General discussion

If I create a new page in my drupal system with mostly php code in it, can I and how I use the global $user variable to retrieve the username (field "name" in the users table) ?
The very username of the person connected (so it's in the session or something ?) so when he goes on that page i'll be able to show him a list of clients he's in charge of , this list coming from an external DB that can link his username with it (actually an oracle view).

and what would be the most efficient/elegant way to have this other external oracle DB connection in my drupal page.

I'm just about to look into how to transform my site (http://100777.com) into a static nice little collection of folders and .html files that could be put on a cdrom for instance. Before that I've decided to see if anyone's already done something like this? Didn't find any threads on this yet, perhaps I'll google around in a while.

How difficult is adding the recent entries of Blogs, weblinks, events and such to the main section of your site like in the following URL?

http://urlgreyhot.com/drupal/

Does it involve hacking so many things, or simpler than it looks?

Can you guys pls point me in the right direction?

KC

Does anyone have a script which imports many weblink nodes at one time instead of entering them one-by-one. When you try to add hundreds or even maybe thousands of links, it is not a fun job to sit there and copy paste over and over and over:-)


I already tried installing the node import module but unfortunately it did not work. I asked a question about a month ago but nobody answered. http://drupal.org/node/view/7714

Hello,

I'm trying (this summer) to develope a web application that can hold a system of keeping local leisure activities (theater, gigs, exhibitions,...) up-to-date. This is an idea that I had for some years, and I even used to keep alive the web version of the local activities zine. That was years ago when I hadn't even heard of server programming (read php + mysql).

Hello,

Is there any way of get an announcement of comments posted to my topics?

(If not I think it will be a help, simply not to have to remember all the topics I've posted and have to check every day (hour?, minutes?) for comments to themm.)

Thanx for your attention,
hip