a few years ago because I found it very difficult in that each task I wanted to perform needed a new module (e.g. uploading images required a separate module, etc) so it was frustrating.

The problem I have now is that while I'm going to need a fairly customized backend database (which I can design) to manage my new site, I don't know if I can somehow use this db with Drupal. I've built HTML/PHP/MySQL powered sites before and while I love the DB flexibility of my own hand-coded site, I would really like to add the flexiblity that a wordpress or Druapl would bring to the table.

In a nutshell my site is a niche one where I will provide a suggested book chapter (open sources books) each week for subscribers (whom I will manage through mailchimp).

Putting static pages aside for now (home, about contact, etc), I will be weekly adding a page for a new recommended book chapter (e.g. what I'd call a post in wordpress).

On each of these posts I'll have this (so I would need to make a template):

- The Suggested Book Chapter (which you can click for the open-source chapter)

Which is better of all the CMS software.

Hello,

I understand that Drupal is hard to learn, so before I start I would like to be sure that I will not waste my time.
Could you just confirm that I can do the following:
1) show a list of products (name, description, photo, PDF technical documentation, link with a list of other products) => it is NOT an ecommerce web site. The idea is just to show information abour our product. A product has just 5 or 6 attributes, there is no stock management and so on. Very basic.
2) some attributes, like for instance the description shall be hidden to anonymous members, member shall be authenticated to see those private fields
4) products shall be grouped by several level of categories. Cat1=company name, Cat 2=cat of product. By selecting a company, then a category, the user shall see the list of product, then click on the product to see the detail of the product
5) show a map of a country, and a list of "star" or "circle" (or whatever) at some position where there are revendors. By clicking on the "star" or "circle", it shall show information like revendor name, address, phone
6) Nice To have: the user select a list of product, and it generates a PDF with product information of the selected products

Does it make sense with Drupal?

Hi, I came across this statement in a (D6) discussion about 500.000 nodes:

...this creates a HUGE Drupal database install. All maintenance tasks on the Drupal database are now monstrously large, and maintaining such a huge Drupal database would be a nightmare...

Those 500.000 nodes represent the relationship between foods and nutrients in a 7000+ foods database.

Is this number really scary for D7 ?? do we have any improvement in the way of representing that relationship in D7 ??

i have gone through ubercart module which was specially designed for the site on e- commerce, so i have been trying to find something like that which can be used for the clinical laboratory data management, which includes sample receiving , report entry,report dispatch,and storing data for future references and uses. is there an solution to my problem??

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Hey

This is my first post so please bear with mee (im not sure of the forum category either...)

Anyways, I am trying to create a website such as https://echo.newtechnetwork.org/ which uses drupal (believe it or not xD)