Drupal 6.x

Hi all,

I'm upgrading to D7 from D6, and finding it incredibly difficult. My site makes heavy use of three modules, which have disappeared:

* audio: has moved into core, but doesn't seem to have all the functionality there. I also have to run a rather sketchy experimental module from someone's git repo to migrate content (http://drupal.org/sandbox/jenlampton/1761334 - I'm saying sketchy as I had to twiddle version numbers to get it to run, and it's not entirely clear whether it worked or not yet).

* img_assist: hasn't been ported, looks like it won't be, and there doesn't exist a sensible replacement (works concisely in non-WYSIWYG, has useful options to pop up images, lightbox etc.). There is a port, but it's unmaintained, only linked on a semi-dead forum post (http://drupal.org/node/841568) and I don't know if it works. There are also scripts to turn everything into HTML so that might be the way to go. But it's certainly not as nice to work with.

* mediawiki_filter: unported, although a possibly-good version of it is kicking around.

I understand that mediawiki was never official. But, at the time, all three seemed to be the best practise for their respective tasks. Now, it seems to be impossible to upgrade my site - I've spent many, many hours reading posts, trying updates etc. And I haven't even looked at more advanced bits of the site.

I've noticed that syncing doesn't seem to help/not help when a dev server: clears cache, dumps sql file. Then, on a live server, caches are cleared then the previous sql file is imported into the live database.

All the info is the same and the caches are usually about 99% the same (save for a change during the import).

So, what kind of issues can I expect or should I look for if syncing doesn't happen?

There is never a time where one dump is loaded into another database with any significant time lapse occurs between the dump and import.

Looking for a module or related that could store and list books.
Possibly allow data for who checked out the book, when, etc.

Something real simple, not like a huge library management system for a school library.

This is a small library of books and movies for a non-profit organization.
Maybe 200 books/videos.

Possibly user request, but can be done vie email form.

Thanks for any suggestions!

How to enable adding comments only for user of certain role (moderator) on nodes market by certain taxonomy term?

Case study:
There is forum category where public can ask questions. If is forum post marked by category "about project" only user with "admin role" can post comments (answer).

Which solution would you use?

Hello,

And i would like to add a 'Contact the author' button (for 2 content types) that would link to the user's contact page.
I'm using Bartik, so i tried looking inside the node.tpl file but there is only a $submitted; variable that is printed.
I'm completely new to drupal theming and my php skills are basic.

Can anyone explain how i can print a link to the author's contact page ?

Thank a lot

Hello,

I installed simplenews, defined it to send HTML mail but it continues sending my mails in plain text format.
I have installed both HTML mail modules (and it sends HTML mail when testing) and MIME mail, but didn't help.

What more do I need to configure?