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'OR' not multilingual in search module?
by Edward Peters 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

As far as I can see, Drupal's search engine does not allow us to translate the 'OR' separator offered in the instructions when no result is found. This English word seems to be hard coded into the module. Does anyone have any experience/solution on this issue? Many thanks, Edward Peters Oxford, UK www.iofc.org

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Local repository best practices
by Angela Byron 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

I've been doing some research for a client on best practices surrounding repository management, and wanted to take this discussion to the developer list and see if we could get some general consensus, and document it as a best practice in the handbooks. I found a bunch of discussion on this topic: * http://drupal.org/node/118936 * http://www.workhabit.com/labs/svn-repository-structure-drupal-projects * http://ceardach.com/blog/2008/06/development-environment-drupal * http://pingv.com/blog/cyberswat/200706/project-management-drupal * http://www.svntalk.com/node/6 * http://agaricdesign.com/agarics-svn-repository-structure-for-site-maintenan… * https://svn.bryght.com/dev/browser * http://www.advantagelabs.com/advantage_labs_svn_repository_structure * http://www.codegobbler.com/svn-repository-structure-drupal-projects Most of these discussions are around Drupal *shops* who setup SVN to manage the development of their clients' sites, or who host their clients' Drupal sites and manage updates via SVN. However, I'm curious what people generally use in terms of repository structure/deployment strategy *after* development is complete, and they hand the site over to the client so that they can be self-sustaining? It doesn't really seem like they need a vendor branch with various versions of Drupal and contributed modules. The repository is around just their own site. We typically do something like this: /branches: This is where "crazy" development happens that will break other stuff. - /drupal-6-port - /crazy-new-feature /tags: This is where deployments go. Whenever we move a deployment to prod, we tag it first so that we can see a historical record of things that were put 'live' - /2008-09-03-description-of-deployment - /2008-09-08-description-of-deployment /trunk: The latest development code in preparation of deployment. Should be kept stable at all times. Minor fixes can go in here, but major ones (particularly porting tasks) get a dedicated branch. Beneath each directory above is something like this: - /www: Drupal files, modules, etc. - /assets: Things like wireframes, TinyMCE .zip files, and anything else that shouldn't be web acessible. - /db: Database backup files What are other people doing for this use case? -Angie

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Views 1 maintainership?
by Earl Miles 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

Would anyone be interested in taking on the role of maintaining Views 1? The fact that it is a completely different piece of software from Views 2 makes it very difficult for me to spend much time on it, and there are lots of patches and bugfixes that it could stand to have used. Please be aware that such a maintainership would be no small task, but you would have the interesting (and maybe terrifying) responsibility for a piece of software that is used across almost all of Drupal.

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Questions for Drupal Multimedia
by Aaron Winborn 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

As you probably know by now, the book Drupal Multimedia is nearly ready for publication. Before it goes to press however, I want to acknowledge all the work Drupal developers have done towards making Drupal the choice for multimedia on the web. I want to include a final section, "In their words" kind of thing, and am posing some open questions here. I would love to include your words in the book, so please feel free to answer any or all of these questions with a paragraph or three. If you do answer them here, please also indicate a byline for attribution, such as "Alice Boyd (abc on Drupal), Co-maintainer of the Mega Multimedia Module," "Wile. E. Coyote, Developer for Acme, Inc.", or "Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the WWW." I know it's short notice, but I need these by Saturday. I figure this is the best time for these questions, as many contributed modules for media handling in Drupal 6 are just about ready for deployment, and there are many production sites already using Drupal 6. 1) What modules, tools and/or techniques do you use (and/or have you created) for multimedia handling in Drupal 6? 2) What advice do you have for new developers and/or themers? 3) What do you envision for the future of multimedia in Drupal, for Drupal 7, Drupal 8, and/or beyond? Feel free to respond to this thread or to e-mail me personally at winborn(a)advomatic.com. Thanks! Aaron -- Aaron Winborn Advomatic, LLC http://advomatic.com/ Drupal Multimedia available in September! http://www.packtpub.com/create-multimedia-website-with-drupal/book My blog: http://aaronwinborn.com/

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hook elements problem
by Ámon Tamás 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

Hello, I like to make some own form elements: function atleta_elements() { $type['meter'] = array('#input' => TRUE, '#size' => 60); return $type; } but when I like to use it: $form['meter2'] = array( '#title' => 'meter2', '#type' => 'meter', ); I do not see this element. What is the solution? Ámon Tamás Sitefejlesztő és programozó -- 5NET Informatikai Kft. 1062 Budapest, Aradi utca 38. A 3/11 telefon: (1) 461-0205 | fax: (1) 461-0206 e-mail: amont(a)5net.hu | web: http://www.5net.hu

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Full HTML output in profile fields of type textarea
by Jon Antoine 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Hi all, I am trying to crate profile fields that allow full HTML output. I have struggled with this for a long time and finally came up with a solution I am not happy with. After tracking it down, I found on line 560 in the profile.module file that the field value is being passed through check_markup function which is filtering out a lot of the HTML. I ended up replacing the check_markup call with a filter_xss_admin call, but I hate that I had to modify core to accomplish this. Can anyone suggest a better workaround to this problem? I would greatly appreciate it. -- Cheers, Jon Antoine www.antoinesolutions.com

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CCK field modules maintainers - D6 upgrade path
by Yves Chedemois 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

To all CCK field modules maintainers : please read http://drupal.org/node/304813 (also posted on g.d.o/cck) yched

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menu problem
by Ashraf Amayreh 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Hello all, Really frustrated with this problem. When I'm logged out as anonymous, this call menu_get_active_nontask_item() returns -202 This is the first user's (admin's) blog page (blog/1) which I cannot begin to understand why it's being returned when I'm not even logged in. This is the result regardless of the page I'm on, so it's ruining the page titles, the breadcrumbs, the secondary tabs and many other things and I'd welcome any tips on where to begin to figure out why it's happening or how to fix it. -- Ashraf Amayreh http://aamayreh.org

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integrating oscommerce & drupal
by mangesh s 06 Sep '08

06 Sep '08

hi all, i want to sell some products on my website ,for tht i need some e-commerce solution. can u tell me how can i use oscommerce in my website(installation & congiguration).

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Module to create and populate CCK nodes from existing database table
by Pushyamitra Navare 06 Sep '08

06 Sep '08

Hello all, I need a module which will create CCK nodes according to structure of an existing database table. More specifically, the idea is following: I have a few tables containing some data. I would like to represent them as Drupal content so that it becomes easier to add/modify/delete the entries. 1. So I am planning to create a new "content type" for each table looking at its columns. ( For e.g. if a database table called "db_table" contains columns called "column1", "column2", "column3", then I wish to create a new content type called say "db_table_node" with members as textfields called "column1", "column2" and "column3". ) 2. I am planning to import data in that table into drupal as nodes. I was not able to find any module to do this (I'm using D6). Seems like no choice but to write a new module for this. All suggestion welcome! - Pushya

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