Post installation

... what I need please if anyone would be willing to help me out (I will return the favor by providing this in documentation efforts; fyi, am writer/editor by trade) is the formulas for setting paths correctly. I am in a bind that doesn't allow me to trial and error test my abilities for figuring it out based on examples given. For now, I'm setting things up to serve as site providing info about my profession/work which will not make use of interactive components. Visitors will be readers rather than users. Yes, could have used something else, or handcoded pages, but the idea is that I intend to hopefully make use of all the components later, if all goes well. Currently, use moodle for the workshops/courses I teach and a different tool for my weblog that I like, but if I can get Drupal working well for the purposes I said -- the main interface for visitors who have no care for weblog or learning, just want to know, for example, what my experience is, etc -- then the plan is to use drupal overall for all aspects.

So, the paths for the blocks. Essentially, visitors should see only a navigation menu, which will be comprised of links to home page and to several static pages I create. No log in, no comments, no story, no rss, etc. I've disabled ability to register as user, comments, etc. On the other hand, I want an administrator's page with blocks showing to log in and all the rest, so that I can administer of course and as time goes on, rework/repurpose things accordingly, as I spoke of here.

I would like to create a block with a list of vocabulary terms and the number of nodes in each term, something like the topics block at http://www.kairosnews.org) but I can't figure out how to do it. I am using Drupal 4.4

I have tried using various navigation and menu modules, and I can generate a list of the vocabulary terms, but not the number of nodes for each term.

another request for information please. Just asking simply for where the info is located.

Referencing two unanswered posts:
http://drupal.org/node/view/8897
http://drupal.org/node/view/8918

since the docs point to that as the example for a full-featured module, i was planning to use it as my example for some customized stuff i am doing. the block is enabled and shows up in the 'preview content' page. i've added a sample "recipe" ( just some crap data to make it show up ), but the "most recent 10" doesn't show up in any of the themes i have installed -- some are out-of-the-box, some are custom.... the cron.php is enabled and runs on the half-hour. the content shows up in 'administer' ...

what am i missing?

How do I hide the password of my database? Shouldn't it be encrypted?

As it is now, on the conf.php, doesn't it mean that any would be hacker could, very easily, steal it and use it to login on my account and delete/change the database?

Regards,

Miguel Duarte

I recently added a block of my own making to replace the standard Drupal login block. It contains the following PHP:

global $user;
if (!$user->uid) {
// Change the following line to whatever you want.
return "Login/Create Account";
}

It worked fine and all was well. Then, a couple of days later, I got back to the blocks admin page, and the edit/delete columns for all the blocks - apart from the new one - are blank!

Has anyone else seen this? I'm using Drupal version 4.4.2 with PHP 4.3.2 under Red Hat EL.