Drupal 7.x

Hi everyone,

I am lost in Drupal 6 that I've installed and used for years now ... even had v5 before, but never got Drupal to do all I need.

Here is what I would like to do :

1. Personal Blog with simple user registration (no confirmation by mail needed, but captcha when registering). My family members aren't geeks...

2. Newsletter : I just want my folks to know when I post a new message or new pictures. Finally had to create a miling list on my Yahoo account. Cron system is horrible on IIS and Windows Server.

3. Bilingual : my website needs to be in french and spanish. I translate every message I post, but I wouldn't like that my spanish folks comments would only be visible from them. My french folks should comment along my messages with them...

4. Image gallery : I have thousands pics online, but I want people to log on my blog to avoid any pervert from taking children pictures from me or having them indexed by Google image. I use JAlbum Desktop version today to have a really simple way of posting and organizing galleries (sub levels, videos, etc.). I also have comments enabled on every single image, automated slideshow, with simple navigation. flat html pages are generated by this software on a subfolder of drupal arborescence. I'd like a more integrated gallery keeping the simple way of using it (posting files that are auto indexed).

- Screenshot: http://images.codepad.eu/vi-LzqHrF.png

I am not sure how to change language to Dutch. I don't mind the Quiz to be partially in English.

Also, I have a multi-lingual quiz in PHP. Is there any way I can use it instead? It consists of simply 2 files "quiz_english.php" and "quiz_dutch.php".

There are valid cases where one needs to join with or select from an anonymous table, like this (silly) example:

SELECT uid FROM users WHERE name='foo' UNION SELECT 0

While this can be done in D7 with db_query(), I can't find any way to do this using db_select(), because "SELECT 0" isn't derived from a table.

i have a weird problem with the translation

site.parapsy.ro it's my website that i'm building

when i create a node translation it rewrites the original node with the translation.
i use 4 languages, if i edit any translation of a node, the node will have the same body in all 4 languages.

I am having a weired issue with aligning the search box and the user menu vertically in the header (D7 with Zen theme). If I put Search Box before User menu (with superfish) in block configuration, everything works perfect both in IE and firefox, but if I put User menu before Search box, for some reason, they align inline in IE (still works well in firefox).

Do anybody here know why's that?

Hi,
I am a beginner for the drupal environment. I know the basic of creating a content, block, and getting those using views.
I would like to create a new website in drupal. What i need to do for that. Is there any reference for that?