Login broken

I've seen a lot of posts related to this, but none of them have helped solve the problem.
A few hours ago our login system stopped working. Nothing was changed in the system between the last login and the first time it was broken. Basically I keep getting username/password wrong when I know the password is correct (I'm trying immediately after resetting it). Actually there's no message on the screen, just the username box gets a red border, so I guess it thinks the username is incorrect, which we know to not be the case.

installing mediafront in drupal 7

http://www.mediafront.org/drupalconsf
There is an excellent screencast on the mediafront site detailing how to install it on drupal 6. I am trying to move into drupal 7, and there are some notes above the presentation that indicate things are changing.
"Important Note: The views setup has changed since these videos have been recorded. Instead of creating a Media Player Page display or Media Player Block display, you will instead just create a normal Page display with a Style of Media Player. The same goes for the block, except you will create a Block display with a Media Player style. You also no longer need to add the MediaFront : Preset field."

I found this page also useful, but some parts are missing ( in step 2 ) and it also seems more oriented around drupal 6 than 7, even though its mentioned at the top. In step 5, it talks about adding a field to the view. from what I am seeing, once you change the view style, it makes it so it doesn't use fields.
http://www.mediafront.org/documentation/drupalmediafront-osm-cms-integra...
edit: I dont know if it was the order in which I built up the view, but I ended up later seeing the fields area enabled, and using that to select the files. I am stuck now though, I have a player showing, but the video areas are blank.

install module without running FTP

Hi folks,

I have an installation of Drupal 7 running locally on my Mac. Everything is fine, but when I go to install a module, I am prompted to enter FTP credentials. I don't have FTP running on this machine.

Can you install a module on a machine that's not running FTP?

EDIT
Sorry, forget I said this. I just enabled FTP and it immediately worked. I thought it wouldn't find the right directory due to my virtual hosts setup...

Doh.

Newbie question on approach to data structure

Hi,

First I should note that I am very new to web development! Therefore any help (and patience) would be very much appreciated.

I am attempting to create an custom node for users to create an 'event' page (say, for a squash ladder). I want the node to contain a table with details of the people taking part and their rankings etc. My problem is that I need to have a node for each event (or a custom entity if needed), but I also want a sub table elegantly tied to it.

So far I have thought through two possible ways of doing this, but I don't quite have the understanding to work out how to implement them / determine the correct approach.

The first approach I tried was to create a new database table based on a schema for each event, and a separate node for the event. The aim was to tie the two together by noting the table name as a field for the node, but this seems messy / possibly not very secure. Also, I have had trouble converting a form value to a new node field value.

I should note that this is very rough, so I haven't dealt with access permissions or other details yet.


function _ladders_add_form_to_database($form, &$form_state) {
global $user;
$user_id = $user->uid;
$new_table_name = t(str_replace(' ', '_','ladder_'.$user_id.'_'.$form_state['values']['ladder_name']));

Calendar with events

Hi,
I need to create a block for displaying a calendar. And the events that happened at a particular date should be displayed under that calender. Once you click or roll over a certain date, it should display the events that happened at that particular date.
See an example http://www.dropmocks.com/mVmeE

I tried to do this with modules Views and Calendar, but it doesn't work. Maybe I need other modules?

Question with installation

I apologize in advance but whenever i am working on one of these cms for a client I end up spending hours and hours just searching through forums to see if a question has been answered already - so it may have been but I couldn't find it -

When I install drupal - in order for it to take the database I have to 1. enable remote in the phpmyadmin
2. enter the remote web address and port number

then it installs fine. this is the second time this is installing in this way.

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