Module development and code questions

what rights do I need for files--specifically images? Flexinode stores images in the files directory. I'm told the files dir needs 777 and when it creates files owned by 'nobody' that it's the same as 777. Isn't that a major security vulnerability? What keeps people from jacking up files?

Jay

Basic Form Questions:

Is it possible to display form fields which are disable by default?

How do I re-enable them ?

How do I create a form that will allow to submit on the fly without reloading the page? Is it simple or is it better to wait for 5.0?

I tried using the forms API and change the field type from 'textarea' to 'item' but nothing is displayed.

Thanks

Amnon

Hi,
I'm about to create a new site with more than 1 "sub-systems" (i.e shop/blog/dating & others).
I would like to create a unique user profile for each of those "sub-systems".

It will work like this:
a user that wants to be a 'part' of the site would have a regular (basic) user.
a user that wants to be a 'shopper' would have it's basic user expanded with a shopper-nodeprofile.
a user that wants to be a 'blogger' would have it's basic user expanded with a blogger-nodeprofile.

Hello I have installed the Ecommerce module on a clean Drupal install and I was wondering if there was a way to make the "product listings" that Ecommerce lists to list horizontal instead of vertical? I cant find out how to do this in any of the settings. Thanks!

I'd like to access the $user object from a custom module. Unfortunately it's out of scope. How can I load the $user object for the current authenticated user? Or are there access functions I can use to determine the username and the uid?

Neal

Hi,

I have installed drupal on my main site (http://otg.com),and i have registered my first user as admin(by default they have admin role).Then i have created two users (say test1,test2).What i wanted to do is to diffrentiate the content for diffrenet users.

For example if i logged in as "test1" my theme,content,posts,blogs should be kept as private and when i logged in as "test2" i cannot see the postings ,themes ,contents of "test1" and "test2" have thier own contents.

Consider yahooo geocities as example.In there the repository is same but multiple users accessing different content.I need same kind of scenario in drupal (ie content separation based on users).

How can i achieve this? I don't want to use sub_domains or $db_prefix because if there is n number of users it will duplicate the drupal schema for n times(ie n * 57 tables).Currently i am using drupal 4.7 with apache 2.x and mysql 5 on windows XP.Help needed very urgent

I have the following user_defined menus such as "Notify Me","register Me" etc.But when i logged in as "test2",I should see the same menus but with different contents eg)

"test1" ---->"Notify Me"------>Selected topics like abc,def for "test1"
"test2" ---->"Notify Me"------>Selected topics like xyz,pqr for "test2"

I have checked out the Mysite and organic groups but that is not what i am looking for - Just consider another example as gmail,When you logged in the home page and presentation are same for all the users,the only difference is the data(ie inbox,outbox etc. - I need to achieve the same thing in drupal.