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Is there a 'best practice' method of dynamically populating a flexnode dropdown list?

At the moment I am planning to use a text-area field with a php input type and a custom snippet. But is there a better/more standard way?

I'd like to convert an existing forum to something more along the lines of Digg.com, is that possible with Drupal? I don't need it to be exactly like Digg just close and looking at the current modules it seem like it may be possible, but I'm not familiar enough with Drupal yet to know for sure. Do any of you know if this is possible, and if so what modules I would use to pull it off?

TIA!

I'm looking for a good "base" theme that i can generally default to when i start making custom themes. What is common? What do you use? What do you suggest?

Hi Everybody,

I'm in the middle of testing Drupal to replace my own manual labor on my website. During this process I want to add a music review section - which I currently have on my website. Adding the reviews are not such a big deal - but It would be cool if I could "promote" it so a sub page for the review section - as well as the front page.

Is there any way this can be done?

JonasB

Before I go hacking node.module, I'm wondering if there is any other possible way to do what I need to do.

The drupal access control system has a lot of issues, but I'm running into one with the 'administer nodes' permission. Enabling this is, as far as I can tell, the only way to allow a user to choose to change the publish options for a node. Of course, it also lets a user edit any single node on the entire site (BAD!).

I'd like to store some information about users in their profile. However, this information needs to be un-editable by that user (i.e. I have an internal Member ID in a different database, plus a couple of other fields that should be viewed but not edited).

(1) Is there a way to do this using the profile.module? Using CSS? (I'd prefer to avoid Javascript if possible)
(2) Is there a module that I've missed that already does something like this? CiviCRM is out for us.
(3) Should I role my own module?

Thanks!