[support] Drupal 7. Memory error, other questions.

[Jorge Biquez]

Hello all.

I continue with my learning of Drupal 7. I have been constructing a 
site, simple one I guess and I guess I am doing fine. I have some 
questions about what would be the good way to do it Drupal Way. I 
have ideas but not sure. Thanks in advance for all your time and help.

1) I am starting receiving this error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried 
to allocate 545020 bytes) in 
/home/mytestsite/public_html/includes/form.inc on line 3678

Is this a PHP configuration error? I mean an error to change the 
memory for PHP , Right? or one for Drupal? I was checking the files 
in Drupal but I can not find the one to change. The error appears 
once in a while and always when I am in Administrative mode.



2) For my learning exercises I created 2 scenarios.
   a) One where there are LOT of small notes, divided in 4 groups. 
This is a site where I have collected motivational sentences or 
stories, all text. NO users are allowed to enter new ones, just 
comments after validation. Nothing fancy in images, the simplest the 
best but able to have a good image for the user.

   b) Another similar but this one will have a section where people 
can post anonymously . Imagine that this section is where people 
describe their experiences, fears, etc. Of course would be validated 
but people won't need to register to do it. This one also need a 
forum, simple but strong, stable, lot of comments from registered users.

I have planed to do the simple one and then use the second one after 
the experience of the first one.

Questions.

 From 1).
- I guess the error it is from PHP. I just want to be sure since I 
have to ask my ISP to do that change, I am not sure if I have access 
to that file or has to ask them (and pay for it for doing the change).

 From 2)

a) On your experience using it , what's the best option on a theme to 
use? ON my testing marinelli is doing fine but for this exercise is 
too fancy . I want something less graphical.

b) Do you think I can use a forum block or there is maybe a simpler 
module for something that let people to post anonymously?

c) Since both sites will have LOT of post under 4 main categories. 
Inside each category there are some sub-categories and a third level 
inside.. 3 Levels.
What's the best way to do this. I mean have menus that gave me the 
main, sub and sub sub categories while user select them BUT That once 
selected only ALL the post from that category-sub-third level appear? 
Maybe this sound too stupid but I just can not do it yet with 
Marinelli theme. I mean, that if I select any third level menu that 
points me only to all the related information that when created where 
cataloged under that menu only.



3) Something that confuse me a little when reading the documentation 
in general is that mentions that "this or that" is now part of the 
core in Drupal 7. For those of us new t Drupal there is no prior 
experience. Reading today how to solve the last question I guess can 
be done with views and documentation but since it says that almost 
all is included in Drupal 7. I am confused. For those with no 
previous experience with Drupal, what's the best way to study what's 
now included and how it is supposed to work?


4) Finally (I am sorry for the long message). After I finished my 
exercises I GUESS I am ready to do some simple solutions. Then I 
would like to learn how to include my own need but under the 
framework of drupal and the themes. For example I would like to be 
able to include maybe special formats that show information , let say 
of sales from a group of salesmen. I mean , that we can use all the 
tools for validation of users, post, controls, etc, etc but that also 
can work with information from other systems? I know this will take 
time but I would like to learn the core, how interact with it, 
themes, etc. Besides the documentation from the site, any other suggestion?

If possible you experts, can share what wah the method you used to learn?

Mine is to learn do simple things without modifying anything. Do all 
with all the tools, themes, modules, etc and I am sure it can be done 
LOT of good things (I have been studying other sites to see what they 
have done. Even when I do not know what they do or how they did it I 
am sure some do it only with the tools available. Then my step is to 
start trying to include information form other Mysql database . So I 
will study the structure of the database so I can have the same 
structure of permissions mainly.

Thanks in advance for all your comments and again I am sorry in 
advance for the long post.

Jorge Biquez






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