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I was not sure which forum was best for this post so I am trying it here.

I have been researching Drupal and reading the forums for several years and in my opinion the biggest downfall of Drupal is it's lack of a straightforward solution for membership subscriptions. It seems to me to be a blind spot for the developers, maybe because it is not their area of interest. However, it has been a constant interest and area of request for the community for years. If you are a developer or have the money to hire one there are ways to accomplish it but for the non-developer and budget challenged individual all of the possible solutions seem so complex and out of practical reach. You have to load and integrate multiple modules while identifying the best combination is like trying to find your way through a forest with no map. Once you have the modules loaded you still have to correctly configure/define your content, permissions, vocabulary, roles, etc., etc. in many / multiple places all creating unnecessary complexity, greater potential for conflicts, multiple points of failure and an environment that is harder to trouble shoot.

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Hi all!

I need to create an online repository for an academic institution's class term projects. I need to be able to create a database containing the projects (which are .pdf's), have the options of search via title, author, semester, keywords, etc., and be able to control access to current and previous students. The option of allowing for user comments on the different projects would also be a nice feature.

Hey everybody,

I'll try to make this as quick and understandable as possible.
Basically, I recently started a website centered around the latest in video game news, as well game reviews.
I'm currently using Wordpress as my primary base for the website, and I've come to realize that it isn't exactly the most versatile platform to be running something like this on.
For reference, my site is http://www.GamerFill.com
(I do not intend to advertise by posting the link; simply to get help.)

I want my site to be more open to the community. I've posted my dilemma on other various webmaster forums, and they've sent me in the direction of either Joomla or Drupal.

Here's a general overview of what I'm looking for:
[*]A blog-styled posting system forming the basis of the website. (Homepage showing "featured", things like that. Similar to what I have now)
[*]An easy way to maintain and edit said blog-type.
[*]I would like for my visitors to be able to register to the site, pick usernames, passwords, avatars, etc.
[*]I do NOT want it to be forum-based. (But would like the functionality to include a message board when the site gains popularity)

Hola!,

He decidido instalarme el drupal y crearme un catálogo de productos con diferentes categorías, ya tengo el drupal instalado, ya hice mi base de datos y está conviviendo ambos en mi mysql. Ahora viene la duda que me ataca, ¿cómo puedo construir mi catálogo usando el core de drupal?.

Aquí les dejo una imagen de mi BD:
http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/1568/bifmadatabase.png

Si alguien tiene alguna idea os agradeceré mucho.

Gracias!!!

INGAMC

Hello,

In my nodes I add pick lists.

Example:

Fruits: apple, pear, peach, etc..

I have three option: added text fields but I would not because you can not edit the text after beating the nodes already added.

The second possibility, create a taxonomy vocabulary and use it by adding a field of type "Content Taxonomy Fields.

The third possibility; Use integer fields and with the function hook_nodeapi change 0, 1, 2, etc.. by apple, pear, peach.

What would you do for me?