Drupal 7.x

Can anyone enlighten me on the importance of database logging? In what instances should I enable this module and what are the benefits/drawbacks? Thank you.

I am attempting to return to Drupal after being disillusioned with Drupal 5 and migrating to another CMS. I am starting to feel that I just have terribly bad timing here, coming in so soon after Drupal 7 is released. I don't feel it's right to deploy a site right now on Drupal 6; 7 was released for a reason after all.

So I'm finding it extremely hard to deploy a simple image gallery on D7. I do not want to install someone else's product and hook it into Drupal (for my needs, that would remove the motivation to use Drupal). The Media module was suggested to me in #drupal, but it is broken and has warnings on its page that it contains bugs that can destroy your site database. I tried it in a sandbox just to make sure and it couldn't even show thumbnails of the images I uploaded. The audio and video portions are already classified non-working by the developer.

Instead I created my own "image" Content Type and created a gallery Taxonomy with one term for each gallery I wanted. Using Views, I am able to create a View page that shows the images in a gallery with thumbnails in a grid. Colorbox integrates and works as expected.

I am attempting to install Drupal 7 on Red Hat Linux 5.6. I get the message:

Drupal requires you to enable the PHP extensions in the following list (see the system requirements page for more information):
•gd

My php configure statement is:

./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-mysql=shared --with-gd=shared

I have the line "extension=php_gd2.pll" in /etc/php.ini and the line "extension=gd.so" in /etc/php.d/php.ini

I have restarted apache and confirmed that the php-gd package is installed on my server.

Hey everyone, i am trying to implement a book database so that i will be able to search for books like in Amazon, either by Title or ISBN etc..
This is for a textbook exchange system at school to be used by students to exchange books.
I have just started using drupal and i have it setup and running.. Can you give me some guidance on how to go about creating such a site e.g. Modules to use, etc..
Any help will be appreciated - thanks.

Background:
I'm trying to set up a website for my (news publishing) company. One of the functionality would be the ability to handle images.

Now, I'm trying to configure image module in Drupal 7 to duplicate Drupal 6 functionality.

Any thoughts on the following?
1. D7 no longer generates various sizes for images uploaded (e.g. thumbnail, preview, original). I can set multiple image styles, but I can only choose one image style under the 'Manage Display' tab for the content node 'Image'. Any idea to get D7 to create more image sizes?

2. In D6, images uploaded can be assigned to galleries. Any ideas how to set this up in D7? Seems most gallery modules aren't ported over to D7 yet.

3. What's the best way to upload images in bulk in D7? In D6, images can be uploaded with FTP, then Drupal would recognize all the files on a single page where the titles, body text, tags and galleries can be assigned. Seems like D7 does allow multiple images to be uploaded to a single node. Any downsides to that?

I would like do the following:

Have 2 different user types/roles, customer and company. Each with additional custom fields and profile page. I have been looking at account settings, but I can't see that it is possible to add specific fields to one role. I also looked at the profile 2 module and this also seems to add all the fields I add to a profile type to all the users.

How would you go about creating a company(user) with address + logo, etc. and customer with some different fields?

Hope one you can lead me in the right direction, anything is appreciated.