Drupal 7.x

I want to add an additional page to my site that is not based on an existing internal path. By this I mean I expect to have page.tpl, page--front.tpl, and page--extra.tpl located in my templates folder. As I understand the documentation I am limited to pages mapped onto internal names, eg., page--node.tpl or page--node-blog.tpl, etc. This page will just give a different look to my site but will still display typical drupal content. I tried an experimental page--extra by simply copying and renaming page.tpl.php, and drupal did find it and load it(via?q=extra), But; it only had access to the basic page variables and not the full set available to page.tpl or page--front.tpl. This included things for example like $title, $main-menu, and and $page['region'] variables, so many things aren't displayable. I don't want to use a module to support page--extra nor do I see how to hook into the menu system so that page--extra gets processed the same as page or page--front.
I would like this theme to work out of the box so that anyone implementing it doesn't have to enable any modules or modify menu or other structure items to use it. I hope I can do it in template.php. I think I can achieve the effect without an extra page by using javascript hide/show specific content but I'd rather not. Any suggestions are welcome.

So this has been a source of frustration for me. I have used views to take care of this for me in most areas of the site, but with the layout I'm trying to achieve it doesn't seem to be the best option for this content.

Hi, I have been having difficulty in trying to make dynamic drupal pages in drupal 7.x. I cannot seem to find the documentation on it. I have tried for dozens of hours and still cannot get it to work.

This is basically what I want to do. I want to make a page that varies depending on what user is logged in, like the User account info page. Say user1 is logged in it would be say ....com/page1/user1, if user2 were logged in it would be ....com/page1/user2 while both having the same page format, but the material displayed would be particular to the user.

I've been trying to install and create web sites with Drupal for two months now. Unsuccessfully.
I don't know where to put files. I tried an Acquia-Drupal installation, it worked for awhile, then one of my sites crashed and could not be recovered even from a backup (through Time Machine). Although I have a degree in Engineering Physics, I don't have much of a web background other than html and css. No unix, php, apache, or mysql.

When I read the documentation handbooks, I cannot understand them.
The presentations and answers to questions in the forums are obviously from programmers and computer science graduates. They are not intelligible to ordinary mortals, perhaps even immortals!

I would like to be able to use Drupal for 4 websites I need to build.

To my knowledge, there are five ways to install or work with Drupal. (on my Mac system, maybe PC also)
1. On the local system using the supplied php/apache/mysql set up that comes with Mac OS 10.6.6. By turning on web sharing in preferences. But how to manage it is a mystery. Where to put files, how to create databases and back them up. How to link all the appropriate files together, especially if I move the site folder, etc. I don't know how to do any of that.

I've been looking at the FAPI reference and didn't found the image upload widget control, there is only a #file and a #managed_file, I've been using the #managed_file, but i'de like the thumb preview functionality.

thanks!

Hi !

Not sure if this is the correct Forum to post this question but..

Using Drupal 7 I made a new menu and made a few pages for it.
Eksample:

MENU A
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3

(Placed it as block in a region on the fron page.)

Then when I hit edit on page 1. add some more text and then save, page 1 jumps over to main menu

The menu options only alows to place the page under the main menu, however I have already placed it under another menu, so if I uncheck the menu options it simply places the page to no menu at all.