Converting to Drupal

* we are migrating a homegrown, perl/mason-based extranet. i am evaluating many CMSes, so far installed drupal, joomla, bricolage, nuxeo, and alfresco, and like drupal the most
* i looked at that IBM article that webchick refered to in her google presentation that described how they used drupal for an extranet (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/osource/implement.html)

* we have lots of resources that have to be restricted by role, and it looks like we will have to add modules for that. we have 100+ roles and will have more.
* we want to be able to add a new group using a template or something that automatically creates a hierarchy of folders or the equivalent and about 4 associated roles with the new group (like, for new customer company fred, create fred admin, fred super user, fred viewer, fred editor)
* when a new user is added, they have to be approved and added to the appropriate role by our administrator-- this will not happen automatically
* we will also have an internal staging and publishing workflow which will post to these customer groups (adding 2 more roles for each group.)

i was wondering if anyone had success with a similar process or any recommendations?

Hi All,

I need to port a load of users from joomla to Drupal. I have a script to most of it, apart from the dates (first registered, last login, etc).

Joomla gives the dates as "2006-08-15 22:53:03"

Drupal stores dates in (my) MySQL as "1186599292"

These are both generated by the same host/account - so no differences there.

I'm guessing the Drupal date format is the Unix/Linux seconds since the epoch type format, but can anyone point me at a web page/script/service/formula to convert these?

Many thanks,
Gareth

I am thinking about moving my site to Drupal, but I need to know a few things. The most important is can I use the drupal logins created by users to control access to other parts of my site. Also, is the username easily stored in a session variable so I can use that login to control some dynamic content?

Thanks.

I have created a webform (from module webform) that I would like to use to replace the "Personal Contact Form". In other words, when someone clicks on a user's personal contact link, instead of getting the default "Contact Form", I'd like them to get the defined webform. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Greetings,

I am currently engaged in fairly large site redesign project and I am using Drupal 5.3 using the php template engine. I am well versed in xhtml and css, and understand the basic principals of php, and have a php pro at my disposal. I have developed some other sites w/ drupal, but have only modified an existent theme's css files to produce desired results. I am not a total newbie, but I am sailing into uncharted territory.

I just upgraded to Drupal and all i have to say is WOW. So many features, so many options, it's incredible..

Still new at this, and had a couple questions.

1.) Is there any module available to integrate LifeType blogs? How about vBulletin forums with vBadvanced blogs?

2.) What is the easiest way to add flash (.swf games and .flv) content to the site.

I am totally new at this, so if you could be detailed in your answers I'd appreciate it.

Thanks.