General discussion

hello!
i'm wanting to get started with E-Commerce 4.7, and am hoping to get some general direction. *also* there happens to be a 2-day drupal training session here in my city this week, so i'm also looking for suggestions on how to get the most of out if in regards to E-Commerce 4.7.

as for my skillset - i consider myself an intermediate to advanced practitioner of web standards, but a serious php newbie. i'm hoping to get some of the following questions answered:

For the record I have released my scraper module.
http://drupal.org/project/scraper

Requirements: Drupal 4.7, PHP5, XML DOM, Tidy, some PHP skill, ability to learn XPath.

You would generally use this module if there were (non-syndicated, delimited) data in websites, that you wanted to import as nodes. Scraper could be run on any test Drupal site, and the data it produces could be imported anywhere (MS Excel, Drupal 4.x).

Some advanced features present:

Enjoy

I just added an "about me" multi-line textfield under profiles then went to check on it in my account. The new category shows under edit and I see a submit button but no multi-line texfield. I double checked this: HOWTO: Create new profile fields and it seems that I did everything correctly... I tried adding a second multi-line texfield and still don't have any textfields showing... any hints or is this a bug?

Thought I'd post this script, it's written in Coldfusion, so it won't be of much use to some of you but, maybe you can find a way to write something in PHP or .. you might move to a host like mine that runs on Unix and supports both CF and PHP :)

It's a rough piece but it only took me a couple minutes and seems to be working. I'll refine it over the next couple weeks. If you want a later version, let me know.

This script, sets an application variable application.newuserid which is the highest user uid at the time that it ran. The next time it runs it checks for userids that are higher and then puts a welcome message into their inbox using the "privmsg module". Also, I have already edited the privmsg.module so that "Receive daily e-mail for unread messages" is checked by default.

This script relies on CFSchedule function to trigger it and I have it set to run every 1800 seconds, though might make it run more often as I rely on it more. Also, I have it emailing me everytime it runs... again this is just until I'm ready to let it run on its own.

select uid from users
where uid > #application.newuserid#;

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INSERT into privatemsg (author,recipient,subject,message,timestamp,newmsg,hostname,folder,author_del,recipient_del,format)
VALUES ('adminsid',"#i#","Welcome",'#message#','','1','admin','0','0','0','1');

#i# - sucess

I have installed the location module. Although it will display the address for the user registration, it is not part of the User Profile. So the city or zip code cannnot be part of the user filter to facilitate other modules, such as "advuser" to distribute emails based on the location.
Any idea about this? Thanks!

I cant change the dafault time zone in the date settings form, when I tried I get the message:

"An illegal choice has been detected. Please contact the site administrator."

For example the default time zone:

Sunday, June 25 2006, -19:22 +0000

I try to change it to:

Sunday, June 25 2006,- 14:22 -0500

when I submit this change I recive the error message

The administrative logs show:
Type form
Message Illegal choice in Default time zone element.
Severity notice