General discussion

I found the drupal 'user' table and the 'data' field which contains the hash of the user profile info, but I'm looking to include more information the what is currently stored in this hash. However this doesn't contain all the fields that I want to get from the users. What I'm looking to do is to have an "organization" field and Organization description field, plus several others. How will drupal 4.4.2 deal with if I add fields to the user' table? Is there a better way of doing this? Is there an address book functionality module?

I'm giving drupal a test drive on my home linux box to see if can do what I'm looking to do, I have to say I really like drupal so far. I The groups module would have appeared to be what I want, but I'm wondering of an assigned role would do the trick. I'm looking for a way that a group of people, a family for example, could edit ONLY each other's content and no one other families data. Is this possible? Would the group module, when working again, be able to do this? Is there another way I can get this functionality?

this am I started getting emails from Cron with a bunch of code and now I get thie error message when trying to visit the drupal site, http://www.nbsweb.net:

Fatal error: Can't open file: 'cache.MYD'. (errno: 145) query: SELECT data, created, headers FROM cache WHERE cid = '/' in /home/webadmin/support.nbsweb.net/html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 97

I stopped and started mysql and got it going but not the site.

I know it's been raised many times before but here I am raising it again!

Drupal is fantastic and I understand 4.5 has a mechanism for 3rd-party access control modules to plug into but:

Hello all,
I've come to that point that EVERYONE who uses Drupal for a period of time reaches. I want to relate terms from DIFFERENT vocabularies...to each other. For example, I have 3 vocabularies with their respective terms:

ITALY
-geography
-climate
-education

FRANCE
-cuisine
-wine
-calvados

PORTUGAL
-history
-culture
-language

Now, these three vocabularies are assigned to nodes of my choosing i.e...article and story...and the terms are in turn attached to various articles under their respective nodes. Yet, when a visitor clicks on the term "climate" only those terms in the vocabulary ITALY assigned the term "climate" will show. I would like to know, is it possible to relate the term "climate" in vocabulary ITALY to, let's say, the term "wine" in vocabulary FRANCE so when either term is clicked both terms will have their respective articles show? I have looked at taxonomy_browser and it is in the right direction...but I want navigation from the taxonomy terms ONLY..NOT a separate search-box-input-thingy. Or...does anyone know how to have a more "cumulative sub-search"? For example, lets say each page associated with the vocabulary ITALY has all three terms attached to them, "geography", "climate", and "vocabulary". Ordinarily, when "geography" is clicked we get all the pages associated with the term "geography". When we now click "climate", we get the results ONLY for the term "climate" NOT "geography" and "climate" together at the same time. Does anyone know how to do this? I have looked at the taxonomy.module and found this code:

why is it necessary to start every README in the contributed modules with this sentence? Wouldn't it reflect on the programmer better to start out with "This module is a miracle of modern computer science defying all the normal laws of software development by elegantly masking inordinate complexity behind a simple and intuitive interface. It allows users to make a block on the left with a bunch of links...."

-Robert