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Moving working Drupal environment to another web-hosting server
by Kamal Palei 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Hi All Let me first thank you all for providing such a great platform Drupal. I am quite new to Drupal environment. With the given documenttaion I was able to get Drupal up and running. I have few questions as below. 1. Now I am gooing to develop complete site in my local machine. Basically I am going to make a site, where site visitors can upload their resumes. In the process of development, I might use panels, blocks, views etc. I may add contents to different pages and customize it as per my need. Once all development is done, I plan to move my site to a proper web hosting machine. Is it possible to move a working Drupal based environment to new web hosting platform? My worry is, in the process of developemnt, Drupal might have used local machine database to store any informations, once we move the environment to new web hosting m/c, will it not loose those informations? Can somebody guide me, is it possible to move localy developed Drupal environment to a new web hosting machine. If possible, please explain and provide link to related documentation. Regards Kamal

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multisite complication
by jeff＠ayendesigns.com 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

I have a typical multisite setup with a dozen or so domain names or sub.domain names resolving to the same directory in which is the sites directory containing each of the domain and sub.domain names, some as symlinks when they are synonyms for another domain name. I need to add sub.domain/category_a sub.domain/category_b, etc. (mainly because category.sub.domain isn't supported, at least not by my hoster), but I can't figure out how to do this. Do I make category_a a symlink pointing to the drupal root? And if so, what do I put in the sites directory that would differentiate the two? Jeff -- Ayen Designs 388 Bullsboro Drive #105 · Newnan, Georgia 30263 404-271-9734 Web:ayendesigns.com <http://ayendesigns.com> Blog: theAccidentalCoder.com <http://theaccidentalcoder.com> Drupal: j. ayen green <http://drupal.org/user/367108> IRQ: j_ayen_green IM (Yahoo) baalwww (MSN) baalwww(a)yahoo.com Skype: ayendesigns Ayen Designs is a tradename of the computer services division of

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How to manage major release upgrades of contrib modules?
by Justin Ellison 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Hi listers, I'm coming up on alpha/beta testing version 3.0 of http://drupal.org/project/node_gallery, and it's a complete overhaul of the 2.x branch. While image/gallery data will not be lost, there's a good chance that some user customizations with views, themes, etc will stop working as intended. I"m scared that the moment I mark 3.0 as the recommended release, I'll have a stampede of angry users lighting up the issue queue with "Upgrade to 3.x broke my site!!!". I'm shipping default views so that the users have a good starting point, 3.0 will ship with an UPGRADE.txt file, and we'll have handbook pages in place to explain things; but is there a best practice for letting users know in advance that they need to test this upgrade? Maybe I could release a recommended release of the 2x branch that implements hook_update_N() and spits out the contents of the 3.x UPGRADE.txt file? That wouldn't catch everyone, but hopefully lessen the impact. I'd love input and/or examples on how best to deal with this. Justin

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Create a node revision programatically
by Eric Schaefer 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Hi List, I want to create a new revision of a node from a module. I could not find a function for that in the api docs (D6). I figured out (by poking at node.module) I could just set $node->revision to TRUE and set $node->log to something meaningful and it works. But since I did not find any documentation about this I thought I should ask here before breaking anything. Is my approach correct or will it do something "surprising"? Regards, Eric

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Dipen Chaudhary wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn
by Dipen Chaudhary 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

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Is there a module that ......
by Greenman 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

Hi Folks I use this pattern often, but have not found a module that does it, so I could just not know the correct name for things. * Create a unique key, normally an MD5 hash * assign a set of data to the key and store this in the DB * Create a url with this key in it * When someone visits this url, load my stored data and do a bunch of things I use this for obfuscated action urls, transactions and various other things, and keep doubting that I am the only one doing this. The url bit of this is just a use case, the main functionality I find myself building is the tool to create and retrieve datasets. Any existing module for this ? Peter

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Reputable SEO Software
by Josh 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Hello Drupal Developers! I have a client asking about his SEO impact. As a part of our content development strategy, we develop a sitemap and attach 3 to 5 high impact phrases to each page and craft our content around those phrases. That is as about as far I have gone to make our websites SEO friendly. After my client has asked about the impact of this strategy, it led me to wonder if there is a software or website service that respectable web developers use for generating SEO reports on Drupal websites. I'm not asking for trade secrets, just asking more about "which tools do you recommend" to use with our Drupal sites to measure the success of our SEO strategy? We already have Google Webmaster Tools setup and Google Analytics. What I'm after is a software or web service that can help us see what traffic we are potentially missing. Thanks for your thoughts, Josh

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Adding a phone number field to the site wide contact form
by E.J. Zufelt 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Good morning, I am looking for the best way to add a phone number field to the standard site wide contact form in Drupal 6. I have looked at Webform which will work, yet I really don't need the submissions stored. I have also read the description of the Contact forms module, which appears that it may work, but also seems like a lot of overhead for the little feature I need. I'm curious if anyone can suggest a simple light weight method of adding a single additional field to the site wide contact form? Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt

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line breaks when redirecting drupal email through messaging_phpmailer
by Blake Senftner 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Hi all, I'm using the messaging & notifications modules, and have redirected the Drupal system emails with drupal_mail_wrapper() to travel through the messaging_phpmailer framework. This enables the client's "lost password" emails to travel via gmail, for example, which is the the same account their notifications are sent. Anyway, I have this working except for line breaks. The final "lost password" email arrives as a single line, with no breaks. I've added a debugging routine that appends a string to a file, and with that writing out the email body as it travels into the messaging_phpmailer logic I can see line breaks starting as "\r", get converted to "\n" before being sent, and lost somewhere during the send process. However, emails sent through the same logic by the messaging module have line breaks and complete rich text just fine. It looks like the only place the change could occur is inside hook_mail_alter(), but a grep of my contributed modules is not showing any implementations of "_mail_alter"... Anyone have any experience / advice? The necessary logic to do this is quite simple, once the messaging framework has been setup: // the only thing inside cex_mail.module: function cex_mail_enable() { variable_set('smtp_library', drupal_get_path('module','cex_mail') . '/smtp.inc.php'); } // contents of smtp.inc.php: function drupal_mail_wrapper($message) { // simply appends string to a file: _cexReport( 'drupal_mail_wrapper: got "'.print_r( $message, 1 ).'"' ); // tried all kinds of variations here, nothing seems to make a difference: $message['body'] = str_replace( "\r", '', $message['body'] ); return messaging_phpmailer_send_msg( $message['to'], (object)$message, $message['params'] ); } With the exception of the line break issue, this works fine. Sincerely, -Blake bsenftner(a)earthlink.net www.BlakeSenftner.com www.MissingUbercartManual.com

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Shopping for medium- to long-term project
by jeff＠ayendesigns.com 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Thanks to all of you who tossed me various things when my gig fell through! I'm back to put out a feeler for any medium- to long-term (4 weeks+) opportunities for developer/site builder. All work is good, of course, but with the pre-launch cycle being pretty much the same for all work: discussions, requirements gathering, paperwork, it's much more efficient to follow 1-2 weeks (elapsed) of that with a 1-2+ month project! Jeff -- Ayen Designs 388 Bullsboro Drive #105 · Newnan, Georgia 30263 404-271-9734 Web:ayendesigns.com <http://ayendesigns.com> Blog: theAccidentalCoder.com <http://theaccidentalcoder.com> Drupal: j. ayen green <http://drupal.org/user/367108> IRQ: j_ayen_green IM (Yahoo) baalwww (MSN) baalwww(a)yahoo.com Skype: ayendesigns Ayen Designs is a tradename of the computer services division of

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