Before you start

I'm new to Drupal, but have been building SME sites since '96. And whilst admiring Drupal for some time, I finally have the opportunity to (hopefully) use it in an intranet environment.The site is basically a community site with:

I have been asked to implement a "UK store locator" which finds the closest stores to the users location and displays the results marked on a Google style map. I have searched high and low for a solution, to no avail. While searching I came across many other Drupal users looking for a similar tool, has anyone found a practical solution to this issue?

I know enough to implementing a Drupal site, but it is fair to say my knowledge of Drupal is still fairly basic, so any help would be much appreciated in getting this sorted out.

Many thanks in advance.
Ben.

I have an old OsCommerce shop that I enjoyed working on, but have a new project and am looking at that includes a CMS/blog and a shopping cart. I'm leaning towards ZenCart because I'm pretty sure that it can suit my needs as a shopping cart. But I'm not certain that it can offer the look & feel that I'd like to accomplish especially since there are so many free templates for Drupal that I can use as a base for my site's design.

I am looking to build a product catalog (which will be the majority of my site's content). I doubt we will ever sell the items through the site itself (but if we did, it would only be for autheticated users with a particular role). At any rate, while I think Ubercart could be a way to do it, I would be curious how to do it with just taxonomy. I would imagine the catalog portion would have about 7-8 main categories and maybe one set of sub-categories under that.

Hi All!

I am making a new website about my favorite thing in the world, organic restaurants.

I am writing this post to see if you guys think that Drupal is an ideal solution for what I am trying to build.

I have some knowledge of PHP and JS and HTML and a tiny tiny bit of CSS...but programming is my hobby so I am willing to learn more to use Drupal.

THING #1

Here is the senario:

Let's suppose the following happens:
An organic restaurant is added to the database, where the restaurant's city is different from all other restaurants in the Database.

I want the following to happen

• A new page is created of the form mydomain.com/new-city
• The new page queries the database for the 3 nearest cities and then writes links to each of those cities (this part is easy)
• Dynamically writes gmaps and ajax code, with some specific values (this part is easy)
• Then once the page is created, I want to be able to go in a modify things about that specific page, and have those changes remain.

( Eg, people will be searching google for LA, in addition to los angeles, but my Database doesn't know that LA is a common abbreviation for los angeles, and for now, I don't care to program another field so it knows that :p )

Thing #2

Hello All -

This is my first post & I am looking forward to jumping into this community and helping out etc. I am hoping for some feedback on whether or not Drupal is a good move for this project I am undertaking.

I work for a small business and the owners are planning on franchising out and they want to offer (as part of the franchise deal) a new website-based training site where all of the training material/documentation/policies are online and managers/owners can collaborate together on documents, and new employees can access training material from the office.