Post installation

Hi,

I have been struggling to implement the form api for quite a few days. But I cant seem to get through. I just need to know the basics as in

for a simple form of the type

user - textname for userfield

submit button.

When user enters name and clicks on submit button his name should go to a page where in a php code will print the content of the get or the post array.

Please can someone post a small code desciribing this. It would be of great help for the beginners to build upon. thanks a million in advance

Drupal 4.7.2

What would be the best way to set Forums to Private?

I'm thinking about using Forums for internal and private company communications. (non-public-member site)

Registered users created by Admin only - set to on

It looks like I might be able to do this a couple of different ways.

Looking for the simplest and dependable way and wondering what others are doing

I finally set up my forum and tweaked it the way I wanted. I decided to add a test post into it. After I made my post and clicked on forums on the navigation menu it just showed that post and removed all the containers and forums. I deleted the post and now I get a blank screen with the title as 'Forum'. How can I get the containers to show again on the forums page?

I am using pathauto and taxonomy.

http://www.thespeculatingmaverick.com/index/forum

Drupal 4.7

I love the functionality of the RSVP module but I'm confused. Is there a way to invite every user/member on the site? It's asking me to paste in the e-mails.

I don't see a way within drupal even to get access to users e-mails (if in the case I wanted to submit a comma delimited list of e-mails to invite). I can do this through "select init from users" but that makes it difficult for users who don't have access to the database.

Thanks in advance, I would really appreciate any advice on this. :-)

I have installed the latest gallery.module to work with the latest gallery release. Gallery works as expected in standalone but when I access it from within the drupal site using the gallery module, I get what seems to be weird permissions behavior. No matter what I set the permissions as for my main gallery album (and all subgalleries) the pictures aren't visible unless you're logged in. I've tried giving the group "everybody" all access to everything and it works outside of drupal, but not through drupal.

Is there a way ?

1) setting/module in drupal to help serve page requests as gzip
2) apache must be configured to do it automatically (how do I check if it actually does ?)
3) can configure/instruct your server to do it through php.ini or htaccess (how do I do it ?)

I have seen some discussion on this but its mostly quite old.

Is there a possibility to have cached pages gzipped in a future release ?