Post installation

I'm new to Drupal ;) so I need some advice on adding a custom field to the login.

I need to add a select menu to the registration process, so the user can select which type of user role they are.

I figure I'll need to add a field to the database.

Which module should I modify and where should I put the modified file? Do I need to simply add it to the page.tpl.php or change the local user.module?

Please give it to me in baby steps :) Thanks!

I installed 5.0 beta 1 this weekend. It's my first time using a CMS/CMP.
I'm a non-programmer volunteer, helping a school.

Can I add links in the header horizontally ?
Similar to the header of the Drupal site.

I kept the default theme, Garland, which really looks good.

Thanks in advance !
Edgardo.

hi,

i created a new block to show random user profiles, using the code in this page -http://drupal.org/node/76351

but, it works only for the admin, other role users see no content in the block...

can you tell why this happens? is drupal run mysql script only for admin users?

thanks a lot,
enky.

Hi. I recently took an instance of drupal from a development to a production server environment. Things went pretty smoothly; we ran into a bug with php 5.2 for which there is a patch described in an article on here, and another issue whereby users were required to endlessly reauthenticate caused, in that case, by an expected directory, set in Administer > Settings > File System > Temporary Directory. We added the directory where Drupal wanted it in the server file system and all was well.

I'm looking at running the page caching for a high traffic site with a very query intensive front page as a way to keep the server from maxing out. (When we get up to full load, we'll have 30k+ visitors per day to the content site, plus we've got the RoundCube module running for free webmail for all users.)

I've been thinking about using the Drupal cashe feature, but I've read on many posts here, that there are problems with this feature, especially the generation of blank pages . . .

I don't want to use something that's not working 100% so I'm asking you guys, do you have any experience with this feature? good or bad, let me know. I'm on 4.7.4.

thanks!