Converting to Drupal

I'm porting a hand-coded outdated site to use drupal. It's an online magazine. I have pretty much everything figured out except one thing that's been bugging me for a while (doing this part time).

Like a paper magazine, the site releases "issues" which all contain multiple articles. I think that what I'm after is something that's lacking (but not unfeasible) from drupal and that the category module (which I'm not a big fan of). In my primary link menu, I have a "Back issues" link and in there I want to list all back issues. An issue should be a custom type because it contains some text and images. Each article is a "child" of a particular issue and they should all be listed inside the issue custom type node body.

Here is what I was thinking and you can probably let me know if that all makes sense.

1. Create an Issue content type with all the custom fields I want to have
2. Create an Issue vocabulary and have all the issues releases as terms (ex: august 2007)
3. Install the View fusion module (or something like it) to be able to render a view inside of the body of a node and allow to list all the articles tagged with the given term.
4. Create an Article content type with a required vocabulary term selection from the Issue vocabulary to correctly categorize the article.

Is Drupal Right for My Corporation?

If this message is posted in the wrong forum, I apologize. Have been looking into converting our corporate site over to Drupal. My only concerns, would Drupal be able to provide my corporation's online communication needs. I am not a hard core programmer, but creative director/designer with intermediate insight with PHP. The overview of needed development is as follows:

Anyone out there ever converted an Ideal BB forum to the Drupal forum module? I'm looking at a site with hundreds of thousands of forum posts and trying to figure out whether porting to Drupal is a reasonable option.

I have an MT3.x site that I'm wanting to export from and import into Drupal5.x. I read http://drupal.org/node/860 and tried the import_typepad module (http://drupal.org/node/38172), had some difficulties even seeing the module in my site but after reading http://drupal.org/node/111614 and applying the unreviewed patch and info was able to access it.

Hi,

I have an existing J2EE based web application to which I'd like to add some functionality such as blogging and a forum. I'd like to be able to embed this content within my existing pages. For example I might wish to display a summary of the most recent forum posts or blog posts on an existing page built from a JSP. Is there any way to do this - for example some frameworks provide Javascript snippets (like some the Google API's) that could be embedded with a page.

Help I dont have a clue how to get drupal on my site and up and running