Converting to Drupal

i currently have an active ecommerce site which i hobbled together myself. i am going to migrate this activity over to my shiny new drupal site, once i get it all set up and tweaked to do everything i need.

Hi, I'm a (really)newbie in Drupal but was able to do away with setting of modules, menu and stuff... my question would be, I have an existing site layout using tables, i used css to set attributes to elements, would it be possible to use drupal to run the site's back-end without converting the current layout to purely css? if yes, what are my considerations? Thanks in advance for the insights and help...

im trying to find a clean way to do this and i keep coming up short. has anyone tried this before?

I'm brand new to Drupal, and eager to get the hang of it.

I use a DB class to access my databases, and I store instances of the objects in a global array.

Problem is that Drupal seems to use PHP's default mysql connection, which is consequently the last connection that was made. So I find that after creating a database object, drupal is no longer able to access its own database for settings that belong to the framework.

Any help, cheers.

<?php

public static function getDB($name)
{
global $AntzDbRegistry;
if(isset($AntzDbRegistry->$name) && is_object($AntzDbRegistry->$name))return $AntzDbRegistry->$name;
// we have to create the new object
$fileName = 'Config/Db/'.$name.'.inc.php';
global $dbHost, $dbUser, $dbPass, $dbName;
require($fileName);
$DB = new Antz_Db($dbHost, $dbUser, $dbPass, $dbName, true);
$AntzDbRegistry->$name = $DB;
return $DB;
}

class Antz_Db
{
private $conn;
private $res;
private $showErrors;
private $debug;

public function __construct($host, $username, $pass, $dbName, $showErrors=false)
{
if(false === ($this->conn = mysql_connect($host, $username, $pass))){
// error connecting
return false;
};
$this->dbName = $dbName;

I'm looking to leave Joomla, on my current Joomla site I display client testimonials in blocks on various pages. When the page is refreshed the block is updated automatically to show another testimonial.

I can't find anything that does this in Drupal.... been searching.....

Any ideas? PHP coding is a none starter, I have no experience of coding.

TIA

I decided to give a shot attempting to convert from DF to Drupal. I seriosuly think that I might just as very well succeed as well. I have a very important question about importing data. There is a tutorial given here but I am not being able to understand how do I insert the 'patch'.

http://drupal.org/node/71856