Drupal 7.x

I've been learning on Drupal 7. I've already had to update several modules, some more than once. What is the "best practice" for having to update something that everything else depends on like "views" or "ctools" or WYSIWIG? I'm concerned that I might lose data that I created or fields that were created in these modules. Is that unfounded?

I'm building a college website, I need to make exams results accessible online; every student (authenticated user or role) could view his and only his results, is there any modules that can do that ?
PS: I find gradebook but there isn't a D7 version yet.

The aim of my project is to create an online help-centre for my company...

what I want is the following,

a "front page" for any user to use where there is a search area containing a field to search for questions (that autocompletes as the user types), and a drop down menu to select a help area "technical", "sales", "HR", "Payroll" etc... - this should default to All Areas.

Underneath this search area I want an area where the top 5 asked questions are displayed OR if the user has selected a help area the top 5 questions within that help area are displayed OR if the user has entered a question the related questions are displayed. In each case, i want it so the user can click on a question to display the answer in a light-box type pop-up.

These two boxes along with a welcome title and logo are all that is to be displayed...

I also want to have a backend where a registered user must login to access. Once logged in, the backend should be tabbed.

One tab will be for "Content Management" where users with this permission can add/edit/delete content - similar layout to the front end. The user will be able to search as in the front end except this time the question/answer/tags etc are displayed in fields that can be edited..

Hey there,

I just installed Drupal 7.4 and I am having problem posting info on the website. When I tried to include special characters and korean characters, it gave errors similar to the one below...

Are there any documented guidelines as to how different modules can (and likely should) interact? I know that modules are typically around implementing hooks to get into Drupal, but how does one module interact with another directly?

An example... Let's say I have a chunk of code that interacts with a back end system that controls widgets. This 'library' of code allows me to create, update, and delete widgets from this external system. The interaction with this external service is complex, so I don't want to duplicate my code across all Drupal modules I'm creating. I'd rather have one module called 'Widget Controller', and list it as a dependency for the various modules I'm writing.

From a module perspective, it's easy to define this through the various .info files. But where do I go from here? How can 'module 1' make a call to the Widget Controller's 'wc_create_widget()' method? Can I just make the call (will it even work?), or is there a more appropriate way of doing it? Do I have to do a 'module_load_include' first to make the code available?

What about configuration? My Widget Controller would have a configuration page to specify the back end parameters necessary to connect. I wouldn't want to duplicate that setting repeatedly either...

Hello

Right now i have picture in my header, but i was thinking of replacing it with flash application which is interactive drawing board :)
so i have drawing.swf application which i created and i would like to put it into header
the question is
How? Could you help me? :)