[support] Question regarding building a start page

[Christian Schoepplein]

Hi Henning, John and list,

On Mo, Feb 02, 2009 at 10:17:52 +0100, Henning Sprang wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:12 AM, John Fletcher <net at twoedged.org> wrote:
>>>   print node_page_default();
>>
>> Ahh very nice, I didn't know that trick.  I think your last idea is the best
>> for this case!

Thanks, very cool, I will try this.

>Another thing is the "frontpage" module. But as far as I see, it's not
>internationalization-capable...

I've installed the module and played around with it a little bit. Maybe 
the module has some problems with Drupal 6 or I did something wrong, but 
I was only able to get a startpage for authorized users working only :(. 
Annonymous visitors of the page got an eror 403 or 404, the page wasn't 
accessible somehow.

Another problem is that I still not know how to build nodes with dynamic 
content. I'd like to build a page with an overview of the last 10 
created articles or pages and put some static text below that overview. 
Such a node would be a good start page for my needs but as long as it is 
not clear to me how to build such a node the frontpage module can't help 
me really, because I also have to specify a node for my frontpage or put 
the right content (normal text and maybe php code) into the input fields 
for the body of the nodes that should be presented as front page. How 
can nodes with dynamic content as described above be created? Do I 
really have to specify php code into the input field of the node bodys 
or is there another possibility? Or do I have to use views or something 
simmilar?

Sorry for the beginner questions but that is one big point that it is 
still not clear to me. I started to read the Drupal Cookbook and hope 
that the understanding how drupal is working gets clearer to me then.


>Henning

Cheers,

  Schoepp