Post installation

I have an existing 4.6 drupal installation. I want to start beta testing 4.7 using the data from my current database. I've successfully installed a copy of 4.7 and it works.

to create the database via phpmyadmin i used an emptied mysql database and uploaded the 4.7 "database.mysql" file to create the correct tables, however if i attempt to upload the 4.6 database dump i encounter timeout errors and if i load a single important table like "book" the data uploads but i get the error below. I know verry litle about dbases, don't have command line access.

I posted this earlier but it was badly worded and people misunderstood what I was asking. So, I'll try again.
I want to attach another database to my drupal site. Users must be registered on this db to use it. I was hoping that I'd somehow be able to simply mirror drupal user create/update/delete functions on this other db. In other words, if someone registers on the drupal site, that registration is automatically reflected in the attached db. Same with any user account modifications including the delete account function.

I'd like to include a search form inside my flash header file. The problems is, I can't figure out how to get flash to submit the field drupal uses for search terms "edit[keys]". Is there a different non-array style term I could use like "keys" instead of "edit[keys]". Or, is there a way that I can get flash to submit "edit[keys]".

Thanks.

Hi, all.

I have a quick question for anyone that can help:

I came across the l() function the other day, and came to realize I should be using it in my code to generate my links.

I wrote the following link before I found this function:

I deleted (or thought I did) a forum topic. It no longer shows up under the forum admin panel but still shows in the "new forum topic" and the "recent forum topic". So the users are now clicking on it and (like me) getting a "You are not authorized to access this page." message. What am I missing here? Thanks in advance.

Hello!

I have created a drupal site for my organization. What I am trying to find is a nice and easy way to keep track of user-specific contact information, such as mailing address, phone number, etc. Looking through the module list and searching the forum didn't reveal much.