Post installation

The node_import module documentation discusses the need to contain a title and name (or uid) to integrate the imported information into Drupal so that it can be displayed. However, it doesn't provide other information that is important to taking maximum advantage of the capability.

I've looked through the forums and haven't found much help from other users of this module. One post described a set of other SQL fields that appear to be potentially usable by the import module (type, title, uid, status, comment, promote, users, revisions, created, changed, teaser, body), but it's not altogether clear whether all of those fields are accessible by node_import, or what their format should be for a succesful import. Additionally, there are other important, unanswered questions I have. A little advice from someone else on this forum that has experience with node import could probably save me from really messing up my own database. Could someone shine a little sunlight on the following questions:

1. How can I enter values for taxonomy vocabularies associated with the node? For example, say I have a vocabulary of Fruit:{apples:{red,green},oranges,pears}. How is the vocabulary itself identified (does it end up with a field name of 'Fruit', for example). Then, how are values from that vocabulary identified (is the text entered, or position in the hierarchy).
2. If the date-associated entries are not imported does the module default to today?

I have added in my site a new module to borrow books. I need adding dynamically in my page the date of the day the loan is made in. How can I do? Thanks! :)

I have been playing with drupal for a long time. I was primarily drawn to it by it being able to pull in and display rss feeds from other sites. When I was running version 4.2 with the import contributed module it had a way to expire entries on it's own and remove those entries from the database. I see no such function in the 4.4 release candidate. How is drupal managing the databases on these entries.

Hi,
I'sorry for my bad english.
I need some help.
I've installed Drupal 4.3.2, I've createt the admin user, but, new users have some problems with their registration.
When an user try to register him, the system shows this message:
"This required field is missing: Nome"

What can I do?

You can see the problem at http://www.sistech.net/drupal432/

Thanks

This is kind of a weird question, but I hope someone can point me in the right direction on this.

I'm working on a site that uses drupal 4.4 as the backend for the content management. Because there are a finite number of pages that all have fairly specific layout needs, I'm not using drupal for the front-end on the presentation side. So the user uses drupal to get the info into the database, and the data is then pulled out into appropriate places on their site.

I've tried this method on a couple sites and so far, it has been working great, it gives me a lot of flexibility to export the data into multiple formats and gives the content admin one very intuitive user interface.

My question is, I just tried to implement the HTMLarea module on a 4.4 install (I feel like this will be the final piece that will give my content managers EXACTLY the right amount of power for their needs). I got it working fine within drupal. That is to say, I can test a new node out, give it some formatting with HTMLarea, save it, view it in drupal, and it looks great. But when I pull this data out of the database with code OTHER than drupal, there is an odd character (Â) that is present wherever there is a whitespace in the output.

My question is, does anyone have a suggestion for dealing with that? I know this is somewhat outside the scope of what drupal is designed for. I tested the output from HTMLarea, and I can't see where those special characters are being inserted. It looks like it's some processing code between the time the node body leaves the HTMLarea and the time it arrives at the database. I'm not even sure what the purpose of that character getting inserted is? I'm sure there's probably a reason.

Is there a simple authoring module that acts like MT, giving authors a simple way to add an href without coding it by hand? HTMLArea is a bit of overkill for my puposes: my authors just need to be able to make links out of text.

Thanks for the help.