Drupal 6.x

I've been tasked with creating a front (home) page that will feature a single top story (feature area) that could be one of several different content types: an article, a standalone video or a standalone slideshow. This area may have content that remains in place while other stories, chronologically listed, come and go below it.

I was planning to create/modify custom content types for article, video and slideshow using CCK and to use Views to find which specific item is designated as the top story for display. Site editors will somehow designate which particular node will be the top story. My question is: how do I make the selected top story node the exclusive top story so that it "unflags" former top stories as top stories? I hope that makes sense.

My initial thoughts were:

1. Add a "top story" checkbox to each of entry forms for each of the three content types in question. When the checkbox is checked, there is some kind of Ajax call that alerts the editor "this will replace 'story such and such' as the top story, do you want to proceed?" And then when the node is saved/created, it will set the former node to 0, false or whatever for "top_story." Problem is I have no idea how to do that.

Help!

I'm new to Drupal, but a friend has been trying to persuade me to give it a go for ages. I am off work this week so thought I might give it a go.

So far, I have been working on it for 4 hours and can't get past the installation screen "Database Configuration".

When I submit the details I move on to a page with 'Home' at the top. Three stages on the left are ticked (Choose Language, Verify Requirements, Set Up Database), Install Site is highlighted as the current page with Configure Site and Finished yet to go.

However, this Home page has completely blank content and if I navigate away from the site and back, I get the message "This Web Page cannot be found."

I have a MySQL set up and my hosting company has verified it is working fine. The db is funkymin_wl and the username is the same (I won't share the password for obvious reasons). I am definitely typing it all in correctly.

I have to say that the documentation is extremely long winded and very non-user-friendly so I may have done something wrong - but I did follow an online video of someone setting it up and I did everything identical as the guy on screen - and I got the error when he got the next page.

ANy suggestions would be most appreciated.

Thanks

Paul C

I have my first dev site up and running and loving Drupal.

I am using Ubercart for files downloads and membership and all is working well.

My problem is that the site has a number of membership roles. The first being free and allowing the users to pay for file downloads. The second being a full member, and allowing free downloads of the same files. I love the way Ubercart limits the number of downloads and sets a time limit to download them and again, this works fine for standard users. I've not found any clear way to do the same for the full members using the same system and after spending a long time trawling through the support forums both here and on the Ubercart site I thought I'd see if anyone else had managed to do the same thing?

I know I could set the downloads manually but would really like to keep track of everything in one place.

Ubercart is great but I am open to other options. Does anyone have any alternative recommendations or ways to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance.

I have a working flash application which reads in a configuration file.
However, when putting the configuration file in the same path as my SWF, it does not work.
Only in case it is put at the root level (www/ ) , it works.

How can this be solved as I need the flash configuration file (which is a .txt file) in the same folder.

thanks

I've setup a number of single language drupal sites but have never done a fully dual language site before. Most of the process seems clear to me, but I have a couple of doubts about the initial install.

I'm going to install the English 6.15 core. Should I also download the drupal Spanish core, or will selecting the language in /admin/settings/language fetch any additional files that I might need?

If I use subdomains for language (eg esp.site.com & eng.site.com) do all I need to is point my DNS settings at the drupal directory?

Thanks for any guidance you can give.