By Dio-1 on

Hello everybody,
I am currently migrating the Web site of a small organization to Drupal 5.1, adding a lot of community functions in the process. I have installed Drupal and got most things up and running; I installed several modules with functions I want for the website and they are working fine; Drupal is definitely a great CMS! However I am still looking for the following functionality:

  • How can I display a menu horizontally, i.e. similar to the top menu on drupal.org (support, handbooks, forum etc.)? I haven't found an option to do this. Do I need a module for this? Or can it be done with CSS?
  • Is it possible to "link" roles to profile fields? In my case, if a user registers and fills in a certain profile field (an ID number of our organization), this should automatically grant him a certain role (which I have already set up). If he later deletes the number from this field in his profile, he should no longer have this role. Any hints on how to get something like that working?
  • Is it possible to restrict certain user roles to certain terms in certain taxonomies? (i.e. user role "x" can only post in taxonomy Y and select only terms A, B and C, not E and D). Essentially what I want to do is restrict certain user roles to certain areas of my site regarding node creation/editing.
  • Which WYSIWYG editor module is generally considered best? Does TinyMCE still have the relative/absolute URL bug (if you enter a relative URL for a link, TinyMCE will automatically create an absolute link, which I don't want)? What about FCK Edit, is it any good?
  • Is there a module that allows private messages between users (as seen in many forums and boards)?
  • Is there a way users can leave comments on the profile pages of other users (just like commenting articles/nodes)?
  • Is there a way to implement a "last visited by" function for user profiles (i.e. users should see a list of which other users recently visited their profile)?
  • Which module is best for creating simple buddy lists?

Any input is appreciated!

- Dio

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Comments

dman’s picture

dman commented
  1. You should do it with css. Or nicemenus.module can do it for you
  2. Not sure, see next
  3. You probably want to look into organic groups module. It's not exactly what you describe, but it's better.
  4. all wysiwygs are assorted flavours of evil.
  5. enable the contact module for profiles
  6. dunno. Don't. MySpace sucks.
  7. MySpace sucks.
  8. MySpace sucks.

.dan.
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brenda003’s picture

brenda003
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commented

Buddylist module, private msg module (sorry dunno links), there's a module called guestbook I think for commenting on profiles. Just do a search for them. Everything you want is doable, except maybe need custom module for automatically assigning roles.