Post installation

IRC Server: 
<?php
$server="localhost";
$port="6667";
if(!@fsockopen($server, $port)){
echo "Offline";
}else {
echo "Online";
}
?>

The @ in if(!@fsockopen($server, $port)){ ... should halt the error, but it shows up anyway. It will halt it on any non-drupal webpage. How can I stop the error message from appearing?

Thanks,
Austin

Hi all. Is it possible to completly disable the ability for users to register for events with eventfinder? All I want them to be able to do is find events with eventfinder. Thanks.

I've been playing with Drupal for a few days, and am no longer in any doubt that it is the way forward for what I want to do. The next step seems to be working out what is provided, what is provided by modules, and what I need to write myself. Seems like I have a lot of research to do in this area. :o)

My first question regards the built in functionality that controls what different roles see on screen. My website needs 3 different roles: "anonymous," "user" and "adminuser". For the most part, the anonymous user will not - indeed, must not - get to see the pages the other 2 roles can see. Adminuser gets a superset of what a normal user gets.

Question 1: what facilities can I read up on that will tell me how to control which blocks and content get shown based on role type? For example, I want a different menu to appear for an adminuser than for a normal user, and someone who hasn't logged in yet shouldn't be able to see that menu at all.

Question 2: are these controls enforced - that is, if the user happens to know they want a certain page, can I ensure they can't get to see that page until they've logged in even if they type the URL in directly? If not, where do I start learning about how to enforce restrictions of certain pages?

Question 3: how can I control the primary and secondary menu links such that different roles get to see different menus?

Apologies if these have all been answered before - I'm feeling a little swamped with information at the moment.

Is there a way using which I can provide the registered users on my website to have their own photo albums that if they want can share with other people or keep them private for themselves only.
If there is way to do it then please let me know.

Thanks all drupalholics outhere

how to make alternating background color in forum? can someone help please.. tks

I'm looking to set up a site (it may end up being multiple sites if need be to make it work), where different groups have permissions to add content to different areas of the site.

For instance, the following site structure would work for my needs:

- Main Site
-- Section 1 (Group A can add content here only)
-- Section 2 (Group B can add content here only)
--- Subsection 2a (Group C can add content here only)
--- Subsection 2b (Group D can add content here only)