Drupal 7.x

Im toying with d7 for a while now. Reading some docs about fields, content types, views and references etc. but still couldnt my way around a working data design for a project on my mind. I guess Im missing something fundemental in the process.

Here is a very simplified version of my need.

I have a computer repair shop where a couple of technicians works for me. I provide a couple of different services and, of course, not every technician can provide every service. I want to keep a list of the every service my shop can provide, a list of my technicians and most importantly a list where I can see which technician can provide what services or what services can be provided by which technician, or whatever...

As someone who is not a developer and has a slight idea of database modelling, I would have come with a database design like this...

technicians
-----------
tech_id: (PK)
tech_name:

1 table for the list of techs...

services
--------
service_id: (PK)
service_name:

1 table for the available services that the shop can provide...

tech_to_service
----------------
tech_id: (FK_tech_id_on_technicians_table)
service_id: (FK_service_id_on_services_table)

and finally 1 relation table where I would keep the tech-service relation information.

Drupal 7
Ok, here's the problem: I'm trying to create a select list of countries. I have other custom lists to create, so I'm not going to download a module. Here's the current settings: http://screencast.com/t/njzbKh3Lr4 I have defined a custom function donation_form_countries_array that I originally placed as the "allowed values function."

<?php

function donation_form_countries_array()
{
return array(
'AF'=>'Afghanistan',
'AL'=>'Albania',
'DZ'=>'Algeria',
'AS'=>'American Samoa',
'AD'=>'Andorra',
'AO'=>'Angola',
'AI'=>'Anguilla',
'AQ'=>'Antarctica',
'AG'=>'Antigua And Barbuda',
'AR'=>'Argentina',
'AM'=>'Armenia',
'AW'=>'Aruba',
'AU'=>'Australia',
'AT'=>'Austria',
'AZ'=>'Azerbaijan',
'BS'=>'Bahamas',
'BH'=>'Bahrain',
'BD'=>'Bangladesh',
'BB'=>'Barbados',
'BY'=>'Belarus',
'BE'=>'Belgium',
'BZ'=>'Belize',
'BJ'=>'Benin',
'BM'=>'Bermuda',
'BT'=>'Bhutan',
'BO'=>'Bolivia',
'BA'=>'Bosnia And Herzegovina',
'BW'=>'Botswana',
'BV'=>'Bouvet Island',
'BR'=>'Brazil',
'IO'=>'British Indian Ocean Territory',
'BN'=>'Brunei',
'BG'=>'Bulgaria',
'BF'=>'Burkina Faso',
'BI'=>'Burundi',
'KH'=>'Cambodia',
'CM'=>'Cameroon',
'CA'=>'Canada',
'CV'=>'Cape Verde',
'KY'=>'Cayman Islands',
'CF'=>'Central African Republic',
'TD'=>'Chad',
'CL'=>'Chile',
'CN'=>'China',
'CX'=>'Christmas Island',

I wanted to prepare a local hosting on my own PC running Windows XP. I succeeded installing Apache,PHP is working. SQL seems not to work although the service is running (MySQL server 5.5). When I want to start with the setup of Drupal in the browser window the process stops on the check for requirements. It says the database support is disabled and the web server does not support PDO database extensions. I tryed to follow the suggestions about this without success.

I've never used a content management system to manage product sites with databases and staged releases. Having worked in software product companies, I'm more than casually aware of the problems that people have with upgrading complex production systems based on products that use databases.

We all know it's madness to make configuration changes, install new modules, create new fields and views, etc. right in a production site. So, you start work in a dev environment, figure it all out, then transfer the changes, upgrades and stuff into a test site. A couple people beat on the test site, it's all good. NOW. Take all of those changes you've made and integrate them into the production site.

I'm using drupal 7 and i'm wondering if there are any support ticketing systems for it. I was using http://drupal.org/project/support. But that's only for drupal 6.

I'm surprised it's not in Drupal Core considering drupal.org uses an issue ticketing system for the different modules.

Hi everybody,

I am looking for a way to allow me to:
* add a list of rss feeds
* everytime there is a news, to create a Page/Article on my drupal website containing a briefing concerning the rss flux.
* visualize every new article on the first page.
* so on

is it a possible ? can you explain to me how ??

sorry for my english

thank you