Post installation

I get the feeling this is not a new question, but I was looking for an updated answer.

I just got into Drupal and I just noticed that there is a big gaping hole when it comes to input validation. Simple things like phone number validation, email validation, zip code validation, custom input error messages, and many other nice input validation features seem to be missing. I would think that for a CMS framework user input validation would be an important issue. I of coarse realize that there is not one universal input validation solution for everything, but getting away from roll your own everything for the basics every single time is the whole reason I wanted to get into a framework in the first place.

I have few questions:

1. Is input validation built in? Is it some super cool feature that I is right in front of my face that I can't see? If so could someone show me where to get started with it?
2. How could this be something that has been overlooked by a CMS framework?
3. How are people doing this with Drupal?
4. Is there a prefab solution (module) that can help with input validation?
5. Is there a sexy AJAX solution out there, or will one be coming out soon?
6. Is there a group of developers working on a module for this? If so, I can help out. I am not so good with the existing Drupal API or the hooks but I am good with my JavaScript, PHP, and RegEx knowledge.

If someone could help me out, I sure would appreciate it.

We just upgraded from 4.6 to 4.7. For some reason we've lost teaser node titles. Blogs, stories, pages, no titles. Titles appear once I click "read more," but it's looking pretty funny on the titleless pages of teasers.

Might be a no-brainer, but I appreciate any help :P

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Hello,

I have some menu items that link to "a href="/page#section". When I hover over them in the menu the url that shows at the bottom of the browser is correct - http://host/page#section but when I click on them the # is converted to %23 somehow and I get http://host/page%23section which doesn't work.

How can I stop this behavior - escape the # in the menu?, put some other ascii code for # in?

Thanks.

Hello all,

I just installed Drupal 4.7 today and have been lots of fun with it already! What an awesome program.

I do, however, have one small problem. I'm trying to make it where my users will be able to attatch a specific filetype. Now, I have altered the "upload.module" file where it SHOULD allow my new file format to be uploaded, but it only works propperly in FireFox. Most of the users that will be frequenting this site will be Intenet Explorer Users. Is there another file I have missed which defines the file extentions available for download in IE?

I am having problems when I will go attach some file using the upload module. The problem is that when I click on submit and the process parently is used but the file not is attached. I saw some report about this problem but don´t have solution about this problem, I need a fix or special configuration.
The version of the drupal that I am using is 4.7.2

excuse me my bad English

I have been working with 4.6 before, but now in 4.7 I see that the super user cannot set a user to authenticated any more. Then I also wonder how a user can become authenticated? I have a test site up on a local linux box and i had a peek in the users_roles table and there is no user that has the authenticated role. I also wonder why none has the anonymous role there. Shouldn't at least user id zero be anonymous? Is there a documentation or discussion related to this change?