Post installation

Hi,

Iam a newbie to drupal, just now installed.

I dont know how to use the default upload module in drupal. I have setted the configuration of upload module and enabled them.
How to give a page to upload and hook that to upload functionality? do i need to create a page in html to upload, then how to link the upload button to upload functionality. Or do i need to download some other module.

Need: I have to allow some users to upload images(gif and vsd) into the database or directories. And also allow them to view all the images.

Firstly, I am sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this.
I have just installed Aggregator2 and it seems brilliant. Everything I wanted to achieve and more, in terms of finding something out of the box.
My only question is:
Can you get it to display the incoming feed's images? (ie within the feed text, not just the logo at the top).
The main Drupal aggregator did not do this by default, but I found it easy to add the tag to make it work. Not so sure with this, as I am not much good with php.

hey

i can happily post to the front page with my admin account but i would like to create other users whose posts go straight to the front page rather than going to a moderation queue or have to manually promote them with the admins username.

any ideas?

By default, drupal shows usernames in nodes. Can I change this to display full names (defined as a custom field in the user profile) instead of the usernames? I'm not a hard-core PHP programmer so can anyone help me or at least point me in the right direction? I guess I have to start in the coding of themes, right?

In general, my question is, how many options are currently available to Drupal users for handling high traffic? I'm looking at www.cmsmatrix.org and don't know much about the technical details on this. But I'll ask the following anyways.

Is load balancing possible with Drupal even though the core may not explicitly make this option available? The javascript pop-up text on cmsmatrix seems to say that core must support this, in order for load balancing to be an option.

What about database replication? Is this already possible if one were using PostgreSQL with Drupal? In other words, if the database is capable of this, does it not depend on Drupal's core? Otherwise, could the core of a CMS provide this capability, though the database might not have it alone (MySQL?).

How useful is static content export in high traffic situations and what would it take to make this available as a Drupal option?

I see Drupal can throttle itself but shutting down features. That's fine as a back-up for emergencies, but I'm more interested in keeping functionality and content available under high loads.

Thanks for your indulgence. Handling ramped-up loads is a key criterion for me.

Several PHP CMSs have load-balancing and other features here, but they also use PHP4's inefficient OOP features (I read on Zend that PHP 5 has new implementation of OOP that is much more efficient). I guess the best situation would be to have a PHP 5 CMS (with or without OOP) with load balancing.

Hi,
Lately, I've been working in a project that demands that the data that is entered from the users must be validated. I wrote the whole code in php, and it worked fine outside Drupal (The required fields must be filled and the optional ones must not), with a javascript form validator (gen_validatorv2.js from www.javascript-coder.com).

When I included the php code in my drupal site (include 'blablabla/form.php'), the validation didn't worked.