Before you start

Not sure if this is the appropriate section to ask, but still. Is there some way to upload a PDF to a node and create some "embedded" version of it, in a flash sideshow like Issuu does?

Hello,
Drupal is a great CMS, the CMS and this community has helped me with a number of projects. I have a new project and would like to use Drupal but I'm not sure which modules I would need to achieve the functionality I desire.

Here is a basic description of what I will be doing;

1. Setting up a basic website - no problem here
2. Creating a custom "damage assessment" assessment form which users will fill out, the form will get emailed to the site owners and stored in the database - I would use CCK to create this form, this is pretty basic.

Now this is where I'm unclear as to what modules I would need:

3. How can I make the form automatically become associated with the user that fills it out? How do I keep the form private so users can only view their own submitted forms? Users may have more than one form.

Then I want to have a "status" associated with the form so users can log in to check the status of their "assessment" I've thought of a couple of ways to do this:

4. Simply use comments and the site owners can log in and post a comment of the status in the users private "assessment" node. Or, is there a way to utilize a private CCK field that could be updated by the site owners and not editable by the visitors / form owner?

Hi,

I’m looking at building a site that runs the following predicted metrics each month:

• 320k visits
• 200k unique visits
• 5m page views

• 14k uploads
• 16Gb total uploads

I'm keen to use Drupal and have done a fair bit of reading about tuning for higher volumes (using Memcache and the like), but are these figures pushing the boundaries with Drupal?? We'd be using Drupal 6.0.

Cheers.

Hi Drupal Gurus

I have been working with the fabulous Drupal for several months now, learning, migrating to a better host and working on several sites, so this is a bit late for a "Before you start" question ... but here goes.

Configuration:

- D6, PHP5.2.x, MySQL 5 and a meaty server cluster
- I realise that more queries mean more query time/server load and know that query caching helps a lot
- I can set a generous memory allocation in .htaccess say, 48Mb

Question: If I enable many (100+) modules, I guess more code is loaded into memory, but does anyone have experience of whether the increased page production time is significant compared with download time, server to browser? (The kind of thing you'd look at with Yslow and firebug.)

Hello, I'm trying to make a site for my mother.
She wants to start a monthly newspaper to be sent out to her department at work, and I think it would be easiest for her to do if it were a website.
She already has a design (as can be seen here) which she made in publisher, and I was wondering if the best way to make it into a website she would be able to use, would be if I turned it into a Drupal run website.
Is this the best way to do it? Any other suggestions on how to do it?

I would like to use a frontpage slideshow rotator like in mtv.com, mtv.co.uk, or myplay.com do you know if there are a module for doing this???? tx in advantage