How do I do X?

Trying to solve what would appear to be a simple problem, but frankly Drupal's handling of access/permissions/grants has my head spinning.

On one of my sites I have a View that displays a list of phone numbers submitted (via user profile) by users who agree to share them with other users who opt into the same list. The View is working nicely so now the only trick is to elegantly grant view access only to those users who have entered their own phone number into the system. Users who opt NOT to share their phone number need to be excluded from seeing the View/list.

We have received two bogus requests for accounts and denied both, but I would like to know how to set things so these account requests don't even make the queue for our admins.

Specifically I wonder whether it is possible to require, for example, to require that the first and last names fields differ, that the zip code must be either 5 or 9 numbers, or the phone number must have 10 digits with either spaces or dashes. Any of these--or a combination--would have defeated the requests.

Not sure what I'm looking for is even possible so if you have any ideas please let me know.

What I'm trying to achieve can probably best be shown by example. On my IGO web site I've superimposed a "grid" over Iowa and created a Mapstraction view showing the geocahes that occur within selected grid squares. I use a pair of arguments in the URL to this view to specify which grid(s) to filter.

This link shows what I want to achieve.
http://igo.tamatoledo.org/map_caches_by_grid/65%2C66%2C67%2C68/65%2C66%2...

So I spent a few hours trying to figure this out - there has got to be a way and I'm just missing it - especially since Panels is uncharted territory for me!

On some pages I've got an image field that I want to appear in a block or panel in the header (above the "content" section where the rest of the page shows up). I thought a Mini Panel would be perfect because it would pick up the "context" and use that node's image field. I was wrong.

For almost a year now I've been developing Drupal sites using an old desktop PC (running Ubuntu 9.04) as my dev platform. Now I have reason to take my development on the road so I picked up a cheap laptop, configured it to dual boot Windows and Ubuntu 9.10, and managed to get my dev environment for one site setup on it last night.

I've got 6-7 other Drupal sites that I need to setup on it now and am once again pondering if I should load drush and try to get comfy with it. I know what some of you will tell me...'bout time, eh?

Hi,

I'm considering building an app and wondering if this thing can be done easily in Drupal or if it would be stretching the way Drupal works.

Basically, I want to create a node and then attach additional nodes to it. In my case the attached nodes are images and file uploads (probably using image cache and filefield.

OK, I must be losing my mind. Tried posting this twice before and it's gone nowhere? On top of that, I know (or at least believe) there is a way to limit the list of content types that certain roles see when they select "Create Content". Anybody care to remind me where/how that is done?

Hi,

The good folks who manage the my church's library have created an Excel database and they would like to see it on the website (uufames.org). Here is a link the person who is helping them provided: http://sites.google.com/site/uufalibrarycardcatalogtest/

As you can see, what this person has done is to export "printouts" of the Excel file that has been sorted in 3 ways. This seems clunky and weird to me, but I am not quite sure how to proceed, so I'm asking your advice.

Here are my assumptions and questions:

I am converting a site that makes link reference to ../directory/

It assumes ../directory/index.php

Yet when I click on the link I get a "The requested page could not be found." If I extend the URL manually by typing index.php at the end, I get the page I need to in Drupal.

How can I make Drupal behave like my httpd.conf file behaves in these cases?

I have a page in my site that has the following value in the URL path settings textbox:
webteam/index.php
Automatic alias is unchecked

The first time I click on the appropriate menu nav item for the Web Team, the page renders fine and I get the following URL:
http://my.domain.com/webteam/index.php

I have another page in my site for a member of the Web Team called Joe and his page is joe.php. The value in the URL path settings textbox for Joe's page is:
webteam/joe.php