Drupal 4.7.x

Hi,

I'm trying to set up a block that will show a content that is placed at one of pages. The meaning is that editor can change a content of the page (text, links, images) and it will be automatically shown at one of side block. Is it real? I've tried few modules but all of them give an option to make custom menus, not content.

A have a template.php file in bluemarine theme for theming some elements, such as $links and $search_box. But using it causes problem - no page can be updated. After I press "submit" the empty page is displayed and nothing happens. It must be error, but I cant even understand where. And if I delete or rename or empty template.php the problem dissapears. What can I do?

It strikes me that for many purposes, one needs to have results of a poll only after the poll is closed. Is this easy to do?

I manage an investment blog that is currently using WordPress. However, I am starting to get frustrated with the limitations of WordPress. I wanted to learn whether Drupal might help me enhance my site and handle some of the tasks that I can't currently do in WordPress.

A few months ago I created a "premium" content section on my site for paying members. I use Registered Only plugin in WordPress right now to restrict access. It looks like Drupal has a built in system for this feature. Is this true? Is there anything that can help me keep track of when users' subscriptions are expiring?

The main feature of the premium content section of my site is a listing of stock risk arbitrage opportunities for small individual investors. I'm currently entering in the stock symbol, company name, tender price and links to the SEC filings in to an Excel spreadsheet that then gets the stock price for each stock in the table and then calculates the difference between the stock price and the price the company is offering to buy back the stock for. I then run a mail merge and produce the list of the deals with xhtml markup. I have to run this several times to get reports sorted by each of the different variables. This is a real annoying task.

I noticed the Flexinode module, and it looks like I could set up a node that would have fields I could configure and enter the information for each of these deals into a form. I also spotted the stockapi module that can get stock prices from Yahoo. I was wondering if there was any way I could have a field in a flexinode for stock ticker and then have the stock price automatically added to another field. I also need another field that takes the stock price and calculates the percent gain from the offering price of the stock buy back (entered earlier into a numeric field).

Hi

I was searching through the forums to find a way to hide the email address from being displayed from posts. But it should create a link to a kind of contact form which will send the mail to the hidden email id.

I found a very interesting discussion here

http://drupal.org/node/3907

But there doesnt seem to be a solution yet. Has anyone found a method to filter out email ids from being displayed ?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Karthik

This is the 3rd time this happens... the first two times I just decided to reinstall the database again and do move the files from the last save I made. but this is starting to get annoying. There are no errors and the page is completely blank