Post installation

Hello,

I am reasonably new to Drupal and am setting it up for a friend's website. We are building a website for a local parent club and all the member clubs. What we want is a site that has a forum, email newsletter, photo gallery, news article posting, events calendar (possibly with RSVP) and general static content pages. .I have found modules for all of the aforementioned tasks but need some advice with the implementation:

1.I would like my main frontpage to have a different template than the standard page template. I found that said I will need to create a file called front.tpl.php in my theme's folder and to use the following code:

 if ($is_front) {
  include('front.tpl.php');
  return;
}

Where do put this php code?
2.If I want to have multiple images intermixed with a page or story what is the easiest way to go about this? Do I need a special module to allows me to do so? I was assuming I could just upload images with the Image module and then reference them using the html code. This is and OK solution for me but not the average content poster on my site. I think they might prefer a screen on the page/story creation page.
3.How would you suggest I set up an infrastructure for member clubs? We want then to be able to have their own Frontpage, newsletter, events calendar and content moderator but using our main site and same database.

I want to aggregate my own rss feed.

However, when I add a new feed in Aggregator (either my own rss.xml or Feedburner address), the block's feed item links all contain a "?s=" part. Clicking on the link does bring me to my desired node, but it logs me out.

One of the links looks like this...
http://www.mydomain.com/news/1488?s=7ed92c192d79fb8a322be598354423b1&

I would like to create (or find) a component for webform that is very similar to the "select" component. It is essentially the select option, however, there are textarea fields next to each option for the select. In essence, make your selection and tell me why you chose it.

It seems like creating a new component might be the way to go. However, all components are rendered in a vertical fashion, one per line if you will. I would like to have the text areas right next to the select options.

The web page I have been working on recently had its database server go down (or so the Error message said.) I believe they upgraded the system or something. When it came back on, the error message went away, but now the drupal page only shows up a blank page. The drupal files still exist, as well as the MySQL data for it. Content outside of drupal works fine. On the same site there is a wordpress portion setup, it gave a similar message when the server was down, but it returned to normal after the database came back and works now.

Hello All,

I have a quick, hopefully simple question. How do I find tax_o id number for a vocabulary (not a term item)? Where do I look?

I am seeking the tax_o id number itself, not the script for instance, which if when utilized with a taxonomy id number can created a list of content. I have the script in place already, however, my vocabulary items changed (add/delete) and the old tax_o id numbers are still in place within the script. As such, the script has "dead" tax_o number and does not render/list any content.

I had to migrate a multi-site installation of Drupal from one server to another, and devised a way to copy all the relevant MySQL databases from the old server to the new server with a single bash command. It is secure as it is piped through SSH. Hope someone finds this useful.

Execute the following statement on the server containing the databases to be migrated. Italicised items should be replaced with relevant values for your system. Replace the list of databases with your list of databases to be migrated -- I used this to migrate 20 or so databases with one command. :)