Drupal 7.x

I've just installed Drupal but I am already encountering a most likely fundamental mistake. I am installing one of the default modules on to the website but the link only appears in the admin preview but not on the actual website (contact module). I have probably done something really stupid but I would appreciate if anyone would help.

Cheers.

I'm trying to convert my Tetris module to work in Drupal 7. The game is a block and when I view my blocks on

'admin/structure/block'

my Tetris block isnt visible in Drupal 7. I have converted the function 'tetris_block' to 'tetris_block_info' and 'tetris_block_view' and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

This is the code so far for tetris.module converting it to Drupal 7 from Drupal 6:

<?php

// $Id: tetris.module,v 1.12 2009/03/03 11:37:56 skinhat Exp $

/*
* Drupal Module: tetris
*
* @author: Glenn Linde
*/

function tetris_menu() {
$items = array();

$items['admin/config/tetris'] = array(
'title' => t('Tetris Configuration'),
'description' => t('Configure the game.'),
'page callback' => 'drupal_get_form',
'page arguments' => array('tetris_admin_settings'),
'access arguments' => array('administer site configuration'),
'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM,// optional
);

$items['tetris/win'] = array(
'title' => '',
'page callback' => 'tetris_win',
'access callback' => TRUE,
'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
'access' => TRUE
);
return $items;
}

/**
* Display help and module information
* @param section which section of the site we're displaying help
* @return help text for section
*/
function tetris_help($path,$arg) {

I'm using admin menu and I went to flush all caches. When the page reloaded all my blocks are missing. I can get to blocks from admin menu but the main content block is off, missing or emtpy, I'm not sure. Getting to the different pages still displays the page title with breadcrumb navigation but that's it. Does anyone know what could have happened?

I have tried all day, looking through I would like to say, around 50 tutorials on how to install phpMyAdmin, MySQL, and Apache server and downloading them. I haven't been successful at finding a tutorial that can help me. I'm not a programmer, and I am only familiar with CSS and HTML. I'm going to create a video game community, and I was thinking, what better way to do it than with Drupal, after looking through several services. I have no cash, therefor I have no hosting service, besides the free ones that can be found on google.

Hi Folks!

I'm working on a new site for a client. They have a section on their old site called resources where you can look up a keyword and it'll pull up a list of books and articles related to that keyword. They have this all stored in a database. I'm now redoing their site in Drupal (7) and I need to get this copied over and usable in the new Drupal site. I dug around their database in phpmyadmin and found the table with this information. It's essentially structured as follows:

num (ID number of the posted article starting at 11 and going up to 159 mostly in order with some missing numbers in between)
createdDate (year-month-date
hour:minute:second)
createdByUserNum (user 1 and user 2)
updatedDate
updatedByUserNum
hidden (I guess this is a 0 or 1. They're all 0 currently)
product (book title)
summary
description (they have the amount of pages the book or article is)
keywords (keywords separated by semi-colon)
source
type (what type of book or article it is)
month (of publication for the book or article)
year2
author
author2
author3
subtitle
item_number (not sure what this is for. seems to be numbers between 1-30, some repeated, some are empty)

Hi all, just looking for some general advice on getting started with Drupal. The end goal is to have a recipe sharing site where people can post recipes, rate them, have their own cooking blogs, and most popular blogs/recipes are automatically sent to the front page. I have a site that works this way on Wordpress, (to some degree) but it's outgrown wordpress. I am familiar with some coding, css, and in general good with computers, but have no clue as to where to start with Drupal. Any advice is much appreciated.