Installing Drupal

I'm looking at Drupal as the basis of a blogging community. I'd like to know if Drupal will support the following items. If an add-on or hack is required to make it work, please let me know.

I appreciate any feedback you might offer prior to my installing Drupal so that I can play with it myself. This community will NOT be for techies, so, it needs to work similarly to other blogging systems and be easy for the blog owner to manage his own blog.

1. Can Drupal be set up to allow each registered user to have their own blog? That is, each user can make their own entries, authorize others to make entries, and control who can make comments (public, community members, or private list of members).

2. Can each user set the theme for their blog and have all of the visitors to the blog see the blog owner's theme? (This is NOT a universal theme where a member sets their theme and then everything is displayed according to the member's theme! This would display according to the settings of the owner of each blog.)

3. What support does Drupal have for blogging specific features such as trackback, pingback, post by email, post using one of the desktop blog posting tools, etc.)

4. Can Drupal be configured to automatically create a blog for each person when they join?

5. Does Drupal allow the blog owner to upload images to their blog entries?

6. Can Drupal be configured so that comments are listed in ascending or descending chronological order instead of nested?

DB_QUERY FUNCTION

Although I've used bigint type in my table, db_query function inserts int type ..

Example:

create table table_1
( number bigint(20) );

db_query('INSERT INTO table_1 values(%d)',$my_number);

it always insert with respect the normal integer range.
when number > 2,147,483,648 it inserts 2,147,483,648

When I used
db_query('INSERT INTO table_1 values('$my_number'));
it inserts correct value..

Somebody knows where i can find this module?thanks a lot and happy new year

I have a problem with chatbox,when i click on the link "join the chatbox" the browser open a blank page and i can't understeand why...i've already posted this announce but no one answer me...and second thing,if enabled the block for the pop-ups,the page isn't open....please help me!!

This is kind of stupid, but how can I edit my site's title. My url adress seems to be the title but i want to edit that.
Thanks in advance

Hi,

The EduTech Mauritius project is currently developing its new website using the Drupal CMS due to its rich features, modularity and ease of use. Currently, the development site is at http://dev2.edutech.mu with plans to migrate to http://edutech.mu once all integration and testing is finished.

After configuring news feed, a crontab entry was created to automate regular updates. Unfortunately, we are encountering the following error:

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Subject: Cron wget -O - -q http://dev2.edutech.mu/cron.php
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:

user error: Unknown column 'u.nid' in 'group statement'
query: SELECT r.nid, r.timestamp, u.uid, u.name, u.mail, n.* FROM remindme_node
r INNER JOIN node n ON r.nid = n.nid INNER JOIN users u ON n.uid = u.uid WHERE n
.status = 0 AND r.timestamp > 0 AND 1072761541 + r.timestamp > 1072858688
GROUP BY u.nid, n.nid in /home/www/dev2.edutech.mu/includes/database.mysql.inc o
n line 90.

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It would seem that the field u.nid is "unknown. Your cooperation with resolving this issue will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Kwang Poon
EduTech.mu