Installing Drupal

Hi,

I'm trying to set up Drupal 4.1 on a Win2k shared host. So far it has gone surprisingly well, considering my lack of PHP experience (especially running under IIS). One problem, though. index.php pops a warning because magic_quotes_gpc is set to "1" on my host's PHP.INI file.
Is there a way I could possibly code arround this? Or, would changing this setting in the PHP.INI file be something a hosting company would object to doing on a shared server?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Mailhandler blogs don't show up in the submission queue. So, before I go digging through code, can anyone point out why this is?

Thanks for your time.

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If I post a story as admin and approve it, how do I get it to show up on the front page for all users? As it is now, I can't see the story until I log in, and I need to change this behavior so that everyone can see posted stories.

I would like to add several fields to the user profile and store the infomation in a different table (other than the user table). I have looked at the information about the module_user hook but don't understand how it works. I think this is what I would like to use but could someone give me a better example of how to use the hook than what can be found in the Drupal help pages?

Hello. I'm trying to get the mailhandler module working on my site. I've created an account on my pop3 server called mailhandler.

I've tested the pop3 account with Evolution. It works. So, rule out any possibility of pop daemon misconfiguration.

I inserted the mailhandler.mysql table into my drupal database.

Checked the table. Table looks fine.

Enabled the mailhandler module.

I'm not sure if it's a bug or if I set it up wrong. When I enable the profile module, it makes the Avatar field required even if I don't mark it as required. And even if I upload a picture, it still says that it is missing. Has anyone encountered this problem with this module? Is there an updated version?

Thanks.