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We are looking at open source solutions for website management, mainly to stop spending so much money on software licenses. Since my superior would not want website edits to appear on the live site without being able to see each "page" first, and we often work for months on new templates (redesign the site); is there a way to clone or mirror the live site in such a way for us to have a testing environment, from which weekly edits could be easily updated?

I'm building a product support site for my company. I've built 10+ sites with Joomla but have just started playing around with Drupal and Xoops. I'm trying to decide between those 3 on what would be best for this site.

Joomla's lack of group level access controls is what made me go to Drupal. However, I'm not sure Drupal can do everything I want.

Here's what I'm looking for, and in parenthesis, which platform I think has the edge. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

- User groups: We have 4 products and many groups of users (Access to Prod A only; access to prod B and C only; access to prod A, C, D; etc). (Drupal; although the JUGA mod for Joomla will work).

- Downloads: Software downloads, manual downloads... all based on group level access. Also the ability to group downloads and for admins to easily upload them. (Joomla with JUGA?)

- LMS / e-learning - ability to assign learning content to users or more importantly, assign quizzes that prove they understand the material. User could submit the quiz answers which could go in their record or to a DB that provides reports. (Joomla has the JoomlaLMS addon)

- Calendar - ability to display upcoming events and training courses, and for users to sign up for courses. (Joomla)

- Users sign up to training classes - signup only allows for x attendees and will block attendance when it is full. (Joomla)

Hi all,

I'm very new to Drupal. I've got a test site installed running Drupal 6 and have added Views 2 and CCK and getting started implementing changes and adding content types. Also in restyling the Template to suit my needs.

My question is this:

Hello everybody,

I use drupal 5.12 (i believe it is) and I'm totally new to drupal (and cms-systems). However I do know how php, html and css works. My question is quite simple: is there a way of removing the table-based design in drupal ( I'm talking about the

Does anyone know if there is any integration between Drupal and IBM's Websphere enviroment? We have Connections, Quickr , etc installed but wanted to access some of the information in these systems. I didn't know if there was any native way (or existing modules) that would allow Drupal to access and present this information

Any info or tips on what to search for would be appreciated.

Bob

Hi Friends ,

i m working on website which is developing i drupal.
in that i display list of all companies name & their description under company directory,
i want to apply Html input format to description field ,
so please can anybody help,
reply me on prasad.b@iworktech.com

Thanks in advance