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The only really hazy thing I have with drupal is: how do I use indexes for my data? Ex: I create a fancy new drupal module that has a table. Drupal uses 'nodes' for all access to data. The node table is just a pointer to the node revisions table which contains the actual 'fancy new stuff' data. Where are my index fields?

How does drupal take advantage of indexing? I'm missing something major...

Hey,

I'm a professional video game reviewer and am looking to build a new look for our site with some sort of CMS. I'm going for something more community oriented, something like the bigger sites (mostly like giantbomb.com).

I'm not going for a direct copy, as I want to add my own spin to things, but the basic question I am asking is whether something of this nature is hard to do in Drupal and whether it is viable to do for someone who is an absolutely novice at web page coding, etc.

If someone could help me out it would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

I am looking to build a RipoffReport.com clone. Any users of the clone site needs the ability to upload the offending companies information, and maybe image. The information about the offending companies than must be displayed on their own page with comments and sometimes featured on the homepage.
Can Drupal do this? Thank you inadvance for your help.

Forgive my inexperience with your platform. My project needs to be able to do the following:

hi'

I'm just begining with Drupal. I am very impressed by modules list !

However I'm looking for a video module with these features :
• categories and sub-categories
• administrator sould be able to post video (URL, EMBED from tubes, and direct upload)

I take a look to modules list, just to V letter (as video ;-)) and find this one :
http://drupal.org/project/videopublishing

It is a correct choice or there is more appropriate one ?

thanks in advance :-)

Hopefully just a quick and simple question. Is it possible to make drupal a centralized script? Meaning it pulls the url (subdomain/domain) and from there it detects which content/mysql/theme it should be showing. But behind the scenes with it looking like multiple sites its only one set of core files with a folder for each sites personal items?