I'm all very knew to this Drupal - PHP stuff. But you have to start somewhere.
I want to build simple website with top navigation, then contextual left navigation - just to store simple pages. I've started to read the manual - but can anyone suggest which sections I NEED to read to really get started, and those I can skim over?
I just realised that my teasers are far too long and I want to shorten them. I know that normally when you set a new teaser length you have to go hit the edit tab on every article and save it, but is there a way to reset teasers for many articles at once? It would be a great timesaver, I wouldn't mind going into phpmyadmin if neccessary.
I a writing an application outside of drupal. To display the administration section of that application, I would like to check to see if user is logged into Drupal and that he is 'admin'.
Accordingly, using the cookie set by drupal, how do I determine the username (if any) logged into drupal?