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So I'm one month into learning Drupal, and the more I learn the more I'm impressed. The code is so compact but powerful -- it HAS to be the best use of PHP around. Congrats and thanks. I can't believe it's free!

I find my biggest problems are with themeing. I'm sure I still have much to learn, but it's definitely counter intuitive for me to control the way data is presented. I have picky clients who want their data JUST SO.

I am probably not doing this in the most Drupal-ly way, but I end up making CCK nodes (I have 4 or 5 types) and then show them directly in node view, teaser view and list view. The 'view' mode of fields has been cleaned and handled by Drupal, so I know I SHOULD use that, but it also always have extra paragraph tags, or a wrapping divs with classes put in there. I know it's for my own good -- but I want to control that. So I use the 'value' mode sometimes (I know, for shame) -- and of course then I run into problems when my users put in smart quotes, etc.

What I wish is that I could get a cleaned version of the value with ONLY HTML that my clients put in there. I'll take care of the wrapping divs and classes in my tpl files!

Anyone else feel that way? Again, I'm sure as I get more comfortable I'll be able to go with the existing flow better. BUt for right now, I love Drupal right up until I have to show the presentation of my customized content, and then I become very aware of how naive I am in this system! Oh, I know there's a way to theme a particular FIELD with Views. But CCK? How do I create and set a handler? It doesn't feel like that's what I'm suposed to do anyway.

After logout, I get ?time=1156999883 appended to the end of the URL. Is this bad? Is this an error? I'm using the Logintoboggan module but I don't know if it's a related problem. I also have clean URLs enabled and I use the Pathauto module. Can someone explain this?

OK, I've trawled the site and found and applied a whole lot of different possible fixes, but I'm still having problems.

Basically, cron fails at a specific point when search is indexing my site.

I may be heading down a dead end, but I'm becoming convinced it's an environment issue. The reason being is that I have a dev and a live version that run near identical code and data, but on different machines. One's a local linux box and the other is ISP hosted (the live site that fails).

This is driving me crazy and makes no sense. When an authenticated user tries to create a new group the page, "Access Denied, You are not authorized to access this page." is displayed. My access control permissions are set correctly for the authenticated user for the creation of groups (og_basic module, create groups, authenticated column, the box is checked) but I still get this problem.

I recently downloaded image_tab after searching for a way to let users upload pics into each of their pages they can create.

I already tried all the other image mods at this point and then came acrocc image tab. After deciding that this is what I needed, I deleted some of those unwanted modules.

When I first downloaded the image tab I could click on an image and it would enlarge in a new window.

Somehow, after deleting some of the other modules that I didn't think I needed created a new problem for me.

The xml icon in the blog.module is welded to the bottom of the page and I think there's little you can do currently to reposition it.

What I'd like to do therefore is include a url (which I'll enclose in a div for css styling) that points dynamically to the feed of whichever blog a user or anonymous user happens to be looking at.

Initially I used the following: