Drupal 4.7.x

Hello,

I noticed in the announcement of the next test version of 4.7 that free tagging is included.

What is free tagging? What are the benefits? Does it have anything to do with passing tages to Technorati properly?

Thanks!

I've got a list of content (books) for a club that we'd like to poll and get a top ten list for.

Two data entry approaches come to mind
A:
--- list of books ---
First place : (drop down list of books)
Second place : (drop down list)
etc.

Or a number field by each book.

Of course, tie-breaking, and evaulating how a 1st place + 3rd place entry ranks against 2x2nd place entries is a problem. (Is there an established algorithm for this?)

Hi,

First of all, I'm pretty new to Drupal, but I must say I'm very, very impressed.

For my second site in a Drupal week, I'm creating a client extranet for a company. In the previous site we sent out usernames and passwords to all the customers and told them how to log in. There were quite a few problems with this.

What I'd like to do now is just send out permission codes and let the users choose their own name and password. The registration page would need to have a field to enter the code and only accept if the code was valid (checked against a formula or list).

I started mucking around with Drupal 4.7 today. I was surprised by the total change to the forms API. I had already written a few modules for 4.6.3 and it was too much of a PITA to rewrite all the code manually. So instead I took a couple of hours to write a PHP script that would help me. Just put this somewhere in your drupal directory and access it through a browser.

When upgrading to this version - do I need to first upgrade my 4.6.3 version to 4.6.4?

It would have been nice to know that
form_submit() was not going to be supported in 4.7
Where should I have been looking to have known this ahead of time?

Some lessons could be taken from the php.net manuals which clearly mention what functions are deprecated, and which ones are preferred over others for efficiency reasons.