Module development and code questions

Hello,

I Have Drupal 4.6 and Gallery 2.1.1 installed. They work fine independently. They work together embedded, except for the site admin menu items. In drupal I get a page not found screen and a log entry that says main.php not found.

Since this is a multisite gallery 2 build I can't figure out how to work with the url re-write mod stuff. I know I could install multiple gallery 2 full installs to accomplish what I need but I am being stubborn about configuring it multisite.

So I believe I need help with the .htaccess lines in Drupal

Here is the info about URL and Path -

I Host on 1and1 with no root access

Gallery 2 Codebase

Base URL: http://myuniquenumbershere.onlinehome.us/gallery2/
Path relative to root: /kunden/homepages/8/myuniquenumbershere/htdocs/gallery2/

Gallery 2 Site

Base URL: http://myuniquenumbershere.onlinehome.us/drupal/maha/gallery2/
Path relative to root: /kunden/homepages/8/myuniquenumbershere/htdocs/drupal/maha.gallery2/

Drupal 4.6 is here (multisite, so I have a sites folder within Drupal)

Base URL: http://myuniquenumbershere.onlinehome.us/drupal/
Path relative to root: /kunden/homepages/8/myuniquenumbershere/htdocs/drupal/

Here is the current .htaccess lines (I know they need cleaned up, I don’t know php and proper coding crap, so forgive me for the sloppiness.

#
# Apache/PHP/Drupal settings:
#

# Protect files and directories from prying eyes.

My database contains un-encoded characters, but how do I encode those using the numeric-style rather than the name-style?

For example...

ü (in database)
ü (does not work in XML)
ü (does work in XML)

I've tried htmlentities(), but that provides name-style and I can't find a way to force the numeric-style.

Hi

Is there way to send data from nodo to another node (node1->node2) like forms POST GET method.
I want to use this becase i have in one node a form data what i want use in another node.

In the core search module, when you specify a node type in the advanced search, when the results are returned it shows the flexinode type such as 'flexinode-3' instead of the human name, say 'classifieds.' Obviously that looks terrible to users. Is there a fix out there for this? I may end up hacking the core module to pass the human name instead of the flexinode name and then convert it before it builds the query.

Jay

What's the drupal way of doing paging and sorting node lists? Here's the thing, I am not showing node teasers because they're flexinode types and so instead I'm putting them all into table rows. I don't know the best way to do paging and sorting. Thanks,

Jay

Just a quick question... Not sure if anyone is experiencing this.

When I place an order using the credit card option in paypalpro, the local checkout works, but when I use the "Fast, secure, checkout with Paypal" option, I get the error:

"

* Communication error. Failed to connect to the authentication server. Please try again later.
* (libcurl error #58: unable to set certificate file (wrong password?))

ANy thoughts??

Thanks,
~J