Installing Drupal

Hi,

I'm a long time php developper, and recently discovered drupal.
I think it's great and exactly what i need, but i seem to have troubles understanding the relative link system used in drupal.

I created an example taxonomy and a few pages inside, and now i'm able to create a menu (using the menu module) to link to those pages. For example : taxonomy/page/or/3
seems to point to a subtopic in my taxonomy, listing all pages under that heading.

I'm trying to install drupal in a subdirectory of my site, and I've gotten the database installed. Now when I try to go to the front page, I get:

Parse error: parse error in /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/drupal/index.php on line 4

I'm a Perl guy, really, don't know much about PHP.... Can anybody help?

I've got phpinfo.php running just fine from the same directory, btw.

Has anyone else tried this module and gotten it working? As I noted in search hit on spellcheck where matthias was saying he was taking over this module, it doesn't seem to work at all for me, the popup window goes white for a second, then I end up at the login page - as if my session info didn't make it.
Tried:
window.open('$url&PHPSESSIONID=".session_id()."',...
on line 61 of the spellcheck module, but that didn't help.

i want position 1 & 3 sticked in the frontpage, and other positon can random for story or forum etc,,,
can this work in drupal?
thnx!

Anyone got any tips for installing drupal into /home/user/public_html, so that I can access it as http://host/~user/?

Hi all,
I'm thinking on how to show blocks only in certain pages.
I would like to know where to start from...

The basic idea could be to show the home page with a very basic navigation block, that takes users to show for example stories, weblinks etc.
When I choose stories, I would like to show a block for every vocabulary related to stories, and the same with weblinks, and so on......

Could you please suggest to me some code and where to put it ??

Thanks a lot

Matteo