Installing Drupal

Does anyone know how I can send a short message to all the registered members of my site? I found the "notify" module, but I don't really see how it can be used to generate a custom message. It seems to be more of a message letting members know that the site's been updated? I am a little confused. Thanks...S

I have successfully implemented a few 4.2 sites, but now I'd like to upgrade to 4.3. I haven't found any good instructions, but I did give it a go. I moved the sql to the new site, then installed 4.3.0, edited conf.php, and executed the script on update.php starting from the default date (4/30/03, I think). Now, the site seems to work, but there are some warnings occasionally and also there is a strange problem on the sidebars where anything that should show a price (i.e. starts with a dollar sign) appears incorrectly. Any thoughts? Did I do it incorrectly? Thanks

I'm curious as to way number of seconds since 1972 was chosen for the internal date represenation rather then one of the Datetime data types available in almost all database implementations? It would seem to me that using the later would facilitate doing data manipulations in SQL queries (getting nodes in last x days and the like).

Hi all, I have just installed the htmlarea module on my Drupal 4.3.0.



But I'm not sure I've done this right.



On the installation instructions, it says, apply patch drupal.diff to standard drupal source.. What does this exactly mean ??? I have done the following:



patch -pO -u < drupal.diff

Where does it come from? What is this type of icon (beside the url) called?

what is the field of en,fr,nl,etc meaning,each one is for a language?
but i do not need so many language to use, can i delete some of them?

thanks!