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I work for a news publication and we need a better solution for online payments.

The current system is a hand-made php application that takes the user account number, then credit card information, and payment amount.

I have looked into UberCart and like what i see, however, in order to add a product, it seems the price must be set per product, where as with our subscribers, the amount will differ.

Is there another commerce solution that will allow the user to dictate the amount of their payment, or is this functionality available in ubercart?

About five years ago I started a small news site, taught myself some php, built a home grown cms, etc. etc. Well, it grew to about 50,000 visitors a month and probably a thousand pages and now it is time to take it to the next level.

I think I can get my head around Drupal with some effort. Here is my question:

Is there a way to enter a name, article title, date published, etc and build a call on different pages that arranges the same data but in a different order?

IOW, I have a date index, subject index, and author index. Right now I populate those pages by hand (cut and paste). It gets tiresome. It was no problem when the site was small, but doesn't really work anymore. Is there a way to enter the data once, and then build, say, the subject index page so that the info is called into it and I don't have to hand code the info in?

I want to only enter the relevant data once (ie: author name, date published, subject category) on the posting page, and then have the index pages display that data in a specified order.

About five years ago I started a small news site, taught myself some php, built a home grown cms, etc. etc. Well, it grew to about 50,000 visitors a month and probably a thousand pages and now it is time to take it to the next level.

I think I can get my head around Drupal with some effort. Here is my question:

Is there a way to enter a name, article title, date published, etc and build a call on different pages that arranges the same data but in a different order?

IOW, I have a date index, subject index, and author index. Right now I populate those pages by hand (cut and paste). It gets tiresome. It was no problem when the site was small, but doesn't really work anymore. Is there a way to enter the data once, and then build, say, the subject index page so that the info is called into it and I don't have to hand code the info in?

I want to only enter the relevant data once (ie: author name, date published, subject category) on the posting page, and then have the index pages display that data in a specified order.

Hi,
Can I integrate drupal CMS in lifray portal? I do not need the drupal portal as I am planning to use lifray for it. However I want to use drupal CMS and not lifray built-in CMS engine. Can it be done?
Thanks!

Hi there,

I run a website called www.skinfreak.co.uk which is the offical site for a rock band. Currently it is built in Joomla 1.5, but over the past few months I have been increasingly worried about how it is hanging together. Currently, I am running J!1.5 with phpBB3 for forums tied to the CMS with JFusion. I am using Virtuemart for the web store. The issues are down to incompaabilities with some of my modules and virtumart whcich has led me to create a copy of the website in a subdirectory just to get the web shop working right - which is a pain! User need spearte logins and the JFusion bridge is not as seemless as I would like.

The main requirements of the site are to provide a forum for the band, with a discography and tour information. Browsing www.ericclapton.com I was very impressed with what Drupal could do. Here's the list of what I need / currently offer:

Forum (including a "discuss this in the forum" link for news)
Web store offering downloadable products (mp3s in this case)
Events listings
Blog for news
Community contributed stories and information (comments)
Twitter / Facebook intergration
Music jukebox player
WYSIWYG editor for non-techie admins.

Hi,