Before you start

Hi all,
I am new to drupal.. and have lots of queries... I found drupal very interesting and very easy to work with. I like it a lot.
But right now i am not able to find a solution to my problem. My problem is - I want a menu item to be added in the administrator part that i have done .. and on clicking that item i want to upload a xls file and to save the data of the xls file in the table...
I searched for module but did'nt find any... i need help.... i am not able to get how to proceed in this way.

Please help me .....

Hello,

I have a display problem with check_plain() in node-exemple.tpl.php.

<?php print check_plain($info['field_alesage']['widget']['label'] . ' × ' . $info['field_course']['widget']['label']); ?>

This code returns me a null result because of "×". I can not understand why especially since this same code works in one of my blocks.

Thank you for your help!

Hi

I am trying to outline a module based solution for the following website :

We have a community webpage and the main guy who takes care of the technical related issues quits on us stating that he can't find time to continue to do so. I have minimal experience with website developing/maintaining and would like to learn more. He used Drupal and currently the website is running Drupal 5.1. I would like to continue to use Drupal but need to learn it. Where and how do I start?

Thank you very much for your time.

Hello,

I use $variables or $vars in one of my node without using the function _preprocess_node. Is this possible?

Example (in node-trial.tpl.php):
$vars['trial'] = 10;
print $trial;

Yet the result is NULL ...

Thank you in advance for your help!

Hi all,

I'm doing research to decide which CMS could be more suitable for a complex community-choice competitions system.

I'm looking the most popular CMS as Drupal, Joomla!, Plone, DNN, Typo3 and so on.
I know that there are a lot of modules for each CMS which can cover all my needs, but I know also that the experiences are very important, so I'm here to hear some experiences about Drupal in a context with these characteristics:

1. Multi-site Deployment (mandatory)
Host multiple web sites that use the same installation. Each site will have its own domain, permissions, languages, templates and content. It should be possible for some roles (e.g. super-admin, lead editor, organization members) to use the same login in multiple sites, or better yet, maintain a continuous login session and user profile across multiple sites.

2. Sharing documents and search (mandatory)
In a multi-site context we need to share documents and contents (blog, wiki, forum) across multiple user profiles, sites and (if it's possible) domains.

3. Chatting system
The possibility to have a chatting system among users across multiple sites.

4. Scalable for mass community use
For example, sites will not crash with 100,000 visitors and hundreds of logged-in users using the site on a daily basis day.

5. Multi-lingual