Drupal 7.x

Happy New Year All.

First post here and it's a bit of a bigger one, if it's in the wrong spot let me know.

Either way, as the title shows, I'm looking at moving off of the technologies that currently house our external (Ektron) and internal (SharePoint) web presence. Drupal is high on the list of products to use namely because it's open source and has such a large community behind it.

That being said, I figure instead of reading and searching all over the place for answers to my questions, I would post here first to see what people who know this system have to say first. Basically there is a list of items that people on the above 2 systems are using now, and wherever I move them off to, that same level of service should be maintained.

If you can only answer 1 or a couple that's great! If the functionality doesn't exist out of the box but you are aware of modules/services that can do it (free or not) please let me know.

If you have a question about an item, please let me know.

SharePoint Specific Items

S1 - Self site creation: This is the ability to allow the average user to create their own web pages built off of developer created templates.

S2 - Self service permissions: Basically gives the average user the ability to deal with permissions on pages or folders without IT intervention.

Need following basic and compulsary features

1>It will allow visitors to sign up and login .SSL certification(256 bit encrypted) to secure login details and whole session till the user signs out (just like gmail)...this feature wil make bettors feel secure and stay anonymous.User will be able to see their last 10 login IPs like gmail.

2>After signing up they come to their dashboard where all details of transactions are recorder(just like paypal) .pagination done by inserting date from_____to ________.filters can be applied.

3>"Add fund" button to a allow then to add fund and update their account balance.
Shall have to integrate a third-party payment processor accordingly(with credit cards no wire transfer) .The amount given by members will show i their balance after any charge deductions ..it should be automated and instant.
4>a real time comment board (controlled from admin panel)in the dashboard showing current rate or sports status./it will allow user to choose their favorite team and lock bet

5>Todays match status/like Japan won/Match being played/Outcome pending.. /

6>After the outcome of the match account balance got to be automatically credited with an algorithm...like n fund added..if the rate is 2.5 then the user wins 3.5n fund.

if user looses "Sorry you lost :Account balance debited automatically"

Hi all,

I ran in to an error during the installation of D7 on windows IIS server:

Error message

• No active batch.
• PDOException: SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') ORDER BY fit DESC LIMIT 0, 1' at line 1: SELECT * FROM {menu_router} WHERE path IN () ORDER BY fit DESC LIMIT 0, 1; Array ( ) in menu_get_item() (line 443 of ...\drupal7\includes\menu.inc).

I've read in the forums that this might have to do with the cookie path, but the proposed solutions didn't help in my case.
After further research I discovered that the value of $base_url in settings.php which I had set prior to starting the installer, had been reverted to the default value. After restoring this setting, the installation completed without errors.

I am able to reproduce this using the following steps:

1. Began with an empty database, and with a settings.php file equal to default.settings.php
2. Replaced $base_url with the base url of the drupal installation (because IIS is running on a different port, which is only accessible through a reverse proxy that listens on port 80)
3. Started the installer, chose standard profile and English language

I've tried to upgrade D7 site from 7.0 alfa6 version to the 7.0 official release (wrong step? should I do a new clean installation instead?) and I am getting the error:

An unrecoverable error has occurred. You can find the error message below. It is advised to copy it to the clipboard for reference.
Please continue to the error page
An AJAX HTTP request terminated abnormally. Debugging information follows. Path: http://www.complexsolutions.eu/....... ResponseText: ReadyState: 4

Hello there,

Upgrading to Drupal 7 has turned in a bit of a nightmare. I solved a few problems thanks to older forum threads but the problems seem endless, as I go. I followed the instructions though. the only thing I forgot to do, was to put the website back to English, so it was set in French before upgrading.

My issues:
/admin/build/ instead of admin/structure in Drupal 7 This is an old issue, though, but current for me. I solved this by disabling duplicate menus (old ones from D6).

Is it easy develop a component (3 drop down menus + combined with 1 picker),... I must use Drupal or jQuery?
Have you have this particularly, in Help Files?