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I would like to force drupal always showing the pages with www in front of my domain and using SSL. How do I do this?

Hi

I'm completely new to Drupal. I have a horizontal main menu. One of the menu items should contain an expandable list of links. But how does I make the parent link. I must provide a path when creating the parent link. But I only want it to expand the menu when clicking at the parent link - not go somewhere.

On my zen sub theme, I am trying to print out an image that is in my theme folder, onto my front page.

In D6 I would do this:

      <img width="929" height="137" border="0" alt="" src="<?php print base_path( )?><?php path_to_theme() ?>/images/frontpage/slideshow_placeholder.jpg" />

And it would work...This time, it's not. It's not grabbing the base path as far as I can tell. I end up seeing something that looks like themes/custom/nameofthing/image/image_name.jpg in the source code.

I would like to create a page that authenticated users can see that lists all other users of my site, potentially with custom fields I have added to their profiles, and a link to each user's complete profile. in other words, a Member Directory.

What is a good way to go about doing this?

Hi,

I have a lot of structured content in database that I need to put up online on Drupal. We're on D7.

I need to programmatically create "book" page and add it as appropriate sub-page, if required.

Manually, the steps done are:
- Create a "book page"
- Register it to one or more menus (at least main menu or may be also to a custom menu)
- Create a new book or add it as a child to an existing book-page entry