General discussion

I am trying to print, say the user information box, into a line of text with links associated. So, a plain line layout version of the box would be it, right? But I am not sure what should I edit to create something similar to the box.

Any suggestion would be greatly appreicated!

Thank you.

I have been using phpbb, and noticed some of the way phpbb handle posts, which is different from drupal handle node.

I appologize if anybody feel offended by my comparing them. I know Drupal is a great project, that's why I am here. And I am pretty new to Drupal, please feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

All post in phpBB has fields like id, poster (author), last updated, visit counts, etc. as well as subject (title) and post text. phpBB store the regular int or char fields in one table, and the subject and post contents (both are text) in another table. I am wondering if this is because this makes the post table smaller (not much text, most fields are int or char or varchar), and thus faster for regular query for display the list/index etc. It also has topic table which has subject but no content text.

As node is the fundamental type here, it has title, teaser and content, which probably every new type that inherits from it will have to carry, because Drupal is for content management. This is the best choice for content management. But it will become less efficient if it is used for management of items like contacts, directory, etc, which does not have much text content, but many different tiny or small fields.

As it is currently with Drupal, I don't see case where we are creating a node directly, mostly we are creating a story, a static page, or a book page, or other type of node. Thus, it sounds to me it might be faster to query the node table if we move the teaser and body content from node to it's child type, such as story, page, etc. I am not sure how much this will affect the query of node table. Anybody knows database please correct me if I am wrong. But the fact is that node table is the one been queried the most. A smaller node table should make all the queries on node table easier and faster.

taxonomy_dhtml lets me create a nice hierarchical menu. I can't link though to e.g. external sites, the gallery module or a login page. I also like to have a 'login' item when the user isn't logged in and a 'logout' item when he is, without the need for the (in my situation) space-consuming user box.

How would I go about hackin to change the order of "add new comment - read more - administer" on a teaser of a node. I would like to have "read more" first and perhaps even strenghten it with a bold or a larger font since there might be people who just don't notice the "read more". Perhaps this should even be changed in Drupal?

Also I would like to link the Title of the node ("print $node->title;" ) to the node itself, what is the function(?) to link to? something like $node->url?

What about creating the following:

/modules/core

and putting all the core modules there? You've already got 30 modules in the /modules directory ... just seems like it could keep things a little cleaner ...

Also, why aren't the modules in OO (class) format? Why only methods? Granted it works extremely well, is easier to use, blah blah blah ... yet it is still slightly less elegant ... Just curious what people think about this as creating an instance of an object from a class(aka .module) works great as well ... Drupal is very, very nice.

Gerry Lawrence

It seems peculiar to me that each user record has a 255 character signature field, but that this signature is only used on comments posted by the user. Forum topics, blogs, stories, book pages -- none of them display the signature.

Why not? Was there a good reason for this? Seems to me that if the user has entered one, she would probably want to use it most everywhere.