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By ggevalt on
Being a relative newcomer to this world, I hope you forgive me....I've got a few issues and questions I'd love help with...
Just as a FYI, I operate a non-profit organization (in my basement) that works to help kids learn to write better. We are a collaboration of professional writers, teachers, students, journalists and newspapers. I developed the present site off HTML; it works fine but needs to be much more dynamic. I am now working on the next generation site for this fall. I've learned a lot about Drupal and like it. Now I am doing the trial and error method which, I find, is not a bad way to learn, but it is slow to be sure.
I've managed to load up the Drupal 4.7 and have gotten it working well and looking pretty good. (Thanks to Walt for helping me find some installation info I needed.)
1) I am finding that with 4.7 a number of modules can't be configured...I get an error message when I attempt to do so. For instance, here's one I got when I tried to establish settings for Acidfree:....Fatal error: Call to undefined function: form_select() in /home/youngwri/public_html/drupal/modules/acidfree/acidfree.module on line 295...
The same thing has with SUBMISSIONS, Gallery, poormanscron and a few others....
I'm not sure this is the right place to ask, but is this something that is because 4.7 is in scheduled release level and is not formally released and these modules haven't been modified yet? Or are there some fixes out there I can try?
Two other questions:
2) Is there a way to set up a more complex permission system that would allow me to define multiple levels of users who were given multiple levels of entry into the site?
3) And are their modules that improve the forums -- so far I get the sense that Drupal's forum modules (even in 4.7) are rather simplistic; I have been trying out phpBB and like the level of privacy/protection, etc in that program. I need to be particularly sensitive given that I have kids of all ages coming to the site.
Any help out there would be appreciated.
Geoffrey Gevalt
The Young Writers Project (Vermont)
http://www.youngwritersproject.org
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Some answers
That sounds like the kind of error you'd get if you tried a module written for 4.6 on a Drupal 4.7 site.
Yep. Drupal has the ability to create multiple roles (groups of users) with different access rights.
Also there are many add on modules for allowing different nodes to have their own access rights - eg taxonomy_access or organic groups etc etc.
You'll have to be more specific about what exactly it is you want, but there ways to have private forums. See above.
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Where can we find 4.7 specific modules?
Well.. i have the same problem and i'd the say the cause is the one you mentioned (modules written for 4.6), but where can i find modules that were written specificaly for *or at least compatible with 4.7* coz the modules download section list all modules as compatible with 4.7?
On the download page
you have to select the filter by version that you need. The lists are different and the download links change depending on which version you select.
eg if you filter by 4.6 you get download links for the 4.6 versions, and if you select 4.7 you get the 4.7 download links.
The CVS versions could be either 4.6 or 4.7 (or possibly even 4.5), you'd have to dig a bit further on the modules project page for clues as to which API version they are written for. But I wouldn't recommend using CVS versions unless you know what you are doing anyway.
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