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Hi,

I am trying to decide whether to use drupal for an application development project we are starting, or to go with one of the custom php frameworks. We are not building an article/publishing type application. Rather, it is more of a web application.

Since Drupal has so much there, already working and tested together, my preference would be drupal.

Question: how flexible is drupal with respect to node/content types.

Is it fair to say, anything which can be represented as a record in a database table, can also be represented as a node type in drupal, which can then gain all the drupal advantages of indexing/searching/categorizing, multi-language, templating, user management, etc..?

If so, that would seem to be a real incentive for leveraging drupal in application development. If the website infrastructure is already there, and all one has to do is code up the application specific stuff - that would be great.

What module should I be looking at for doing this? I've heard of flexinode, CCK, but can't seem to find significant documentation on it. Any pointers would be great.

Is there a way to define the fields displayed when listing the nodes of that node type? (ie. not the detailed listing of the node page, rather a "teaser" listing of all the nodes of that type). What module would I use for that?

Finally, the big question - are there application types for which drupal is known to be unsuitable?

Running the forum in drupal 4.7 I would like to have have anonymous posters be able to start forum topics and be able to enter their name, email addy, and homepage. Can anyone tell me how to get this second part kicking?

I have it so they can post but it shows up as anonymous and there is no place to enter their info in.

Heya again everyone. I have an issue which is pretty simple, but can't seem to make it work.

I want to make the textarea field in excerpt into a standrad test input. The reason is that TinyMCE makes the window into a WYSIWYG area, unfortuently I can't make the teaser off, and the body on, at the same time by default. If anyone could help, it would be very appreciated.

Jonny Stopchick.
JDStopchick@gmail.com

Greetings.
I have recently installed Drupal 4.7 and now have the problem that user pictures/avatars are being reduced when uploaded: animated gifs lose their animation and it seems that at least alphatransparent pngs lose their transparency.
I have been searching in the forums here for a while and have not yet found any explanation, so I hope you can help me out with it.

OK, I've been tinkering with Drupal for a while now and have spent a lot of time digging around in the handbooks, forums and API docs, but still find myself confused as to how to achieve the end result I want. So, I hope if I describe what I want in broad terms someone can tell me how to go about achieving it. FWIW I think some sort of overview of how Drupal works is sorely needed, including info on where/how one can modify things. As it is I still have no idea whether I need to hack existing code, write a module or do theme stuff.

The site structure uses a taxonomy vocabulary with both page and story nodes. All very standard. I would like each category to have a 'category home page', which would all follow the same structure (one headline news story plus n others from the category, together with a separate list of pages from the category).

Is there something faster, and better on install than drupal?

I get the feeling that I'm just trying to use beta software.

I've been working with drupal for 2 months professionally, and after several hundred man-hours I'm pretty well tired of using it.

I'm getting the blank pages error again.

//Do I really need to become an uber php coder to use this? isn't the avoidance of code the VERY REASON that people use drupal? reinventing wheel comment...

4.7? or 1.4.7?

this is too much.