Converting to Drupal

I am relatively new to Drupal.

I have a website that I am trying to build that synchronizes, or at least pulls data out of, another database.

This site has two main components: News Releases/Blogs and dynamically generated automotive catalogs. I am planning on using drupal to completely handle the news releases and blogs. However, I have a custom built application that is used throughout our office to handle building the automotive catalogs (each catalog is tied to an automotive sale in our area). The custom application is written in Delphi/C, and has an XML-RPC server built in. It can also natively handle SOAP requests.

I've considered making the cataloging application an online application written as a module in Drupal, but it needs be fast (the reason we wrote it in a compiled language) and it needs to have fairly tight integration with some custom hardware when we go to sale sites.

My question is: Is it possible to integrate the custom application into Drupal? Can I make a menu item that queries the external database (possibly via XML-RPC or SOAP) and returns the data to my template? Once I have populated the site with external data, can I dig further into the dynamically generated catalog and look at individual catalog items (again, possibly via XML-RPC or SOAP or some other similar tool) without leaving the site?

Hi,
My site was converted to Drupal 3 month ago and since than, it got blocked by Google.
All the pages are indexed but it's not ranking at all and google bot is not crawling the site.
What might be a problem and where should I look.
Any help is very appreciated.

Hallo all

i have to change a german diary plattform from ASP to drupal. What i would like to do is to still leave the current page

http://newserver.onlinetagebuch.com/view/home.asp

and post all the entries to drupal as well.

Phase 1: Users still work on the old ASP frontend - but in the background posts and comments are submitted to drupal as well

Phase 2: Switch to drupal. Turn off the old ASP page

I'm putting together a site to help people whose native language is English to learn Arabic - mainly an online lexicon. I've not done much with Drupal before but am html/php literate. I'm starting with v5.7 and CCK. I've created my main dictionary entry page/fields. Now what I want to do is:

Okay ive built a few tiny sites with joomla, ive never touched drupal but i hear that drupal pretty much puts joomla in the bin when it comes to community driven websites. heres what i need to do and here is how i would have done it in joomla, what i need to know is can i and HOW can i do it in drupal (module wise)

-main gallery of site
in joomla i use rsgallery2 to have a gallery for the whole site
1. users can upload images in batch via zip files
2. users can make new galleries and sub galleries and i can control how many from the back end
3.users ca delete their own images and galleries and edit them.

-main video section
in joomla i use hwdvideo share, like most joomla extensions that are actually useful it costs money to have its full functionality.
1·users can upload videos converted with ffmpeg
2.voting, commenting, sharing, embedding. downloading and integration with community builder costs money.
3.categorization (no batch functionality)

-main reviews section
jreviews costs money but its the only good reviews component
1.reviews laid out really nicely
2.images in the reviews layout
3.field customization

-profile page
community builder
too many things to actually list, users can do everything right up to customizing the actual profile page itself.

-groups
this is where joomla has failed

I'm somewhat new to Drupal, and I'm not exactly sure how to tackle this...

The site I'm converting has a form which gets submitted to subscribermail.com How should I approach converting this? Can I just create the form right in the body of a page using standard html? What about adding the current field validation javascript?

Thanks for any insight you can give me,

Marianne