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I want to know if there is a way i can use Drupal to build a custom reporing interface for a MySQL database. I will appreciate any response to this effect.

Thanks.

It seems to me that excerpt and cck don't work together.

When I create a new content (of a type created with cck) instead of the teaser i always get the fthe whole text of the node, no matter what I put in the "excerpt" field.
I checked administer >> settings >> content types >> type >> manual excerpt ; it looks ok but it doeesn't work.

Has anyone else had the same problem?

I have written my first module. It is a knockoff of the multi-page Forms API working example. I enabled it in Administer->Settings and all seems well.

That module has created a new Content type. When I create a "new" version of this by going to Content=>Create Content=>NewContentType it creates a new node patterned after the NewContentType.

That all works fine.

OK im not great at php or in fact mysql so any help here to get me going would be helpfull.

I would like to do a vbulletin statistics like block under my forums with the following info :-

Threads: 14, Posts: 34, Members: 37, Active Members: 17

The active members may be achievable by looking at the last login date, say 1 month ago perhaps ?.

Anyone any ideas where to start on this ?

I downloaded the tinymce and put it inside the tinymce directory and then uploaded it to my modules directory (*grin* I just liked saying it like that). But I get this error when loading the admin/modules page:

* warning: drupal_load(./modules/tinymce/tinymce.module): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /homepages/drupal-4.7.0/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 484.
* warning: drupal_load(): Failed opening './modules/tinymce/tinymce.module' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /homepages/drupal-4.7.0/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 484.

I think i already know the answer to this but lets try anyway.

The way threaded lists work is great and i'm all for that but if a member of the site hits the reply button to a wrong comment the entire tree of conversation gets out of sync so to speak.

This has happened recently where one member, unintentionally, hit reply and replied to a quite long conversation within a thread. However his reply was for a seperate part of the topic and now everyone has replied to his comment making the entire conversation very difficult to follow.