Blog: Development

A letter to the editor feature is essentially an extended petition where you collect names and messages, but instead of just storing them, you also send them off to the email address of whatever paper the user chooses. From a functionality standpoint the only semi-difficult part is handling the email addresses of newspapers, the rest of the functionality exists all over.

Relations can take place between many different items in Drupal. Items can be content, users, categories, or other. The fruits of relations could be represented in many different ways including embedded links on story pages showing related stories, a block in the sidebar showing related terms to the current article you are reading, a user's buddylist showing related users, or in other words, the user's buddies, a graphical map representing FOAF or sixth degree relations between users on a site, a list of nodes that refer to a given file in the Drupal files directory, a list of users who are attendees to an event...