Help concepting shedule/teacher/class

Hello.
I'm looking at a new project to be made in Drupal and am having a hard time conceptualizing how I can accomplish something, I'm hoping someone or someones will have some ideas.

The site is for a school that has many teachers who teach many classes.

I'd like to create a schedule that can be viewed by teacher, by class type and by room in both a list view (filtered by day, week, month) and a calendar view (filtered by day, week, month).

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Multi-Installation Management Utility?

I'm not sure if this is of any use to anyone else but just in case there are others out there with the same situation, I'd like to hear from you.

To save you a little reading time, this solution is built for the Windows Platform only since it uses Excel. However, the target managed environment can be any platform.

Disclaimer: I have no bias, one way or the other, for any platform - It's all "good" for me because it creates endless opportunity for my "real" job. I happen to have chosen to build this utility on the Windows platform because it was convenient for me and the tools I need exist there...

My "real job" is management consultant and not managing and maintaining Drupal (or other software) installations. Because I do a lot of research and consulting in both Commercial and Open Source architectures and applications, I seem to spend a lot of time helping friends and colleagues manage and maintain their environments.

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I have installed user import and it is working properly from the web interface.

If I use module_invoke in a cron job to make it import a new group of users, how do I tell it what stores parameter set/FTPed file to use?

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Drupal Clean URL with Lighttpd

I found few url-rewrite based solution for enabling CleanURL in Drupal + Lighttpd but none of them worked flawlessly. Guys, all we need here is a simple equivalent of this code (without any side effect, like 404 header etc).

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

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I am moving a few sites to a new server. The mySQL databases are too big to import directly, so I've broken it down, but I'm getting timeouts trying to add a single `sessions` line that's around 1MB. It keeps timing out, possibly because my DSL isn't so fast. I've tried both pasting into the browser w/ phpmyadmin and using phpmyadmin to import a file with just that line. Times out either way.

Is there a way to break one line in half and upload 1/2 at a time? I'm a php/mySQL n00b in serious trouble.

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I have inherited a Drupal site set up over a year ago using version 4.7.1
I've decided that I need to have a physical book in front of me to help me figure things out, so I'm looking at book options. I hesitate to update to Drupal 6.x if I'm not in a position to fully understand the whole thing, but I wonder if I should buy the newest book "Drupal 6" or "Pro Drupal Development." Both seem to have received great reviews, but I'm having trouble determining which one would be best for my particular situation.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

- Will

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