Post installation

I have installed Drupal 4.6.6 on my computer as a test deployment. The installation went smoothly and I got the system up and running. The only problem is when I tried to create a user account - it appears that I need to run a mail daemon!

Since I would like to set this up in the intranet and our e-mail is through an external ISP, it is possible to create user accounts without a mail daemon (server) running here? I am quite happy to go into MySQL and modify the tables by hand if that's what it takes.

Also, how do I remove the "create account" bit?

TIA

Here's the test site I'm working on: http://www.davidgrant.ca/baldingfordollars/support_balding_for_dollars

I'm just wondering.. it would be really great if i could index content that was outside the drupal directory .. is this at all possible?

I have been using fckeditor, but I don't really like it so I want to use Nvu to make content for nodes. I tried just copying and pasting the code but it doesn't work. Is there a template or something that I can use or do to make it come out pretty in drupal? Thanks

brett

hello all,

i'm just starting to teach myself php, and am trying to learn through this project i set myself. i only know a few php functions, and am still confused about how to use objects (as opposed to arrays or strings), so any tips would really help me learn.

i want a page that lists all the users of the site in categories according to a selection they've made on a custom profile field. i'm thinking
category1
User1
user2
user3
category2
User4
user5
user6

please have a look at what i've done, and how it's not working: http://www.communityagroecology.net/_aaa/?q=node/3

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', true);
ini_set('html_errors', false);
///queries:
$result = db_query("SELECT * from {users} as u,{profile_values} as p where u.uid=p.uid ORDER BY u.name ASC");
$categories_query = db_query("SELECT options FROM {profile_fields} WHERE fid = '2'");
$user_category_query = db_query("SELECT value FROM {profile_values} WHERE fid = '2'");
$user_category = db_fetch_array($user_category_query);
////make list of categories and turn it into an array:
$categories = db_fetch_array($categories_query);
$categories = implode('', $categories);
$categories = explode('.', $categories);
////print the name of the category
foreach ($categories as $categories_value) {
    print "<strong>$categories_value</strong><br>";
////loop through every user
while ($user_info = db_fetch_object($result)) {
////check to see if this user is in this category
if ($user_category['1'] == $category_value) {
////print out the user's info
    if($user_info->uid){
    $output .= '<img src="/'.$user_info->picture.'"> ';
       $output .= $user_info->mail;
       $output .= ' ';
       $output .= $user_info->name;
       $output .= '<br>';
    }
print $output;
} //if $user_category['1'] == $category_value
} //while loop through every user
} //foreach $categories
?> 

thanks in advance,
-ryan

Hello! I've been playing around with the installation of Drupal 4.6, got it running perfectly on my server thanks to Fantastico, but I have a few stupid questions hopefully someone could answer for me?

- How can I use new themes? I downloaded a new theme from the themes section of this site and extracted the folder as well as uploaded it into the themes directory... But the Admin panel doesn't acknowledge it.