Post installation

Hi Folks,
I am having trouble with a very simple Drupal feature. I have a webinar that I want to store in the filesystem and allow a user access to. I need it to be protected by Drupal, preferably by a role.

how do I add the usersnamen in a menu link ?

I'm using 4.7 and I'm trying to make custom menu's

I would like to set Path: to link to the users edit page of galery2
but this doesn't seem to work:

/v/$username
or
/v/<username>  ?

test.example.com is the new, drupal-powered website I've created. www.example.com is the old website I want to replace. They're both apache2 virtualhosts on the same machine:

/var/www/test.example.com/[logs, htdocs, cgi-bin]
/var/www/www.example.com/[logs, htdocs, cgi-bin]

I run a free community site for local business (another one) with news, activities, photoalbums etc. Most is static, some of it gets retrieved by cgi-scripts from a flat-file db. Members have a FREE memberpage where they ‘showcase’ their business (who they are, what they do, opening hours, contact, etc). Sounds a LOT like profile pages.

Included on the page in a separate div (left column in main content block) are 3 member pictures (scaled down, ftp uploaded in a per member directory on the server), pictures get retrieved through cgi (cgialbum). Members can change their information through a webform that links to the flat-file db.

As the site grows the flat-file is becoming unworkable. I would like to get more people involved in running the site (to add news etc.) and also give each member his own blog. That’s why I’ve been following and testing Drupal since version 4.6.0 and recently installed the latest stable version.

I haven’t quite figured the member navigation yet. After reading a LOT in the forums I have my doubts how to handle it. Should I use bookpages or extended profiles or CCK (tried all of them, read a zillion postings about them, some snippets are not yet ported to 4.7). All have problems and advantages, but what’s best practice?

Bookpages would give me an easy overview and easy navigation:

• Top book page= ‘our members’ + latest (x) blog entries/ stories (news) by the members. I don’t know if this works for book pages? Can book pages contain other blocks of content- if yes, how would I do this? Some of the blog posts would get promoted to the front page.

Hi,

I want to link to a Drupal page from another site. It is a registration page for a CiviCRM install.

When the user clicks this link, I am opening it in a new window. I do not want any Drupal menus or any Drupal anything to be visible. The site that this form is on is another site altogether and will only be used internally. I want the form but nothing else to come up.

How can I do this?

Thanks!

When turning on modules in my Drupal site (eCommerce and CCK) I was getting tons of errors and quickly realized that the included .install files were not installing the database tables as they are supposed to. Out of frustration I manually installed eCommerce's database tables for each of the modules I was using. I am about to do the same for CCK, but does anyone know what is causing this so I can fix it for future use?

Thanks.