Drupal 8.x

Hope I'm not jumping the gun, or pre-empting any official discussion, but I'd like to offer my (non-wish list) suggestions for Drupal 8, which is aimed at making it more consistent and more flexible.

Deprecate nodes

The problem I have with nodes, is that they come with a lot of baggage and inflexibility. I don't run a blog, and have never needed "posts" to have an author, revision dates, option for comments etc. And consequently there are a thousand modules required to "override" their inflexibility.

Replace nodes with "records" based on CCK, Views, Rules, Theme template engine

I'd like to see Drupal 8 based on core Fields, Views and Rules, and modules based around them. The huge advantage of this, is flexibility. For example, a node title is special text field that must appear first on a page. If a node title was a a standard CCK field, it could appear in a different order on a page, or even be a date field. I see Drupal 8 to be more like a standard relational database.

Extending CCK

I envisage CCK fields being a bit more flexible, so that I don't need new CCK modules. I should be able to define my own CCK data field formats, specifying how the data is verified, formatted and displayed. All we're really doing is displaying collections of data objects.

Modules

Something strange is going on. I can't seem to find out where to get rid of the default home page that comes when Drupal is first installed. After I upgraded Drupal to the latest version this page has just popped up, and my site information does not appear there. I tried diverting the home page to another page, which I succeeded in doing , but when I log out, it says access is denied. Everything is fine when you are logged in, except you cant see the site information.

What I really want to do is just get rid of the default text , but I cant seem to see where I do that.

Hello everyone.

Hello, Forum;

I'd like to get an idea of how difficult it should be for an experienced Drupal developer to build a component that allows a CMS user to select a CSV file in the user's system, then have that file pushed to a database by the CMS (Drupal) when the submit button is clicked. Seems like this should be a fairly simply pursuit, almost an off-the-shelf component in the Drupal environment.

I have an existing web server with a website in the document root. I would like to install Drupal and have all my Drupal stuff inside it's own directory like /var/www/html/drupal/ while the existing web site should remain in /var/www/html/. Is something like this possible to do? How would I go about installing Drupal in this fashion?

Thank you.

Hi folks, I have a very extensive static website with multilevel hierarchy in its structured categories. I'm thinking about moving to a Drupal based site. ( I've used Joomla before, but found it to be a security nightmare, always fighting off russian forum spammers or hackers who wanted to post or join. So for other sites I've used WordPress with Akismet, which works well to block that nonsense. )