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can anyone tell me how to get a swf working in the drupal environment? thanks

Hi,

We are trying to get product information using CNET API which would return those information in an XML format. Are there any existing Drupal module which interpret XML and dispatch its content into a database?

Thanks,
Kamkee1111

I only recently learned of Drupal and CMS after agreeing to update an existing Drupal site for a customer. I have years of coding experience in other technologies. I've been working on coding a website template with secure access control, but why reinvent the wheel, if most of that work is all ready done...

I am also the founder (1999) and maintainer of the Open Source Recording Project http://www.jamlab.us
(www required for url resolution)

I'm trying to understand if Drupal is a good choice to update my site. I self host the site on DSL with the help of DNS2go, which 'finds' my dynamic IP. We get around 2,000 downloads every month. Mostly folks just listen. Some folks download existing tracks or request special mixes. They then alter the music and post it back to us. Some excellent musicians from around the world are contributing. All of the music is improvised in it's original form. The raw .wav files are often quite large. The .wav format is required for folks who intend to modify the existing track or listeners who want to make a high quality CD. I also have existing streaming audio and video.

Here are some features I would like to add:
1. adding download counts to each track
2. adding listener comments and popularity polling
3. adding contributor comments
4. update feeds per artist/site - become a fan of artist
5. searching for tracks by artist

I am in a rock band and i need to be able to send large audio files back and forth between people and keep track of them...

i know in theory one can modify a php.ini file to raise the limit of file uploads from 7mb but will it really work?

i am using Dreamhost which so far has been ok...

any other issues i need to be aware of?

is it practical to do this all within Drupal or should i use a combination of drupal and YouSendIt or similar solution?

thanks in advance!

Hi all

I have some rather specific needs, and I am wondering if Drupal is a good place to start.

I am looking to move my site intranet site that I custom built to a drupal installation.

We currently post weekly reports to our users. A database application loops through the report and looks up to whom the report belongs and then it creates a record in our database. The clients then log in and can see their reports.

To do this in drupal:

I thought to establish user profiles. In the profile I will load the unique identifier used to determine to which user the report should be posted.

The next issue is how should I store the reports in the system?

Store the reports as nodes within the system:

Using CCK, create the following fields:

• Title: Use Auto Title? I currently display the records sorted by date and type. No title makes sense b/c it is a report that periodically runs and is in the same format.
• File Field: Load in the PDF
• Report Type Field
• Date Field

I am thinking this should work. However, I would quicly have a node list in the thousands. Would this be a downside or would I just need to filter out the nodes types I want when I am searching?

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