Drupal 4.7.x

After installing drupal on Win2000 IIS5 we hit repeated problems trying to login. I found a few posts with similar problems that were bugs in previous versions, but we were using the latest download.

After much looking through the code it reminded me of an old Microsoft bug in their CGI system:-
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176113/en-us

how do we enable openssl? Can someone give quick-fix.

I have searched forum and was unable to find any relevant information. Please forward me to any helpful topics that you may know of, thanks =)

Scenario

A town I live in, with a striving art community, was aiming for a local art Social Network. A friend of mine took the initiative to start the project (long before I knew him). He successfully acquired city grants (as much as 12 thousand I think) and mass Community support. The initial problem, however, was finding someone to complete the website for this project. The city recommended a local company. Not knowing of anyone else capable of handling a task this large, he hired them; Nothing expensive, they were only $140/hour. He didn't know any better.

Problem

Hi,
I had my site in D4.5 properly funcionning.
I migrated to another hosting. The MySQL changed from 4.1.2 to 5.0.45

Now, I cannot go further than the user page after the login. After that, my admin user get "You are not allowed to acces this content", what ever admin page I choose.

Is theere a special step when importing the DB from 4 into the 5 version of MySQL?
I have checked that all tables have been copied.
The site works well for anonymous users.

What else should I be checking?

Thanks for your help.

Michael

I have created a function to go in template.tpl.php which generates a dropdown box, showing you the latest posts from a particular content type. The amount of items is variable, and you can restrain the number of characters of the titles so your layout will not change when a large title is entered. This is useful is you want to provide a clean and easy way for your visitors to access your nodes.

First I came up with this function to shorten the $title in a nice way:

// Function for cutting the parsed blogitems:
function wordCut($text, $limit, $end) {
	if (strlen($text) > $limit) {
		$txt1 = wordwrap($text, $limit, '[cut]');
		$txt2 = explode('[cut]', $txt1);
		$ourTxt = $txt2[0];
		$finalTxt = $ourTxt.$end;
	} else {
		$finalTxt = $text;
	}
	return $finalTxt;
};

So now I can call wordCut() when I want to shorten a var displayed by my theme. Next thing to do is let the function render my selectbox, with the amount of options I want to display. When you select a title and release the mousebutton, Drupal will direct you to that particular $node_url, useful for displaying on the homepage.

My pages gives errors when I try to send email through my pages which I set in my PC. I try to change the php.ini file in order to set the account and smtp server. I try to set a gmail account. However I can't set it. I'm not sure why, but there is a possibility that the smtp server requires a password. So how can I set the password in php.ini file for the google account.