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Hello,

I am a newbie who installed Drupal 7.7 (Running MAMP 2.0.1 on Mac OSX 10.6.8)
modules I installed (following the course "Beginning Drupal 7" by Apress)
Backup_migrate
cck
ctools
nice_menus
panels
token
views
webform
wysiwyg

Hello all,

I hope you are able to help me with the following problem. I had a perfectly working drupal 7 site until suddenly the site itself wouldn't load any longer and would just view:

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Hello,
I'm trying to load/print the user menu as part of my theme. So far I can do this to get user menu links:

<pre><?php print_r(menu_navigation_links('user-menu')) ?></pre>

I would think this would work but it doesn't (Am I stuck on Drupal 6 somehow?):

<?php print theme('links', menu_navigation_links('user-menu')); ?>

I see nothing rendered. No errors reported. Any thoughts on what I'm missing?

Thanks a ton in advance.

hello,

how do u recommend managing mailing lists in drupal?

now our lists are managed by mailman, but as far as i found all mailman modules are for drupal 6.x or below.. but at the same time i see that drupal.org itself uses mailman mailing lists - anyone has an idea how do they do it?

thx,
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Hi there,

I recently spent an hour researching how to create a default value for a user reference field. I wanted to create a work history for my users which they would fill in themselves. Obviously, the work history needed to reference to the user filling in the form. For the work history content type I had created a user reference field and I was having difficulty working out how to automatically fill it in with the name of the user.

There seemed to be three approaches:

1. Use a PHP snippet in the default value field for the content type.
2. Use the Prepopulate module.
3. Use hook_form_alter.

The first option was not available to me because I'm using Drupal 7, and Drupal 7, as far as I know, doesn't allow PHP snippets in the default value field for fields unlike Drupal 6.

The second option is helpfully outlined at CCK user reference auto complete by Radiating Gnome and also by N1ckhead at User Reference.