Deprecated - Drupal core

I would like to suggest to include a module/theme installer in one of the next versions of drupal.
Take a look at e.g. Joomla. Installing any extensions is easy:

1. Download the extension (which comes as compressed file, similar to drupal)
2. Log into the backend and open the installer
3. Point to the extension (the compressed file you just downloaded) or copy&paste the download URL
4. Click on "Install"

Done.

In Drupal 5.1, bootstrap.inc, I found the following algorithm for getting the $base_url:

hey geys,
I hope I'm posting this in the right place.
I've seached and found nothing of this task being accomplished.

I'm customizing a theme and would like my top primary links the same as Drupal Core primary tabs.
I'm creating a div section between image header and main content for the tabs.

Resource Links and info would be much appreciated!
Thanks guys,
~RD

Greetings guys,

I want to rise a question concerning approaches to implementing user profiles in Drupal once again. I came across with a necessity to valuably extend user profiles many times and at the moment I see that core profile.module can't do it at all. We switched to nodeprofile/nodefamily modules and found them much more flexible since they were bringing CCK to user system.

On the one hand, I know about approach 'everything as a node' and understand that it is not currently in Drupal core. On the other hand, I have clients who requested features which I can't implement using core profile. At the moment we removed core profile.module from our own "Drupal build" (set of modules our company uses for web site development) and switched to nodeprofile.module

Many months ago Wundo redeveloped profile.module 4.7 and created 'profile new generation'. We ported it for Dsrupal 5.0 and developed several plugins to extend user profile. The new core was extremely raw and plugins were not as powerful as CCK plugins are. As I understood later, profile new generation was stopped and abandoned.

I also found that core profile.module evolution is extremely slow - there were almost no valuable (principal, architectural) changes since 4.7 till 6.0 (dev).

I want to emphasize two huge disadvantages of core profile:
1. No ability to extend profile (create custom fields).

Could a hook be added to user.module that would be called when the user has tried and failed to login? This would be added to the user_login_validate() function in the same block as the messages "Sorry, unrecognized username or password" and "Login attempt failed".

Sooooooooooo...all I did was change my log in info and now I'm locked out. I don't have to approve new users so that wouldn't be the problem. When I log in with the new password and username, it tells me that my username is blocked or inactive. Guys seriously....how the hell do I get back in? This really really blows. I believe I have changed my log in info in the past and never had this problem. Please...I desperately need an expert's help.