By drekka on

Hi all,
I've been playing with drupal for a couple of hours now and frankly I'm not happy.

1. database.mysql failed to load into mysql 5. basic problem was lack of defaults on the block table caused replace commands to fail.

2. No theme and a very ugly site when it did final come up. Found a reference to the problem in the FAQs that fixed it, but had to do some digging and this would be enough to scare quite a few customers off.

3. Wasted a large amount of time trying to figure on why all most forum and blog posts never came up. Finally found through the events logs that despite Drupal telling me they had gone, in fact they where failing with another sql error. Yeup same again, lack of defaults on a table and the insert sqls trying to put nulls into not null fields.

ciao
Derek

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.6.x

Comments

boris mann’s picture

boris mann commented

MySQL 5 has some issues with the 4.6 release, as noted in the system requirements (and the associated error 1364).

FYI: The original 4.6 release came out almost a year ago, and we are currently in beta/RC status for Drupal 4.7, which has full support for MySQL 5.

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liquidcms commented

i must admit.. when i started with Drupal.. about a month ago.. i was pretty disappointed... but a client of mine said i need to use it.. so i trudged on...

and likely this isn't much solice... but a month later and i am designing my own modules, my own themes, committing code, fixing other modules, etc and doing clients sites using drupal..

I have used other OS CMS systems before... but as people told me when i started with drupal... the code is VERY clean.. and the modular architecture is vastly superior to other CMSs i have seen...

this forum is relatively responsive and i think the architectural concepts are very strong.. both very important in selecting a CMS to call home...

a few things missing still (voc/term concept is incorrect, imho, and themeing/template support could be better).. but suspect they will get there over time...

i still do battle with it... but then i haven't dropped it yet... and suspect i'll be doing a few more sites with it..

good luck...

Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Solution Experts

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Fusion_Sushi commented

"You can always find the storm by listening for the Thunder."

jasonwright’s picture

jasonwright commented

Hi,

Yes, Drupal can be somewhat daunting in the beginning, but well worth the learning curve!

I used to use Joomla, nice templates, but got frustrated with lack of functionality and never went back... Drupal has superior functionality through its MANY modules.

Hope you hang in there!

Later,

Jay