Post installation

changing an existing node and save it produces the following error:

warning: Attempt to assign property of non-object in W:\www\modules\flexinode\field_image.inc on line 47.

Any idea what could be wrong.

Hi everyone!

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?

Thanks in advance!

swathes

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?

For the record I am running OS X 10.4.7 on a powerbook G4. I have just installed Drupal 4.7 in my Sites Directory in my user folder (localhost). I am running apache 1.3 (I think), PHP 5.1.2 and mysql 4.1.14.

I am a newbie to Drupal and have just installed my first site. In doing so I followed the directions in the lullabot videocast on setting up Drupal. (By the way, the guys at lullabot are fantastic with all of the educational materials that they are putting out. Kudos to them!)

Everything went beautifully until I went to check my settings, only to find that the "files" directory was not created automatically. The videocast suggested that I should create the "files" directory manually which I did, within the finder. When I came back to the drupal admin>settings page it acknowledged
the addition of the "files" directory, however it gave me an error which read " The directory files is not writable ", which I assume happened
because I did not create the directory in the command line console (?). In any case, here I am stuck, not knowing how to address this problem. The videocast suggested that I should give the server write permissions , but gives no indications as to how to do so... Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

Since I am a designer (I can hear the groans now...)and not a programer, I am only vagely familiar with the command lines of the terminal interface, however I am really good at following explicit instructions.

hi,

i've also yet to work this out, and also have it displayed in the blocks ..