Drupal 6.x

Hi There,

I would normally say CMS, forget it. Much better to go from scratch - CMS is good, but if you want to customise to any great degree, you're stuck.

Well Im just developing a module for work and loving it! I got the core of the guts in there. Im developing our own customised Podcast and RSS feed for the podcast. I tried the same thing in Joomla a few months back and got no where fast. Even the new Joomla 1.5, im finding extra divs installed, and extra span tags for no apparently reason.

Within a couple of hours, apart from display wise - the basic framework is there and sort of working. And it doesn't monkey around with your code.

Im really really impressed by Drupal and many thanks must go to the developers!

Any how, I find I have some random questions.

Following how other people have created modules, it seems a new node type is created. Im not sure whether I like that or not. Im not sure whether I like people accessing individual database entries by hand. I guess everything is node based. I think I've come to the conclusion that for my module, I don't want users manually browsing these node types. Is it possible to remove them from search lists and from this kind of access?

Using the forms, I also need a way to be able to upload a file. Does anyone have the appropriate code for the form hook?

Im just about getting to grips with hooks etc.

The majority of my site is based around a non-node module that I've hooked in to Drupal's search mechanism. Unfortunately, the search forms all still default to the node search, which doesn't work for me - nodes are only used for the help pages, user profiles, etc.

How can I make my module's search form be the default?

First off, my thanks to whomever has the time to answer this question. I've been looking for a solution for a few weeks, to no avail.

I am wanting to create a site dedicated to pen and paper gaming. Specifically, I want people to be able to fill out a character sheet on the site and then be able to save it so others can see it. So there would be fields for such things as Strength, Intelligence, Charisma, etc. The user could input numerals or dots in the fields of the character sheets as well as text for a character history.
Other features of importance:

I am going from the latest 5.x.whatever... just updated, and can't remember the latest numbers.

Anyway.... I've been trying to upgrade to 6.0 and these are the error messages I receive:

On first page of update.php:

Warning: Unknown column 'language' in 'where clause' query: SELECT src FROM url_alias WHERE dst = 'node' AND language IN('en', '') ORDER BY language DESC in /home/*myaccount*/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 128

Followed by:

* warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/*myaccount*/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc:128) in /home/*myaccount*/public_html/includes/common.inc on line 141.
* warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/*myaccount*/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc:128) in /home/*myaccount*/public_html/includes/common.inc on line 141.

Next page shows the same errors.

Then I come to the next page and just get this error:

Warning: Unknown column 'language' in 'where clause' query: SELECT src FROM url_alias WHERE dst = 'node' AND language IN('en', '') ORDER BY language DESC in /home/*myaccount*/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 128

And nothing else. Not even a theme loads up. The rest is a blank page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Have a great day!

Using Drupal 6.x, I've set the default time zone for the system to US/Central. The server itself is set to US/Central. Users are not able to set their own time zones. When I post a story, the time is displayed as GMT. (My zone +6).

Help. My head is about to explode.

I'm a longtime Joomla user, but I'm using Drupal for a blog site. How can I get the authors' image (the one they use in profile) to come up in the blog?