Before you start

Is there a way to open your node.tpl.php file in notepad (I know how to do this), copy the script to a an editor and work on it from the front-end on your computer? Then ftp it back to your site? Is this a customary way to edit your pages? What editor should I use?

How can I add filters in the Views that they are hyperlinked, clicking on which you can sort them? And also you can use multiple filters simultaneously hyperlinks.

I've been a hobbyist PHP developer for years, wrote our existing real estate company website from scratch, complete with tons of database stuff yadda yadda yadda. I'm just getting started with Drupal in anticipation of doing a complete overhaul of our site and I'm trying to wrap my head around how all the pieces need to fit together.

The part that I'm not so sure about is this... part of our website needs to be a searchable database of all of the properties on the MLS. This will contain thousands of records at any given time, updated daily (by deleting all old records and creating new records, even if there has been no change) by parsing a CSV file that our MLS provider gives us.

My big question is... would the proper way to handle these records be by making each one its own node? Or would that completely swamp my Drupal installation/database? I thought about just dumping them into their own database but I would kind of like for them to have the functionality of any other article or item on the website (commenting, accessibility from other modules for stuff like "Email to Friend" etc.).

Also, what would this type of application look like in terms of the process?

Traditionally, it would be something like:

Hi all.

I have found a few posts on this topic, but most of them are with Drupal 5.

We'd like to have a photo gallery with the ability to download the photo after paying (paypal is fine). What would be the easiest way to do this in Drupal 6? Apparently there are already 300 photos, so it would be helpful if they could upload many at once, categorize them etc.

Thanks.

I'm versed in building old-style non-interactive html websites using just css files. I've basically built such a site with the LOOK I want, but I need the interactivity of Drupal so new Participant vendors can each have yearly-paid access to a pre-formatted set-sized division (think of a directory introducing a growing number of Participant vendors displaying their company splash as you scroll down the page).


I need each Participant vendor to have right of access only to his/her own (new Participant Drupal-assigned) pre-formatted "division" so they can submit, say, a 300x300 jpg on the left and some max amount of intro text and / or logo on the right, plus a button linking to their own entire page on the same website which they would also have tools to set up with more freedom as they wish, preferably drag and drop for their jpgs and auto-formatting textboxes easy for non-techies.


So each vendor has his own (what I always called) css predefined table to fill in within tight parameters on a front page to keep a fairly uniform site appearance. Each new table or division created gets added to the existing scrolling "list" of divisions, automatically inserted alphabetically by the Participant vendor's company name.


This is for a website introducing independent perfumers' fragrance lines, so I need a deep-toned zen-like high-fashion look, not bloggish.

10-Jun-10

Good Afternoon All,
I hope I'm posting this in the correct forum. I've been tasked to research a CMS that is compatible with Oracle. I'm looking at all options, Drupal being one of them. From what I've read so far, Drupal does not support Oracle. However, Drupal does have a project that may support Oracle (http://drupal.org/project/oracle), and there's a beta release for it: 6.x-1.4-beta4.

I have a few questions I'm hoping the Drupal community can answer.