Post installation

does anybody how i can create a form that will create a node for me? I need to have very specific input from users that in turn will create a static node with the information i get from the form.

I have a Drupal site that started to bog down badly recently. I found menu.inc was timing out. I looked that the menu table in the database and I see hundreds and hundreds (sorry for the vague count) menu items like this:

Edit Delete 612 1 node content 0 16

There are 1281 menu records and most of them are of this type, identical except for the MID.

What are they and are they the cause of my problem?

My boss is going for Drupal in a big way. He wants me to get all of the modules that are currently available on this site. Is there a smart way to do this, i.e. something less tedious than doing all of the DL's individually? I could write a script, I suppose, but don't see how this would be faster than just doing the point and click thing. Is there a master CVS directive I could use?

My site's authorisation for non-registered users is set so that they cannot add content (e.g. Blogs). The message that is displayed is "You are not authorized to access this page. " - I would like to change that to something else - can anyone tell me where that message is sourced from?

Thanks

Lev

How do I make it so that certain members have to have their forum topics verified before they get created/added but allow others to automatically publish theirs (without making them administrators)?

What I'm after is something like the comments fields where you can delegate ecrtain roles that require to have their comments validated, yet others get published immediately.

I'm guessing I am missing a setting somewhere?

I'm writing a custom profile form page, that will lead the viewer through different sections. I'm able to display each section properly, using categories, but instead of having a submission at a category go back to the profile view (which seems to be the default), I want a form submission to go to the next category form page.

What function should I use for this?

I've been looking at drupal_goto as a solution, but after reading the docs, it looks like that will go to the new page immediately. I'm not sure how safe that is, and if I do it, when should I? During the hook_user 'update'? 'Validate?'

A year and a half ago, in this topic, moshe weitzman suggested using a combination of menu_set_active_item and menu_execute_active_item. However, menu_execute_active_item doesn't seem to exist any longer.

Any ideas? Maybe there's an easier way to set a form's destination page without all this hassle, and I just don't know about it yet.

Thanks,
Aaron

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