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I'm working on (like so many other people, it seems) a complex user profile page. In the end, I would like to be able to have 3 different types of profiles, so I've gone through Michelle's tutorial. From what I've read in http://drupal.org/node/116578 the Views module is pretty heavy on cpu/db load when run pretty frequently. Because of that, I decided to try to go around the Views module and write a custom page-user.tpl.php file to handle the display.

hi.

i am not familiar enough with MySQL to know if there's a difference between:

a. installing drupal 5.1 to mysql 4.x and then upgrading the database to 5.x, or

b. installing drupal 5.1 to mysql 5.x

in other words, if i just installed drupal 5.1 to mysql 4.x and then my web host upgrades to mysql 5.x, would there be any benefit to re-installing drupal 5.1 with mysql 5.x?

i have done very little drupal deveopment so far, so a re-installation would be no problem.\

(you know how easily drupal installs)

what say ye?

What advice would someone who knows about website development

Hello,

I am new with drupal and need some help.

I'm trying to setup a site in which my user can register their current existing blogs (wordpress, blogger, myspace, movabletype, etc) and also create a "ranking" based on linking to my site. User will be able to embed a "badge" on their own blog in which will show their ranking from my site. I know this can be done with drupal or maybe there's a module on how to do this but I have not found it yet and figure that I should create this topic so someone can tell me the module name or how's the trick.

my friend and i recenty made balkan MySpace, http://www.balkan.in check and post a comment about.

Balkan.in
Svetsko a naše!
Bodi in z balkan.in
Budi in sa balkan.in

tnx

Has anyone created a friendlier interface/template for non-technical people to create content or act as group administrator?

Since many community sites have sub-sites, I thought someone might have done this already.