General discussion

Now that 4.3 features so many improvements - like db prefixing - are there any plans for an install script?
I guess that would improve Drupals appeal to non-programmers.
Especially if it contains a guide like structure, and gives the installer the choice of a few preset configurations - like community site, personal site, etc.

4.3 makes Drupal rock even more - thanx guys.

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Gunnar

Hi, I came from Tiki, a wiki environment. I was surprised to see how little control users have over placement of book pages. Even if a user creates a new page, it goes in alphabetical order under a parent. The book module appears to provide little control to a non-admin to decide where a page goes, other than picking its parent.

ok, here's a doozy for you. I want to create a weekly "poll" that contains a bunch of photos (say 5). I want users to be able to vote for a certain photo each week, with the winner having the most tallies. I thinkI have 3 options

a) get gallery running in drupal 4.3.0 and hack it up
b) hack up the poll module to allow images for it's "answers" (and text)
c) design my own implementation and make a drupal module - would use PEAR's DataObjects for db interaction most like.

Thoughts? recommendations? suggestions?

thanks,
neko

Both of these revolve around the date system.

Firstly, there are no .5 tiemzones supported out of the box. I live in Adealide Australia .. which is GMT+9.5 .. there are a few other timezones which are in .5 zones.

Secondly, the dropdown boxes which provide dateformatting for short, medium and long dates .. any chance we can have options for the time to come BEFORE the date?

I've just started playing with Drupal and I'm looking forward to see what it can do.

Had set out to write this online book for Drupal developers Inside the Drupal Source but it is turning out to be a frustrating excersise! :(

The Drupal source is very dynamic so writting an offline book and putting it out was not the way to go. Therefore, I set out to write it online so that changes in the source can be reflected ASAP in the book. Here's why this is not working out:

Firstly everytime I write a page, there is this moderation waiting period before which it does not appear in the Documentation page. Would'nt the Wiki way be much better, of rollback'in to a previous version in case there are problems rather than having to moderate every post?

Secondly, every time I make changes to the Page, I cant see them in the Preview! I did see this bug report though today Book preview is bogus on drupal.org, so I guess this is getting fixed.

I started writting Chapter 1 and then later updated it as I was figuring out the code, but I cant see my updates! . BTW someone has posted this bug report Incorrect conf.php file may be selected in a multi-host environment that is related to what Im talking about in Chapter 1. If the page was moderated it would let the others in the community know the context of that bug report in detail.

I've got 8 individual news sites running with Drupal (the virtual hosting options are great for this), and I have one page which aggregates the news from all of the other sites as sort of a central repository, by setting the Default Front Page to "import"..

The problem I'm having now is that I can't control how many stories from each feed appear on the home page, so the first feed fills the whole thing.

Is there a way to control how many stories from each news feed are listed, or to maybe alternate one from each feed?

Thanks,
fnord