Post installation

Hi there,
I've searched and searched and I have not come across a definitive answer. Does anybody know if it is possible to limit the time a user can be a member?

Eaxmple 1) During the promotion period I want to give the first 5000 members free membership for 1 year.

Example 2) Eventually I would like to have free membership for 5 days and then charge (using the paypal subscribe module) for 12 month membership.

If there is not a module or setting that which enables this, might there be a workaround by using OG or a different module?

I've been using Drupal 4.7's forums for a couple of months now. The site is still in beta and is being migrated from several CMS and many static pages (fwiw, drupal 4.6, geeklog, gallery, wordpress and phpbb).

I've seen a lot of unconstructive posts on here whinging about integrating Drupal with phpbb or just saying "Drupal forums suck", and alongside those quite a few posts replying with "start a forum post with the features you'd like". So here is one! I've tried to link to existing bug reports, forums requests and feature requests as I go along for more detail, although that hasn't made this post any shorter...

First I should point out that when people say "Drupal forums suck", what they mean is forum.module without any customisation doesn't work like a normal forum. What they don't mention is that both core Drupal and many contributed modules do some things far better than a lot of dedicated forums software (or at least different / more interestingly). On the other hand I've not seen much about scalability of forum.module and a few other issues which can be very difficult to work out - those I'll get to later.

i have features enabled on my site such as private messages, personal contact form, and newsletters. there are check-buttons in the user preferences pages that must be set for some of these features to work.

i want certain settings enabled for users from the moment they set up their accounts, instead of having the users having to initially set them themselves, such as turning private messaging on for their account.

how can i change the default settings for a newly created user? thanks for the help.

thanks,

adam

Greetings,

Is there a way to restrict/assign to a role the ability to display the material at the main page (whether the user can check the corresponding checkbox when submitting material)?

Thanks!

Best wishes,

Konstantin

I've created a CCK content type for movie listings (my organization shows movies).

Each movie plays at one of 5 theaters. Is there a way I can set up my content type so that I can select from a list of these theaters, and whichever I pick will insert a pre-defined chunk of info about that theater on the page?

I can create a list of theaters to link to using "node reference", but I want to not only the theater name, but some other info as well.

I installed drupal, but I cant get the cool url to work.. i tried a lot of things.. and nothing works. Please help... i am a newbie.