Drupal 4.7.x

I program in another language, not php and I'm also running a Drupal site on the same server. I'd like to create a Drupal account for my users so that their same login will work with both websites. I can go ahead and write a script to enter all the correct information into the Drupal database no problem, my question is, will that work? is there anyone who has done this?

What about the password field? I can't use plain text.. any hints on how to encrypt the password to the same specs as Drupal?

Thanks a lot.

Okay, I'm probably just stupid, but if I've got a node with, say, three comments, how do I get them to display so that the oldest one is first?

I'm talking about:

STORY
|--comment1
|--comment2
|--comment3

as opposed to:

STORY
|--comment1
   |--comment2
       |--comment3

Ok, after much fiddling, testing, and beer here is what I've found. This relates to http://drupal.org/node/41808

This Skype php snippet worked on Drupal 4.6.0, 4.6.2, and 4.6.3. It, however, did not work properly on Drupal 4.6.4, 4.6.5, 4.7.0-beta1, or 4.7.0-beta2.

Basically, after the security release of 4.6.4 this snippet stopped working properly and started giving these sql syntax errors:

I'm running phptemplate, I disabled clean URLs cause they would yield white pages on my Debian Linux server. I'm getting these errors when I test drupal locally:

warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in D:\xampplite\htdocs\wizards\modules\forum.module on line 676.

Is there a way to make a page in drupal that uses a frame to pull from a different site/page? If so How?

upgraded from 4.6.5 to 4.7b2. no problems, went swimmingly tra la. went thru the settings, added a new module (logintoboggan) -- and then the left sidebar went away. boom. and if i try to go to my home page, i get "
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: format_name() in ... phptemplate.engine on line 275"

attempts to go to other pages yield other undefined function errors

looking at my source code, i see that the left-sidebar portion of phptemplate's page.tpl.php is being left out. that would explain the lack of a left sidebar -- but why, santy claus, why?