Before you start

Hiya

I'm looking to implement a user driven CMS for a company intranet and Drupal looks awesome. (currently all updates are made by IT. ugh)

The current intranet is used almost more like a document management system (lots and lots of lists of files).

This is where I am having a problem with Drupal.

The intranet has/will have several groupings of files on a page. Kind of like this:

I'm evaluating using Drupal as my CMS.

I plan to manage and serve a series of video files.
The video will be delivered as HTTP Streams (I'm not interested in using existing modules that convert video to Flash versions, etc.)

Questions:
1) Drupal appears to be a very database-node centric solution. But for my purposes, I need a file-based node capability. It is not feasible to add my video as Blobs to the MySQL database. Can Drupal manage file-based nodes as effectively as the database-based nodes? In particular, can I use Drupal for effectively managing access to my video content? My main reason for considering using Drupal is for controlling access to my content.

2) I have seen some references on the forums regarding file-based nodes. Can someone please point me to documentation and examples on how to configure and use file-based nodes?

3) I have seen that there are a couple of existing modules for video. But they seem to revolve around converting to other formats and using Flash players, etc. I need to serve pure HTTP Streaming video. This should require little more than serving a generic file. Can someone please point me to anything on HTTP video streaming using Drupal?

4) Ultimately my goal is to serve the video to an iPhone client via a Drupal-base web service. Can someone please point me to how I can create web services with Drupal.

Dear Drupal users,

I use currently another CMS system and I have massiv problems with it. Main problem is, I need captcha support (we have a lot of spam bots on our site) which I must install via a plugin, but upgrading the CMS to new minor-version (security reason) breaks captcha support from the plugin.
I really hate to test with every minor update that it not breaks any functionality, so I decided to start the evaluation of alternatives.

What I currently have:

- CMS with the possibility to write article and link them in a customized menu
- WYSIWYG Editor
- News ticker (to show important news in a cronological form)
- A download area where registered users can download files after accepting a license (only 3-5 people can upload files here)
- A forum (phpBB) with a bridge to the CMS user database (registration in the forum is disabled), cookie is shared (if the user must login in drupal and phpbb it is not a problem if the account from drupal is used)
- Redmine to track projects and see how is working on what

What I need:

- CMS system with captcha support.
- It should be easy update able without breaking functionality
- If update is more complicated it should be documented on a fixed location, so it is easy to find
- The possibility to convert a joomla CMS to Drupal (which should be possible if I understood the documentation correctly)

Hi,

I'm a long time wordpress user but I heard great things about Drupal and it's friendly community recently.

I'm pretty sure this can be done using drupal and am just after any helpful advise about which modules will better suit my needs.

Im after a community driven website, where people can easily review, rate and upload pictures on local shops. Then people can continue to rate and review the same shops or add new ones.

I'd like the search to look for shop name, address, town or area.

I'd also like google maps intergrated if possible.

Hi all,

I have a site which is already developed using Java technologies.

It has static pages in front end and form submissions in back end.

I have a doubt that from now can i use Drupal for updating static pages ,images. Is it possible through Drupal that a already developed site can be managed.

Also, can back end form submissions are possible with Drupal.

Any help is appreciable

Thanks!

Hi
I need to build a site in four different languages, running on different domains. (Possibly more languages in the future)
They all need to share the same functionality, modules and page templates, but with some differences in the stylesheets, and graphics.

The editors could either work from one login or log into each site separately, but I – as an administrator – would prefer to work from one single login.