Before you start

Hello,

I am about to enter the coding phase of a social dictionary application (yes, another one!) and believe that drupal will serve as a good foundation to build on. At first I considered CodeIgniter to reduce overhead and keep things within the domain of my current coding skills, but since I will need features such as:

- user/role system
- commenting on various content types
- forums (again, links to other content types)
- support for RDF (!)
- multi-lingual interface
(edit: to clarify the context - some features relate to way the dict.cc handles content)

which drupal would provide out of the box, I shifted towards making the commitment of learning the drupal ways and modifying whats there rather than spend that time on the rebuilding of core functionality.

The ETA for open beta is August/September this year. This leads me to the question of wether it would be viable to already use dp7 for getting familiar with Drupal intestines.

Hi all,

Thanks for reading. I am about to start a project with a group of students. I feel the key for our success is to select the right tool with the right flexibility to avoid hitting a wall down the road. We all have some PHP knowledge, but we're wondering whether Drupal is the most adequate tool or better alternatives exist. I really want the flexibility, because if successful, this project could be adopted by the university and enhanced over the years.

So here is an overview of what we plan to do:

1- The idea is to create a collaboration space, where university students have accounts and can publish research articles (ideally with a WISIWIG editor). By default articles are in draft and only visible by the author(s) until published.
2- Articles are assigned a categories
3- Articles can be searched by title and/or category.
4- Collaboration
a- authors can request any other users to help by providing ad-hoc write privileges to an article.
b- Users should have the ability to search, rate articles and add comment to articles (like a forum).
5- Users have a personal space with their details and ability to exchange messages.

I'm hoping to create a website that will allow visitors to directly post product reviews with each review organized into various headings. For example, if a user were reviewing a motel suite, the headings might be:

Bed Comfort/Bedding
Kitchen
Bathroom
Decor

The visitor would see four different input boxes, one for each heading. The review would be posted directly to the website, and future readers would see the headings in bold with the reviewer's comments below each heading.

hi

I add module search into left bar, but I would like to delete the text

Search
Search this site

Could you help me how to do it?

tks in advance

Hi, I've been doing a LOT of reading, but I still am not sure and wanted to ask the community...

I need to have different drupal sites sharing content, using a master => subscriber concept, create the content once, then have other sites grab it using rss feeds.

I'm thinking I will have each site use different domains, same code base, different databases. That way if they want to be moved to different severs, it should be easy.

My concept is to have 1 master control site create the content, like a story, and then tag that story using controlled taxo vocabs with values to indicate which share site it would be shared to.

Example: story 3309 has taxo vocab values: site2, site5, site8

I want that story 3309 to be hidden on the master site, so it doesn't show up on searches or the front page, because really it's just a story to be published to other sites, so it shouldn't show up on the master site.
From what I've read, I could create a controlled taxo vocab with the value = syndicated, to indicate the content was meant to be published to other sites.

? So how would I keep that content hidden on the master site ?
Would I set the user permissions for it so only the user who created it would see it?

I'm interested in creating a site that will allow me to have members log in to have their own personal profile page that will contain content they have paid for via subscription including podcasts, video's, etc., for them.

Thus, I'm not interested in having subscribers all having access to the same content, nor will the site need to be a forum or social network for communications among one another. I'm interested in having subscribers have access to specific content pages dedicated to their user account they can access when they log in.