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Hello all.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
1) I am starting receiving this error:<br><br>
<b>Fatal error</b>: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted
(tried to allocate 545020 bytes) in
<b>/home/mytestsite/public_html/includes/form.inc</b> on line
<b>3678<br><br>
</b>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.<br><br>
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2) For my learning exercises I created 2 scenarios. <br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
I have planed to do the simple one and then use the second one after the
experience of the first one.<br><br>
Questions.<br><br>
From 1).<br>
- 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).<br><br>
From 2) <br><br>
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.<br><br>
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?<br><br>
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.<br>
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.<br><br>
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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?<br><br>
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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? <br><br>
If possible you experts, can share what wah the method you used to learn?
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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.<br><br>
Thanks in advance for all your comments and again I am sorry in advance
for the long post.<br><br>
Jorge Biquez<br><br>
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