Privatemsg: An internal messaging System

The Privatemsg module allows users to send messages to each other without having to share their e-mail addresses. Once the module has been enabled, an inbox link will appear in the navigation menu. "Write to author" links are included in posts, allowing users to write private messages instead of commenting openly. Allowing users to communicate directly with each other is an important part of community building.

Event: set times for content (EoL Drupal 5.x)

Event module is not a currently active project. Last release was for Drupal 5. Discussions are ongoing about taking over the namespace of the module and restarting development at Drupal 8.

File system settings

See the official online handbook for more information about securing private files. The information about private files starts at the "Managing file locations and access" header.

Drupal provides configuration settings to control whether, and how, users and administrators can upload files for use by Drupal.

Specify 403 and 404 error pages

Drupal's page error messages are meant to be direct and to the point. If you want page error messages that are a little more user-friendly, Drupal allows you to customize them.

  1. Create two nodes, one for each kind of page error (403 and 404).
  2. Determine the ID number of the node you wish to redirect users to. One way to determine the node's ID number is to visit the node and look at the number after the last slash in your browser's address bar. This is your node's ID number.
  3. Now enter the paths to your nodes in the appropriate boxes on your error reporting settings page. For example, if the node ID number for 403 error codes is "83," you would type "node/83" into the "Default 403 (access denied) page" setting.
    • Drupal 6 mysite.com/admin/settings/error-reporting
    • Drupal 7 mysite.com/admin/config/system/site-information

Because you are creating nodes, they will show up in the tracker and popular content blocks and anywhere else real nodes would be display. If this isn't acceptable, there is a contributed module called Custom Error that avoids this problem.

BlogAPI: post from blog tools

The Blog API module, included in Drupal 5 & 6 and available via the separate BlogAPI contrib module for Drupal 7, enables a post to be published to a site via external GUI applications. Many users prefer to use external tools to improve legibility and posting responses in a customized way. The Blog API module provides users the freedom to use the blogging tools they want but still have the blogging server of choice.

When this module is enabled and configured, you can use a variety of programs to create and publish posts from your desktop. Blog API module supports several XML-RPC based blogging APIs such as the Blogger API (outdated) (new Blogger Data API, MetaWeblog API, and most of the Movable Type API.

For more information on using software with the Blog API, see the Creating new content section of the End user Guide.

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