Is anyone out there using Drupal for large scale, business critical enterprise applications? Does Drupal's lack of database transaction support dissuade potential users? Are there any other lightweight web-frameworks based on dynamic languages that people are using for these types of apps? What about Java portals such as JBossPortal or...
I'm looking for a download manager module for Drupal. Ideally, it would give the same sort of power that the Sourceforge manager or the Drupal theme download manager gives. That is: Multiple download objects, with descriptions Each type has multiple versions available Nicely delimited on the page Unstable, Supported, and Unsupported ma...
Drupal is very much a "Do Everything" CMS. There are modules that allow you to add almost any functionality, which is great. However, it feels like a lot of the features (v5 and v6) seem scattered around and unintuitive for the user. As a developer, I'm left with the feeling of having patched a site together using bubble gum and string. ...
I have a View with an exposed form . I am trying to a few things on it. Ideally I would like to have a dropdown that fires the form with no button. If that is not possible then I would like to have the button text something different than apply. I hacked it for now and change views_form in views.module but that does not seem like the ri...
I looked for similar questions to mine and one seemed promising, but the accepted anser was not applicable to me (I think.) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/282858/drupal-source-control-strategy Basically one has to have rights on the server you are deploying to. That is not my situation. I use a hosting service and I do not think ...
There has got to be an answer to this, but I am a total web developer newbie. My hosted site has Drupal installed on <site domain>/Drupal. Everything is fine, but how do I publish the site so that I don't have to go to domain.com/drupal? I want just domain.com to work. Do I have to copy the contents to the root of my www? I am tot...
I have a Drupal site with user logins. Embedded within this site is a Flash application that shows some data to everybody but allows extra functionality if the user is logged on. From within Flash, I'm using XMLRPC to access the system.check method (to determine whether the user is logged in) and the user.login method (to log in a user...
On my Drupal powered website, I want to list available downloads at the top of a node page (within a narrow float:right <div>), not at the bottom where they normally appear. Within my theme, I've overridden the theme_upload_attachments() function to generate a <div> of width 40%, but this is showing up at the bottom of the page. Within...
I have a Drupal module page where I am populating a form with a drop-down that contains a list of available parts of a set of files that the user can upload. Once the user uploads a file of a certain type, it removes that option from the list, and when all the available files are uploaded the form will not be rendered. The problem is t...
Hi I need to create a module in drupal to display some data, not being a drupal developer and after reading a couple of tutorials, i cant seem to display anything. I have the next code: <?php function helloworld_perm() { return array('access helloworld content'); } function helloworld_listado(){ return "yea"; } function helloworl...
I'm in the process of starting my own podcasting website. I'm trying to find a good cms to use. At work, I'm a .Net developer and we are starting to use DNN for some small projects around the office. I'd like the new business to be fully open source but it might be nice to use Dnn cause I will already have some experience with it from wo...
I'm creating a newsletter content-type that should have its stories linked using a nodereference field. I to have one theme for the stories when they appear in the newsletter, and another when they appear in ordinary views or in their own page. I have two reasons: Later I'll want to send the newsletter by mail and I'll have to make a...
What libraries or sample code will show me how to invoke Drupal services over AMFPHP from ActionScript? Ideally, they should be compatible with Flash, not just Flex. ...
How do I customize a create content form for a certain content type. In this instance I have a CCK type, of Products but every time I create a product I use 4 fields Name, Price, Picture and dimensions. Is there a way to slim down the create content form to just have these options? Is this what Contemplate does? ...
I am writing a comparison between 3 technology options for building our new website: Wordpress Drupal An MVC framework The boss is sure we should use Wordpress, but the site will be big, with many sections, subsections, pages, and complicated templates. I'm finding it easy to compare WP + Drupal, but not so easy to state the additio...
I am trying to get a drupal 6 view to display in a column format rather than rows. Basically I want to group my pictures/video by taxonomy and display them in a table. Similar to what I have below. I tried enabling grouping with a grid layout but that did not seem to do it. Cows Horses Dogs Cats Picture Picture Picture Picture ...
How can I speed up site development with a particular CMS if I need to build a lot of sites? Should I prepare a few different solutions based on barebone CMS but with pre-built components and deploy them if similar site is being requested for production? Or should I use some solution generator like Joomla-Builder? Are there any tools fo...
The situation is this: I want one user group to have one filter as default on blogs, while another group - another filter, without having an effect on filter defaults for other content types. I know there are a few modules for this, but how would you solve this problem? ...
I need to acheive the following layout/setup for a section of my website: Using the following panels layout: Top column spanning full width containing: - a view (prob themed using jquery cycle) of images relating to current node 3 columns below containing: Left column: List of 4 single hierarchy taxonomy terms: Term 1 Term 2 (...
I am trying to evaluate Open Source options to replace my current CMS based publication application. My current CMS has about 12000 HTML pages and about 100000 uploaded files. The size of the data is about 20 Gigabytes. Drupal, Joomla and Plone seem interesting. However, I am concerned if these are ready to take on all this data. Do you ...