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Re: [development] What is the best web server to host drupal, (like Apache, Apache Tomcat, etc) as far as performance, security?
by Anth 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

Just for reference (having come from a JSP/Servlet background), Tomcat is purely Apache's JSP container with just enough webserver to run standalone. Even if you were using Tomcat, if you were going to production you'd run the container in a full blown Apache httpd with httpd passing jsp/servlet requests off to the tomcat container. Anthony.

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ckk markup module doesn't work for node view
by Ernst Plüss 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

Hi Drupal friends I'm using the markup (http://drupal.org/project/markup) module to add additional text to my cck forms. This works very nice for the forms. Now I need this text for the node view as well. I tried to add a formatter (which was completely missing) and changed the hook_is_emtpy to return TRUE. But no luck, the formatters nor the hook_is_emtpy are ever called. The only thing I got working is that I can choose one of my new formatters when configuring cck. It seams, that I'm missing something essential to get the markup module to output the text for node view as well. Any ideas are welcome. Thank you for taking your time! Ernst This is my code: <?php // $Id: markup.module,v 1.2.2.1 2009/07/21 14:14:02 cyu Exp $ /** * @file * Defines a field type for displaying markup on the node/edit form. */ /** * Implementation of hook_field_info(). */ function markup_field_info() { return array( 'markup' => array('label' => 'Markup'), ); } /** * Implementation of hook_field_settings(). */ function markup_field_settings($op, $field) { switch ($op) { case 'form': $form = array(); $form['markup'] = array( '#type' => 'textarea', '#title' => t('Markup'), '#default_value' => isset($field['markup']) ? $field['markup'] : '', '#required' => TRUE, '#rows' => 15, '#description' => t('The markup to be displayed. Any HTML is legal here, so be careful not to break your page layout.'), ); $form['instructions'] = array( '#type' => 'markup', '#value' => htmlentities(t('This is a special field. It will output the markup below, unfiltered by the system, on the node/edit form for this content type. Consider wrapping any visible output in <div class="form-item"></div> to follow form standards.')), '#weight' => -1, ); return $form; case 'validate': break; case 'save': return array('markup'); case 'callbacks': return array( 'view' => CONTENT_CALLBACK_CUSTOM, ); case 'database columns': return array(); } } /** * Implementation of hook_widget_info(). */ function markup_widget_info() { return array( 'markup' => array( 'label' => 'Markup', 'field types' => array('markup'), 'multiple values' => CONTENT_HANDLE_MODULE, ), ); } /** * Implementation of hook_content_multigroup_allowed_widgets(). */ function markup_content_multigroup_allowed_widgets() { return array('markup'); } /** * Implementation of hook_content_multigroup_no_remove_widgets(). */ function markup_content_multigroup_no_remove_widgets() { return array('markup'); } /** * Implementation of hook_widget(). */ function markup_widget(&$form, &$form_state, $field, $items, $delta = 0) { $element = array( '#type' => 'markup', '#title' => '', '#value' => $field['markup'] ); return $element; } /** * Implementation of hook_form_alter(). */ function markup_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) { if ($form_id == 'content_field_edit_form' && $form['module']['#value'] == 'markup') { $form['widget']['label']['#description'] = t('This label is for internal use. If you would like to put a headline on your form markup, you should put HTML for that in the markup area itself.'); // Remove non-applicable fields on the widget settings form. unset($form['widget']['description']); unset($form['field']['required']); unset($form['field']['multiple']); unset($form['field']['#description']); } } /** * Implementation of cck hook_content_is_empty(). */ function markup_content_is_empty($item, $field) { return FALSE; } /** * Implementation of cck hook_field() */ function markup_field($op, &$node, $field, &$node_field, $teaser, $page) { switch ($op) { case 'view': $items = array(); foreach ($node_field as $delta => $item) { $items[$delta]['view'] = content_format($field, $item, 'default', $node); } return theme('field', $node, $field, $items, $teaser, $page); break; } } /** *Implementation of hook_field_formatter_info(). * */ function markup_field_formatter_info() { return array( 'nothing' => array( 'label' => t("Don't show markup"), 'field types' => array('markup'), 'multiple values' => CONTENT_HANDLE_CORE, ), 'all' => array( 'label' => t("Show all markup"), 'field types' => array('markup'), 'multiple values' => CONTENT_HANDLE_CORE, ) ); } /** * Implementation of hook_theme(). */ function markup_theme() { return array( 'markup_formatter_nothing' => array( 'arguments' => array('element' => NULL), ), 'markup_formatter_all' => array( 'arguments' => array('element' => NULL), ), ); } /** * Theme a table. */ function theme_markup_formatter_nothing($element = NULL) { return ""; } /** * Theme a table. */ function theme_markup_formatter_all($element = NULL) { return "ALL ALL ALL"; }

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How do you create content for story by updating the database directly (what tables need to be updated?) instead of using the Drupal web application?
by John Mitchell 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

I have added two fields called latitude and longitude to the story content type. I then created content for story using the drupal web application and populating the Title, Body, latitude and longitude fields. How do you create content for story by updating the database directly (what tables need to be updated?) for the Title, Body, latitude and longitude fields instead of using the Drupal web application? Thanks, John -- John J. Mitchell

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Debugging a multi-site
by Jeff Greenberg 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

When I set up a project in my ide, phpED, it asks for the file path to the file to run first, typically index.php, etc., and not a url. So, when working with a multi-site setup, is there a query string that I can use to let Drupal know which domain is being requested, since any domain in the multi-site is going to begin with index.php?

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Re: [development] [#19375] Performance / Scalability with DXMPP for Xomba
by Aaron Winborn 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

To clarify, the Drupal code sits on their server with Acquia. Their db holds 200k users, but apparently they only have something in the range of 250 online at any one time. Our server will not be running database, so I should probably have clarified the question. The question has more to do with synchronizing their database, which will entail an initial heavy load because of the persistent connection required for that, but should quickly scale back. The issue I'm wondering about is if I'm going about it the best way (synchronizing the systems on the fly rather than all at once). Thanks, Aaron support(a)advomatic.com wrote: > Aaron, > > I am not sure what you are looking for in terms of feedback. If this needs to support that number of users and/or transactions to the database then it will either be slow or need more resources. I was under the impression from early discussions that this project was for around 25 users not 200K users. There is quite a difference in there. Never the less, I am not sure specifically what feedback you would like. It seems to me that you understand the issues involved. Without some sort of test (say adding 20K users and timing it then multiply by 10) I really have no clue what sort of load this will place on the server. I glanced at your code and it looks fine to me. Unfortunately I am by no means a drupal expert and as such I have no idea how this would relate to performance of any given device. > > Let me know if you would like me to pass this ticket along to anyone else. > > Regards > -- 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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Forum vocabluary cloning?
by nan wich 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

In what is actually a stunning move here, I now have to put up forums. That is not difficult at all. There is greater difficulty in the things that will "wrap around" the forums (largely other pages and blocks). Part of this is the common problem of using a vocabulary that is in use for other node types (and is required). It would be so much nicer if I could use the same vocabulary as there is considerable investment already in it. Right now I can see some possibilities: 1) add "forum" to the current vocabulary, delete the current forum vocabulary and let it find the existing one (there is code in the forum module to do this), hope that the "required" attribute doesn't cause problems. 2) Create a module that will clone the vocabulary and with hook_taxonomy, keep it in sync. Before I go too much farther on either one, I'd like to know what others have done to solve this issue. I know it is a common one from searching DO. Nancy E. Wichmann, PMP Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.

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Performance / Scalability with DXMPP for Xomba
by Aaron Winborn 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

I have a performance / scalability issue to discuss: I wrote the DXMPP module with Xomba's 200k+ users in mind. After deployment, each existing and new user will need to have an associated XMPP account created. This involves Drupal querying that server (with a minimum of 3 queries & responses per user), and then another query and response PER buddy to synchronize their user relationship roster. I currently have the server do this on the fly, so the first time a user loads a page that happens invisibly. However, that means that the user relationship roster will NOT reflect their actual buddy list until the associated users are also created. In effect, it means that initially, only active users will have their accounts created, and will slowly fill up over time. To mitigate this, I (plan to) also have cron build up a few users at a time, so that after a week or so all users should be caught up. The alternative, of course, would be to do this with an update. I'm wary of that, because I'm not sure first of all how long that will take (I imagine several hours), and if the server's resources would be completely tied up by doing that. I would love some feedback. The code resides at https://svnbrowser.advomatic.com/xomba/browser/trunk/sites/all/modules/dxmp… Thanks, Aaron -- Aaron Winborn Advomatic, LLC http://advomatic.com/ Drupal Multimedia available now! http://www.packtpub.com/create-multimedia-website-with-drupal/book My blog: http://aaronwinborn.com/

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Core patch authors/reviewers, please update your groups.drupal.org profile
by Greg Knaddison 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

Hello again, As Drupalcon San Francisco approaches it's time once again to look at which individuals (and organizations) are involved in the development of Drupal core. The last time this data was compiled was in December - http://growvs.com/n/760 The commit data has been parsed and, once again, Dries would like to associate from individuals to the company who did the work. The drupal.org profile system has multiple companies associated with each individual making it hard to know which company is the "right" one (if any company at all). So, please go to http://groups.drupal.org and make sure your profile includes the "right" organization. Regards, Greg -- Greg Knaddison | 303-800-5623 | http://growingventuresolutions.com Mastering Drupal | http://www.masteringdrupal.com

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Strange query problem
by nan wich 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

I have the following query, which works fine in PhpMyAdmin, but Drupal upchucks on it. Why? SELECT nc.nid, n.title, n.created, nc.daycount AS views_today, nc.totalcount AS total_views, (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM comments c WHERE c.timestamp >= 1270699200 AND c.nid=nc.nid) AS comments_today, cs.comment_count FROM node_counter nc INNER JOIN node n ON n.nid=nc.nid LEFT JOIN node_comment_statistics cs ON cs.nid=nc.nid WHERE nc.daycount > 0 ORDER BY nc.daycount DESC Yes, in Drupal, I do put the brackets around the table names. The error message says there's a problem at " AS comments_today, cs.comment_count FROM...". Nancy E. Wichmann, PMP Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. - Dr. Suess

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Pagers for non-sql data
by Randy Fay 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Is there a way to use Drupal's extensive pager support with non-sql data? It looks to me like it's pretty much wired to database/sql situations. Thanks, -Randy -- Randy Fay Drupal Development, troubleshooting, and debugging randy(a)randyfay.com +1 970.462.7450

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