Converting to Drupal

I have only been at drupal since February and I can write modules and install it in under an hour.... but I still can't get a real site up and running because I just can't get my head around this Taxonomy stuff.

There was a really useful article about how you need to change your thinking to get site structure to work in Drupal but I can't find it if my life depended on it. AND IT DOES! I had a deadline of the first of the month to get a site working...

The problem is that I want to build a "standard" site, with hierarchal structure and menu system (2D using DHTML). I know I need to build a Taxonomy, but I don't understand how to link it to navigation (so I can walk the hierarchy with a little code to build the menus).

Jeremy (Zaza)'s article article series "Making Taxonomy Work My Way" was both helpful and totally confusing because it says that you need to patch 4.5 but the instructions for 4.6 are much simpler (then proceeds to NOT GIVE THEM!!!!).

Bryght's amazing tutorials differentiate between a brochure site and a community site.

The post "Proposal: merge book and taxonomy modules" gives an example of a normal site. Except that it should also have a user forum and a products (catalog-ecommerce) section and in one case, a member bloggs section and a local news section.

Heya all --

I've been poking through Drupal for the last week or so, evaluating for a redesign of an existing site. I have a pretty good beginner's handle on things, but wanted to get the pro thoughts on how to do this.

The site has the following tree structure:

hi everybody,

i would like to use my own login for drupal. Not the normal login page used.
So i would like to login via my pam module and use this login info to login the user into my drupal forum.
that for i need a module that takes the login info from pam and gives it to the drupal login to login the user directly, without asking him again to login.

is this possible ??
does anybody has some ideas or solutions about it ??

i would be very happy than...

greets

aLeX_k......

Hi

Can anyone please help with imorting in forum topics into Drupal?

I have brought in the topics and can see them when I navigate to their node (and they are correctly put in the right forums).

However, when I go to the forum page which lists all the topics in that forum, they are not appearing.

I have put data into the following tables:

forum
term_node
comment_statistics

Any help greatly appreciated.
Rachel

Testing out if I can move a bunch of stuff, including MT blog, to Drupal. I got the mt-to-drupal.cgi script, which is a great start, but clearly the table stuctures have changed since it was written.

In particular I changed the SELECT vid from vocabulary node where node like blog to
SELECT vid FROM ${db_prefix}vocabulary_node_types WHERE type LIKE '%blog%'"
and that made the basic import go with some errors. It put the wrong UID on all the postings, which I fixed with direct SQL updates.

Hi,

I've successfully imported a database into flexinode's format, all fields are ok, everything goes right, the http://foo.bar/node/123 URL shows the right data.

BUT! I should put the flexinode's formatted output into the {node} table for the search capabilities. Are there any function, how can I force flexinode to do a themed, formatted output into {node}?

Bests,
Aries