How to get your drupal questions answered

Ja, I'm back on irc - will keep the client open, at least - #drupal-za for anyone who wants to join.

Lots of good articles online - but check which version of drupal they're talking about - many times they're outdated.

As for local user groups being around to help people - well yes, to a point - the local user group exists to help build awareness of drupal and our own drupal skills. If by helping others, this is what you mean, then great! But if the local user group is all about free technical support for people who aren't actually learning anything but just getting free help, then I'm much less enthusiastic to help (and rightfully so!).

I visit IRC only when I got a question, I find the Drupal forums to be slow (for me anyway, because I want an answer now! :) ) and you never know if and when somebody is going to answer.
But, I always make a point of answering somebody else's question before I leave.
If you are new to Drupal, don't be shy to help there. Even if you have to go look up the answer for the person (maybe something you've seen somewhere), you actually helping yourself by learning something new about Drupal. The bot (Druplicon) is also very helpful, as it will help you find content, etc. Type a word, followed by '?' Such as 'views?'
I agree with Roger, this group is not the right place to ask questions, you are only reaching a drop(let :)) of the Drupal community.

Oh, and don't forget to feed Druplicon before you leave. :)

Hello
here i want to ask a question.i have created a website in drupal 7 and now i uploaded it on the server but when i start working into administer section after some time my website don't respond to me.and it shows me page not found error page.i am not upto that good in drupal so please help me in this section.

detail about it:when i open me site normally it is working good.but when i try to create some views and add some content then it is being stopped by the server and after restarting my modem it starts again.it allows me to work for little bit of time then it stops working.Rather then this other sites are working properly but it is being stopped.please help me i am getting a serious problem to deal with it.
thanks in advance.

I have the created a module to search records from multiple tables,i have used the following code to do that but it is showing only on result can one tell me that how can i get the multiple records.
here is my code.

<?php
/**
* Implements hook_block_info.
*/
function catagorize_search_block_info() {
$blocks['catagorize_search' ] = array('info' => t('catagorize_search block' ));
$blocks['catagorize_search_result' ] = array('info' => t('search block' ));

return $blocks;
}

/**
* Implements hook_menu.
*/
function catagorize_search_menu() {
$items = array();
$items['catagorize_search' ] = array(
'title' => 'catagorize_search' ,
'page callback' => 'drupal_get_form' ,
'page arguments' => array('catagorize_search_form' ),
'access callback' => TRUE,
);

$items['catagorize_search_result' ] = array(
  //'title'  => 'Search Member' ,
  'description' => t('Search for members.'),
  'page callback' => 'catagorize_search_form_search_result',
  'access callback'  => TRUE,
);

return $items;
}

/**
* Our catagorize_search form.
*/
function catagorize_search_form($form,&$form_submit) {

/* $form['age'] = array(
'#type' => 'select',
'#title' => t('Select Age'),
'#title_display' => 'invisible',
'#options' => array(
0 => t('18 to 21'),
1 => t('22 to 25'),
2 => t('26 t0 30'),
3 => t('31 to 35'),
4 => t('36 to 40'),
5 => t('41 and above'),
),
);

*/
$form['searchfor'] = array(
'#type' => 'select',
'#title' => t('Searching For'),
'#title_display' => 'invisible',
'#options' => array(
'Female' => t('Bride'),
'Male' => t('Groom'),
),
);

  $form['religion'] = array(
'#type' => 'select',
'#title' => t('Select Religion'),
'#title_display' => 'invisible',
'#options' => array(
''  =>t('Select Religion'),
 'HINDUISM' => t('HINDUISM'),
 'ISLAM' => t('ISLAM'),
 'CHRISTIANITY' => t('CHRISTIANITY'),
 'SIKHISM' => t('SIKHISM'),
 'BUDDHISM' => t('BUDDHISM'),
 'JUDAISM' => t('JUDAISM'),
 'ZOROASTRIANISM' => t('ZOROASTRIANISM'),
),

);

$form['lang'] = array(
'#type' => 'select',
'#title' => t('Select Language'),
'#title_display' => 'invisible',
'#options' => array(
'' => t('---select lang----'),
'Assamese/Axomiya' => t('Assamese/Axomiya'),
'Bengali' => t('Bengali'),
'Bodo' => t('Bodo'),
'Dogri' => t('Dogri'),
'Gujarati' => t('Gujarati'),
'Hindi' => t('Hindi'),
'Kannada' => t('Kannada'),
'Kashmiri' => t('Kashmiri'),
'Konkani' => t('Konkani'),
'Maithili' => t('Maithili'),
'Malayalam' => t('Malayalam'),
'Manipuri' => t('Manipuri'),
'Marathi' => t('Marathi'),
'Nepali' => t('Nepali'),
'Oriya' => t('Oriya'),
'Nepali' => t('Nepali'),
'Punjabi' => t('Punjabi'),
'Santhali' => t('Santhali'),
'Sindhi' => t('Sindhi'),
'Telugu' => t('Telugu'),
'Urdu' => t('Urdu'),

 ),

);

$form['country'] = array(
'#type' => 'select',
'#title' => t('Select Country'),
'#title_display' => 'invisible',
'#options' => array(
 'India' => t('India'),
 'Does not' => t('does not'),     

),
);

$form['submit'] = array(

'#type' => 'submit',
'#value' => t('Submit')
);

return $form;

}
//include("http://localhost/x.php");
function catagorize_search_form_submit($form,&$form_submit ) {
$searchfor = $form_submit['values' ]['searchfor' ];
$religion = $form_submit['values' ]['religion' ];
$lang = $form_submit['values' ]['lang' ];
$country = $form_submit['values' ]['country' ];

$_SESSION['searchfor'] = $searchfor;
$_SESSION['religion'] = $religion;
$_SESSION['lang'] = $lang;
$_SESSION['country'] = $country;

drupal_goto('catagorize_search_result');
}

function catagorize_search_form_search_result() {
$header = array(
array('data' => t('First name'), 'field' => 'firstname'),
array('data' => t('Last name'), 'field' => 'lastname')
);

$searchfor = $_SESSION['searchfor'];
$religion = $_SESSION['religion'];
$lang = $_SESSION['lang'];
$country = $_SESSION['country'];

$query = db_select("field_data_field_fname", "fn");
$query->join("field_data_field_lname", "ln", "fn.entity_id = ln.entity_id");
$query->join("field_data_field_gender", "fg", "ln.entity_id = fg.entity_id");
$query->join("field_data_field_religion", "fr", "fg.entity_id = fr.entity_id");
$query->join("field_data_field_language", "fl", "fr.entity_id = fl.entity_id");
$query->join("field_data_field_country", "fc", "fl.entity_id = fc.entity_id");
$query->join("field_data_field_photo", "fp", "fc.entity_id = fp.entity_id");

$query->fields("fn", array("field_fname_value"));
$query->fields("ln", array("field_lname_value"));
$query->fields("fp", array("field_photo_fid"));
$query->condition('fg.field_gender_value', $searchfor);
$query->condition('fr.field_religion_value', $religion);
$query->condition('fl.field_language_value', $lang);
$query->condition('fc.field_country_value', $country);

$result = $query->execute()->fetch();

//print_r($result);
if($result!=''){
$i=0;
foreach($result as $record){
$rec[$i][] = $record;
$i++;
}
return "

";
}
else
{
return "record not found";
}

}
/*$query = db_select("field_data_field_fname", "fn");
$query->join("field_data_field_lname", "ln", "fn.entity_id = ln.entity_id");
$query->join("field_data_field_gender", "fg", "fn.entity_id = fg.entity_id AND ln.entity_id = fg.entity_id");
$query->join("field_data_field_religion", "fr", "fn.entity_id = fr.entity_id AND ln.entity_id = fr.entity_id AND fg.entity_id = fr.entity_id");
$query->join("field_data_field_language", "fl", "fn.entity_id = fl.entity_id AND ln.entity_id = fl.entity_id AND fg.entity_id = fl.entity_id AND fr.entity_id = fl.entity_id");
$query->join("field_data_field_country", "fc", "fn.entity_id = fc.entity_id AND ln.entity_id = fc.entity_id AND fg.entity_id = fc.entity_id AND fr.entity_id = fc.entity_id AND fl.entity_id = fc.entity_id");
$query->join("field_data_field_photo", "fp", "fn.entity_id = fp.entity_id AND ln.entity_id = fp.entity_id AND fg.entity_id = fp.entity_id AND fr.entity_id = fp.entity_id AND fl.entity_id = fp.entity_id AND fc.entity_id = fp.entity_id");

$query->fields("fn", array("field_fname_value"));
$query->fields("ln", array("field_lname_value"));
$query->fields("fp", array("field_photo_fid"));
$query->condition('fg.field_gender_value', $searchfor);
$query->condition('fr.field_religion_value', $religion);
$query->condition('fl.field_language_value', $lang);
$query->condition('fc.field_country_value', $country);
$result = $query->execute()->fetchAssoc();
*/