Installing Drupal

I'm the tech admin of a student newspaper, and I would like to try drupal as a website engine. Things we need:
- the ability to publish for everyone, possibly with no comments allowed but that's not sure
- a private site where editors can prepare for publishing
- the ability to have certain editors approve or disprove of articles
- the ability to publish deadlines, etc...
It's pretty specialised application, but I have the feeling Drupal will let me handle it. Am I right? Does anyone have experience at this one?

I've been unable still to has my site listed on drupal sites page here at www.drupal.org. I often see this error message in my watchdog:

failed to notify 'www.drupal.org' at '/xmlrpc.php': XML error: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 15

Any ideas? at least in how I could debug this...

I'm using drupal-4.3.1

I'm trying to display random background images in my xtemplate #header.

If it helps, I have http://cookedgamers.net/themes/xtemplate/images/banner/image.php spitting out file names of image files that I wish to use in the #header.

Does php run inside the .xtmpl file? I can't get php to run inside my .css file.

I feel I'm missing something very obvious. Can you guys help me out?

Thank you in advance.

I have installed Drupal on a FreeBSD 4.9 machine. Everything seems to be working OK. I can access the homepage (index.php) with no problems, but when I click on 'Create New Account' I am sent to a Index page of my drupal directory. It turns out that every link on the homepage sends me to an index listing instead of the appropriate page. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Doug Penny

I'm using Drupal 4.3.1, and I was getting an error saying that I didn't have permission to view my index.php on my server.

So I searched through the forums and found someone with pretty much the same problem. Through this I learned that it's because of the .htaccess file that this problem exists.

I am trying to use PHP and HTML Forms from a node that is a static page, with PHP enabled.

The node displays the text fields and the button fine, but does not process them when I click on the button. It redirects to the http://mysite.com/node page for some unknown reason.

How can I get this working?

Here is some sample code I am using:

$this_script=$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];

print "fname=$edit['fname'] $fname lname=$edit['lname'] $lname";

if ($edit["fname"] || $edit["lname"])
 {
 // Capitalize the name
 $full_name = ucwords ($edit["fname"] . " " . $edit["lname"]);
 print "Hello! Nice to meet you $full_name...";
 print "Glad to see that you are using my form!";
 }

$form  = form_textfield (t("First Name"), "fname", "", 30, 64);
$form .= form_textfield (t("Last  Name"), "lname", "", 30, 64);
$form .= form_submit    (t("Process"));


print form($form, "post", $this_script);

Any help appreciated.