General discussion

I was wondering if there is an easy way to keep your drupal installation up to date with the current cvs branch (e.g. 4.6).

I noticed recently that some modules got updated since my last installation of the site, although everything stays on 4.6. Has somebody tried to keep hies site up to date by using cvs for example? (so not by downloading the new tarballs over and over again)

thx

luksedj

Pretty new to Drupal, but not to commercial CMS systems; i'm stuck at the start.

I'm typically one of those people who work best from an example or being shown how something works in real life (not just on paper). Once I'm out of the blocks I'm OK but until then I'm a frustrated user of the system. It seems that there are a few people on the forums like me where getting started is a problem (ex. http://drupal.org/node/28844).

I just stumbled upon this:

http://www.web-udvikling.dk/uploads/comparison.pdf

which seems to be a report comparing Drupal to XOOPS and other systems.
Note that the author is heavily involved in the XOOPS community.

Best
Gunnar

Hi,
I'm in the process of changing Hosts.

With the new Host I can run php5 or php4.

I know Drupal now runs on php5, but I don't know enough to know I why I would want or need to run php5.

Could anyone offer a pros and cons summary?

Thanks
J

PS: I also made a heads-up post about DreamHost today, that is worth a look if you are looking to relocate too, in the near future. They're offering 80% off.

hello!

a lot of posts say one must add a root node if one needs to do smth like this

http://domain.tld/directions
http://domain.tld/about
http://domain.tld/contact

etc

How to go about and create it. Not necessarily interested in how to create root node, if it does not meet end result of creating
'direct links'

Thanks

-albunix

I'm asking myself "why am I here [on drupal.org]?" The reasons are purely philosophical.

Being new to internet technology (at least the guts of it), I think it may be worthwhile to step back and ask for help to understand the bigger picture of available choices.

I want to create web applications in addition to an interactive, dynamic website--unless I misunderstand and they are the same. I also would like help down the road by making my work an open source project (modules, etc.).

But I want to know whether I have any big misunderstandings about just what Drupal can or cannot ever help me do.

Based on my very limited understanding, these are conclusions I've come to. I'm thinking I need to use Apache (though a recent post on lighttpd got my attention). Strongly tempted to use FreeBSD. PHP seems a popular, feature-rich, and fast web scripting language, and I prefer it over perl, java, python, based on limited knowledge of them. I don't want to learn Java. A CMS seems a way to get functionality without having to program it myself. PEAR is available. Yahoo has used PHP for its web applications. I cannot evaluate whether to prefer an objected-oriented PHP or procedural PHP approach. I can supplement PHP and Apache with custom code programmed in C, when speed or security is necessary.

What I do not know is, what can PHP not do? What can companies/organizations with much financial resources do for their websites/web applications and is PHP a tool they would rely on? I ask that last question because, I hope my project will scale quickly and that its depth and complexity will also increase quickly, so I need to know if my basic conclusions will allow me to accomplish that. As you see, this isn't really a question about Drupal, per se, but just the category that Drupal fits in: a PHP CMS. I truly have an open mind, since I know so little.