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Hi!

I'm just starting to get into Drupal and so far I really like what I see. It looks like a bit of a learning curve but I think that the balance of flexibility and easy of use is about where I like it. I wonder if someone can help me with a question?

I'm trying to create a website to showcase videos. I want to have each video available in quicktime, windows media, mpeg-1, and flash. The user should be able to choose which of these formats he wants, and a cookie will be set so that each time he goes to a new node, it will default to his preferred format. Each of these formats would probably have a low-bandwidth and high-bandwidth file, too, for a total of 8.

So obviously I don't want a new node for each of these, because that would be a mess. Is there an obvious way to handle it?

Here's what I've come up with:

Host an image gallery with Acidfree. Each image is the thumbnail to a video. Then, in the text area of the node, insert PHP code that gets the cookie from the browser if it exists and displays either the user's preferred video or else the default video. But I can't figure out how to access the filename of the image in the current node from the PHP environment.

On my site, each video has a unique name. For example, video1.mov, video1.wmv, and video1.jpg all reference the same video, just different formats (with video1.jpg being the thumbnail). Within the text area of a node I basically want to embed the video file by getting the name of the image that the node was created for, and then appending the correct format (.mov, .wmv, etc).

i'm using IPOWERWEB and i can only setup a cron daily in the setup. is there a way to run cron hourly via some script? tks

I have set the file upload for admin and authenticated users to 40m and enabled all content types for uploads.
I have also increased php.ini file_max to 40m.
yet, when I try to upload as admin user, the upload fails and I get these error messages below.

does anyone know what is wrong? how can I fix this file upload problem?

susan

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Warning: POST Content-Length of 22304280 bytes exceeds the limit of 8388608 bytes in Unknown on line 0

How do I remove the "Submitted by xxxx on xxxx..." in the small tags on each node, as I just want to use the system to manage a simple web site.

Or is there a way to switch this feature on and off? Maybe just off on the home page?

Can someone help me make the following changes in bluemarine?

1.) On a node listing page, I would like to have a separator (a line or dotted line) between each node, the way the civicspace theme does it.

2.) Have a vertical line on either side of the main content.

I looked through the css for a few hours and experimented, but I couldn't do these two things, although I was able to make some small changes

I would appreciate any help that fellow drupallers can give.

What file do I get into to change 'You are not authorized to access this page.'?? I wanted it to say something like "You must be logged in to view this page."

Thanks!