Drupal 7.x

Hi,

I'm kind of stuck in Drupal 7 calendar block and I'm hoping someone can help me.

I created field date that shows when the event is happening.

However in default view for calendar is listed on the date that they created, not the date they're taking place (using field_date).

When I try to change it to show by event date it's giving me errors.
I was able to do this easily in Drupal 6, but with 7 I'm stuck.

After running a few up dates I then was clicking to a different part of my site when i got "The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later." Now i cannot get into my site. No other error is shown.

Notice: unserialize() [function.unserialize]: Error at offset 2 of 8 bytes in variable_initialize() (line 749 of /home/h29638/data/www/xxxxxxxxx/includes/bootstrap.inc).

The above error had shown (two instances one for each line the error occured) a few times below the web site encountered an unexpected error, error but now no longer shows up.

I want to be able to access different page elements in the page array to use in the node.tpl.php file. With all the options such as template process, preprocess function, hook_page_alter() and all the rest, what is the best way to work with variable in the node.tpl.php file. For example, how do I best move a block region into the node.tpl.php variables? Do I create a separate module to manage this code or does it belong in the template.php file?

I've read most of the documentation and I can't find much that talks about this.

I have all my menu path directiong to which is not what I want, I would like each of my menu item is a stand along page. For example, new is news not . I tried to enter news and . The error The path '' is either invalid or you do not have access to it. keep popping up. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thank you

I've been theming a new install of Drupal 7 with no content and only a handful of modules, but now when I try to access the site it just hangs for about 1-3 minutes before Chrome will display it's own error page as if the server is down, Firefox eventually displays a completely blank page with no source code at all. The server is up and fine, I just can't get to drupal pages.

I have been searching for ages for a decent video gallery for Drupal 7. Does anyone know of one?

What I need is a Drupal component into which you put YouTube URLs and then insert into a block. A 'lightbox' type video gallery is produced.

Any one know of one?
thanks