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Drupal - what the heck is it>

I love TikiWiki – I’m looking for something that my wife can use on her web sites – Drupal seems kind of interesting. I have a few questions that I can’t seem to get by “playing around” with Drupal:

Does Drupal have a Wiki built in?
I see pages with a “History” and comparing the current version to old ones – yet I don’t see ((page)) or [[page]] anywhere to create new pages – what gives?

Ban users?
Pesky pranksters seems to be all the rage with high-school kids - how do I ban users here? I don’t see how. I need IP, user name, control.

Bad words?
I need a universal bad word filter that keeps the site from becoming a sewer.

Editors?
I see no WYSIWYG editors – do you folks expect users to code in php? How do I add a nice editor to ALL the pages where my users add information?

I'm getting the impression that Drupal might be something my wife can use in a few years when more user friendly features and a real Wiki are added.

Thanks for any info, I don’t really want my wife to have to spend 2 months mastering TikiWiki.

Suggestions:
When installing a new Drupal allow for a sample community to be loaded - that would quickly allow someone reviewing Drupal to see if it is something they can use. Then a simple way to delete the data and start from scratch.

Video of features:

Slow loading of pages...

I am using 6.2 version of drupal and I'm wondering why are the pages load so slow, well actually not the entire page but the images in particular. And sometimes the image does not display and you have to reload the page for the image to display.

convert non-cms site to drupal ?

I am new to drupal. I have worked on many joomla projects especially on templating but not so much coding. And I wonder if I can do with drupal what I want! I have some questions below about what I want... I appreciate you, if you can answer these questions for me...

so, is it possible to convert a site like www.tutsbuzz.com to drupal system ? I have some questions about that...

Drupal login from outside application

I have a non-Drupal application in which users are already logged in properly, and I want to redirect them on occasions to their Drupal account, without asking them to log-in again. Their Name and Pass fields in the Drupal users table match the ones on the non-Drupal application. Can anyone suggest a way to do this? Thanks!

Importing Menus

Hello,

Heres my situation: I have a bunch of flat file menus from a site im trying to move to drupal
I don't want to have to enter each link manually.
If i could get these all in one file then parse out the values with php.
what would a sql statement look like to:

1. create a new menu

2. create a new menu Item and add it to a.

Thanks in advance.

How to correctly import comments (especially the comments "thread" field)?

Hey Drupal guys and gals :D

I'm working on migrating a large amount of content to the new Drupal-powered version of my site neverside.com. I have about 21,000 users, 95,000 forum threads (nodes)... and 711,000 replies (comments). I imported users using User Import, and the nodes manually with SQL. So far I've successfully imported the users and nodes, as well as set correct taxonomy terms for the nodes to appear in the correct forum categories. I'm a bit stuck on getting the comments imported correctly though.

I have this query written to add my old system's posts to Drupal's comments table (I have a temp table that contains all the relevant data I have available for importing into Drupal... the comments/replies of my old system are sorted by timestamp, no threading at all):

INSERT INTO comments (cid, pid, nid, uid, subject, comment, hostname, timestamp, score, status, format, thread, users, name, mail, homepage)
SELECT
	p_thread_id,
	'0',
	p_user_id,
	p_title,
	p_post,
	'',
	p_time,
	'',
	'0',
	'1',
	'',
	'a:1:{i:0;i:0;}',
	'',
	''
FROM neverside_replies;

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