Drupal 7.x

I am a new Drupal 7 user that has got a Virtual Machine up and running with the help of Drupal Quickstart. I am not a programmer. I have watched some YouTube tutorials and I bought a book. I am just changing the look and function of my first virtual sites.

How do I get more themes and modules into my virtual machine for Drupal to use. Most of the support posts and instructions are way over my head, please keep it simple if you can.

I have downloaded items to my host machine. Where/how do I install or copy them to use them on my VM?

Any other tips or directions?

Hi! I'm starting my first custom Drupal theme and I am using Zen as my parent theme. I added a Subtitle field to the Basic Page content type. Everything is great so far. Now I am looking to display that value in the markup directly under the #page-title. It seems simple enough but I cant seem to figure out how to do this. The Drupal docs seems to explain everything except this.

In attempting to upgrade to D7 and encountering multiple roadblocks, I opted for a fresh install with a new database as I didn't have much on the old site anyway. I have my old database saved and all I need are my blog files and the comments that go along with them--is there a way to transfer just those files? Everytime I try to export files and import them into my new database only those files show up but everything else is broken.

Hi there,

In the new implementation of node_save(), the '&' has gone from the single param $node and nothing is returned in return...

How do you actually get the nid after node_save() ?

Thanks.

Whats the point of .htaccess file located in /sites/default/files directory?
I had to remove or change it to successfully use the CSS Aggregation.

If I do not remove or change it, then css file request to that address (for ex: sites/default/files/css/css_5XB5aQOGzDUVxnwtHDXg0AJDjmjZbe2Sh1K2BEkR5cM.css)
produces on 500 internal server error. Which means, no css files actually get loaded, and page looks ugly.

The .htaccess file contains below 3 lines.

Sethandler Drupal_Security_Do_Not_Remove_See_SA_2006_006
Options None
Options +FollowSymLinks

I recently started a project for a client in which I need to be able to allow users to log in to the Drupal 7 site that I am building and upload data files for administrative review. I was able to add the upload field when creating new content, but have yet to be able to determine how to add an upload file option somewhere actually within the content of the user's page. Can someone please help me? I am new to Drupal but really feel that it is a great CMS. I want to make this work, as I'd like to keep it as the CMS of choice. Thanks, in advance for any help that anyone can be.