General discussion

Regarding this page: http://drupal.org/book/view/871

I have been working on template system that allows a DESIGNER to slightly mark up the html and then my PHP code re-factors the design as a PHP class, with the various design elements becoming different methods of the class, even supporting parameter passing.

Well now I've finished I'm working on a back end. Then I read slashdot about drupal

The best part is Drupal USES this sort of class as my code generates.

In other words it wont take much work to fettle to two together.

And the good news is I can use drupal as my backend!

BTW it also supports dreamweaver MX templating, so designers can do dreamweaver MX tempate inheritance to get the visual effect at design time for their benefit (and allowing designer to only edit the editable-area) and we inherit generated classes also.

Read the docs at:
http://www.liddicott.com/templates.html

If there is enough interest I would like to check it in to CVS (under GPL) for integration. I'm supposed to be adding it to PEAR's Flexy::Tempalate with Alan Knowles but I haven't had time yet.

TO be sure you understand, the templating is ready to go and already used in a non-launched site that just needs a CMS backend, now to be drupal I hope

So I've seen the HTML Area module which allows text-fields to accept html input, but AFAIK I don't see an html editor built into drupal for helping users edit their posts. It seems like a good idea for a module (I'd rather not see it built into drupal). Has anyone worked on one?

Hi!
Somebody in Russia make sites on Drupal engine?

Русские пользователи Drupal, откликнитесь! Предлагаю объединяться :) Отвечайте здесь или на axel@linuxrulez.ru

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Axel

Thought I would post a thread from another forum at opensourceCMS.com -- a cool site that allows users to test and compare different OS php projects.

here's the here

I have this wierd notion of a drupal network that I'd like to express somewhere, and this forum seemed like the best place.

The idea is that drupal sites, already able to share content and communicate with each other, could help each other out in times of heavy traffic or peak demand, serving up images and cached pages for each other. Here are a couple of scenarios to help describe the potential.

First, consider the dean campaign's drupal network. For review, there is an extensive roll-out of drupal based sites for sharing and diseminating campaign information. These web sites have a common goal, are already sharing content with each other and have an interest in seeing each other perform well. Theoretically, if one of the sites got slammed, they could publish their cache to other sites and redirect some of their requests to these sites.

Next, consider drupal sites with no relationship other than the platform they run on. These sites might be willing to contribute some of their bandwidth and memory to a generic pool or cache in exchange for support during heavy traffic, network or server problems.

In contrast to other techniques for managing load and congestion on small sites this looks pretty desireable. In fact as I see it, there are only two other options; pay for a high end hosting solution, or ask your users for help ala BitTorrent.

This may have been discussed before and I apologize if so. It would be usefull to keep memory of when (timestamp, date-time whatever) a user registers in a Drupal site. Could we add a field for this in the 'users' table ?

Thanx

Paolino
jid/email: paolino@tipi.com
www.motime.com