Post installation

Here's is what I would like to do. I want to add a menu item called links that when you click on the word goes to a page that has Fan Sites, Franchise Sites, and Prop sites as headings. Under each heading is the name of the site and the link that the users have submitted and been approved by the administrator / moderators.

Example:

Fan Sites
I Love this town!

Franchise Sites
Arcane Division

I'm in the process of learning Drupal and trying to plan a site for an academic journal (where I work). I've been experimenting with various ways of managing the issue content. Of course, the first option was E-Publish, but wasn't exactly what I needed (or maybe I didn't set it up right). I wanted the ability to have a node associated with each issue, containing the issue cover, the date and volume info, and an "in this issue" sort of teaser. Plus, I wanted to be able to create a block on the front page showing the latest issue. These and other things I wasn't exactly able to achieve with E-Publish.

So I've gone with a different strategy, which seems to be working, but comes with its own challenges. I thought some folks around here might be able to help me:

Here's what I'm doing so far: using flexinode, I've created node types called "Issue" and "Issue Content." Then in my taxonomy, I've got a vocabulary called "Issues" with terms like "Vol 18 No 2". This makes it easier to assign content to an issue (rather than using E-Publish where you have to associate it in a separate interface). The taxonomy_assoc module allows me to connect the "Issue" nodes to the corresponding Taxonomy term.

So step 1, I create a new "Issue," calling it Vol 18 No 2 or something like that. I upload the cover, type in the relevant info, mark the appropriate taxonomy association, and save. Then I create "Issue content" articles and assign them to Vol 18 No 2. So now viewing the category "Vol 18 No 2" displays BOTH the issue node and a list of "articles" belonging to that term. Also I've created a block (snippet found here) that fetches the most recent node of type "flexiblock-4" (Issues), and display that on my front page.

Hi,

I've been testing the cvs HEAD version and I'm completley unclear on the new forms API. I've read the documentation, but it is certainly lacking (or I am missing something or perhaps just misunderstanding something).

How does one override the forms output via themes?

The API makes custom theming of all forms (including those found in core) possible.

I need to duplicate the event module. I would then have the normal event calendar (event.module) and my "party" calendar (mypartyevent.module). I could have implemented this by adding an event flexinode and a party flexinode and have them appeared in the event filter on one calendar, but I don't want filters.

I would like TWO separate calendars with TWO separate database tables, and TWO separate modules. Has anyone tried this successfully ??

On phptemplate I know I can just call a module php function, but I don't know how this can be done for the others.

Vince

I am sure this is treated somewhere on this website, but I couldn't find it... so forgive me for posing an obvious question. Bear in mind that I don't know much - if anything - about MySQL and PHP.

My problem is that I cannot figure out how to create a hyperlink to a URL involving the user ID of the logged in member. In the standard setup the link to 'my account' or 'my blog' does this: it replaces the $uid in the URL ./q=blog/$uid with the actual ID of the member, for example. But just using variables like $uid in the link doesn't work,.. so how do I do this?