Installing Drupal

hi,

I'm new to Drupal, and I'm loving it...

Since there's no "shoutbox" module available (a feature very dear to my users), I "adapted" a script I was using before so the user name is automatically inserted in the "shout"... I basically put the script output inside an Iframe, and the form to submit the shouts outside it, so I can insert the user name in a <hidden> tag (to stop anonymous postings)

I created a php block with the following code:

global $user;
if ($user->uid) {
return ("<IFRAME name=Bocas marginWidth=0 marginHeight=0 src=\"/bocas/viewshoutbox.php\" frameBorder=0 width=170 scrolling=auto height=300></IFRAME>
<br>
<br>
<form name=sbx action=/bocas/shoutbox.php target=Bocas>
<input type=hidden name=action value=add>
<input type=hidden name=nick value=" . $user-> name ." title=Nome>
<input type=text name=shout size=22 maxlength=120 value=\"\" class=editbox title=Bitaite>
<input type=submit name=Submit value=enviar class=button>
</form>");
}

The problem is that all the extended characters submitted by the form are being replaced as follows:

ç -> ç
ã -> ã
à -> Ã
é -> é
è -> è
ó -> ó
º -> º
ê -> ê

and so on... (I'm Portuguese, and we have a lot of extended characters)

Also, I'm almost absolutely sure I've seen this elsewhere in my test site (the same were I'm using this "hack" I'm having problems with), this time in a Drupal "native" feature, but can't remember where...

Firstly, I have to say that this newly discovered "Drupal" is *really cool* - seriously.

Got a glitch though. I've set up forums and all looks good. But when a non-admin user posts a new comment, the comment gets stored in the comments table and the user is told "Your post will appear once it's been accepted". All good.

Trouble is, that new forum comments just seem to "vanish". The view_submissions link, I now see, only looks at create_content/node submissions. So I'm not surprized to not find the new forum comment in there.

I found some people on the forums who had this problem, but no one who got an answer ... I've installed Drupal on a rather restrictive web host, but I've got .htaccess going and everything seems fine--except when I go to Home » administer » configuration » modules. It's just blank. No output whatsoever. I can't find any database errors, there are no messages being caught by the watchdog module. What's going on? More importantly, how do I fix it?

Environment: Drupal 4.3.2; PHP 4.3.2; MySQL 3.23.49; Apache 1.3.27

I have a few Drupal powered sites up and running, sometimes I forget what version of Drupal is being run on which site, which makes updating difficult.

Is it possible to find out what version of Drupal I have installed?

When I use copy and paste function to copy article from other format,like doc,txt,html.It can not break line automatically,I need break the line manually. Is there any function to to do it?

Bye the way,How can I post code(c,Java,perl...etc) easy? is there any tag like MT?

Thank you

I finally had a chance to test my site from a remote computer, and it didn't work. I could see the home page but my title image was unavailable, and all of the following pages were also unavailable. For example, when I try to log in, I get an error page that tells me that the page is unavailable. The URL is also strange. Instead of being http://my_site/login, the URL looks more like this: http:///login. I have my /includes/conf.php base_url set to "". Should that be set to /drupal-4.3.2? Or /srv/www/htdocs/Drupal-4.3.2? I'm not exactly sure what to set it to.