May 2005 - support - lists.drupal.org

[drupal-support] IE css quirk with bluemarine derivative?
by Cheryl Chase 24 May '05

24 May '05

I'm working on a client site, using a custom phptemplate theme based on bluemarine. Bluemarine itself ALSO exhibits this quirk with my content. The site renders correctly in Firefox and Safari, and IE/Mac. With IE/Windows (6.0), the first line other than header element is (frequently) indented. http://schultzcollins.mathiastechnology.com/ FIrst UL item is indented http://schultzcollins.mathiastechnology.com/services/private First P element is indented. I've scratched my head over this to no avail. The xhtml validates (except for "there is no attribute "language" in event.module's javascript), and the css validates. There is no space or tab in the xhtml, when viewed with "View Source". The css is just slightly modified from bluemarine, and the html is all generated via textile. Does anyone understand what's causing one line of my text to be indented, only on the IE/Windows browser? Cheryl

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Re: [drupal-support] Webform.module: How to edit dimensions of textarea?
by Cheryl Chase 23 May '05

23 May '05

On May 21, 2005, Pontus Ullgren <ullgren(a)users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Message: 6 > Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 16:01:41 +0200 > From: Pontus Ullgren <ullgren(a)users.sourceforge.net> > > >> Also, this is a bug in webform upgrade. Previously (4.5.2), the width >> and height of a textarea were set by having the value of database >> field "extra" be, for instance, "80x40". Now it contains a structured >> string, as follows: >> >> a:3:{s:11:"description";s:23:"Enter your message here";s:4:"cols";s: >> 2:"80";s:4:"rows";s:2:"40";} >> >> > Not a bug, a feature. Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. The new implementation has certainly been improved to represent parameters as a structured string. But during upgrade, my dimensions themselves were not upgraded, so that my textareas had no dimensions, nor were the dimensions editable. I rescued my existing forms by entering the required structured string directly, to the mysql shell. Cheryl

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Re: [drupal-support] help
by Kobus Myburgh 23 May '05

23 May '05

Chris, > Thank you Kobus for actually logging in and taking a look at the site. What > a group! This is what I call a global community. You're welcome, Chris! You can call on me any time. > The only area which is difficult to understand is layout and visual design > concepts. But, I guess that is to be expected to some extent considering I > can't see the screen. lol I will help you with customizing your layout as well, should you need help. You've got my mail address. > The President of our organization is also blind. > He asked me to help him develop this community portal. He wanted it to do > many things but the problem was we are starting with very limited funding. Since I am already busy with such a project, I will help you guys free of charge, providing that whatever things I implement for you, I am free to use on my own project, as well as give back to Drupal. Let me know if you're interested. > What I am struggling with, working by myself and with no staff around, is > what it looks like. If you need help with the layout, let me know. I can help you a bit with it. > More detailed descriptions of themes and templates > would help tremendously. I am member of http://themes.drupal.org where we are in the process of handling this issue. Feel free to take a look around that page for more information about themes and templates. > Also, if anybody could give me suggestions once I have the text and > navigation situated, it would be greatly appreciated. I will help maintain your site for you, with regards to grammar and spelling, as well as styling of your text into paragraphs and so forth. Let me know when I can help. > And there is the graphic design and presentation. > This area is very challenging for somebody who is blind with existing tools. Again, I'll help here if you wish. > What may make it better is to offer detailed descriptions of what the themes > and templates look like. Thanks for the suggestion - I will talk to Ber (Coordinator of http://themes.drupal.org) with regards to this, and solicit his ideas. > You can provide practical ideas of how pages can be laid out with the blocks > and menus. Maybe we can work on this together, since I believe that people with normal sight usually don't think the same way blind people do with regards to layout. Again, I am available for this. Regards, Kobus

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[drupal-support] help
by Christopher Taylor 23 May '05

23 May '05

Hello, Hope everybody is doing well. 1. I had a question about a funny message that is shoing up on the front page. No matter what we do, it won't go away. It just says "?q=node N/A" 2. I did a rather round about install procedure because I am not familiar with sql and since I am blind, my screen reader doesn't work all that great in certain places. My host provider has a script of 4.5.1 which they offer on the platform. They didn't have 4.6 so I downloaded it and unpacked it in a new directory. I did all the appropriate updates to the config.php file. I did an install of 4.5.1. Then, I ran update.php from 10-31-2004, the default. It gave the severity error and so I ran the update again using the date of 01-07-2005. It seemed to solve the problem with the exception of one message about an "invalid argument call" Then I logged in and it gave me an error because I tried to create the first account. Apparently, it already had admin in there as the first record. Anyhow, it all cleared away and things were working fine until this strange node message. This occurred when I tried submitting a test story. I change the name in the system from my name to another ain the "Author name" and it gave some error about the user not exsisting when I hit "submit". Somehow, it took the submit but the story disappeared. That is when the node error came up. It showed the story in the log but there was no trace of the content. 3. I tried to run a cron.php thinking it would fix something but it gave an error about a header a missing on line 66. I guess the questions are 1. Do I have a possible unstable install? How can I tell? 2. What is this strange ?q=node n/a that popped up after the problem with the story submit? How do I make it go away? 3. Why am I getting an error on line 66 when I run cron.php? I am about to invest a lot of time in design and I still don't know exactly how to back up the database. I have a lot of work to put in all the design and menus, etc. I searched the archives but I couldn't find anything on the "node" problem. Thank you for taking the time to read this email. Make it a great day.

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[drupal-support] can't complete installation of event module in 4.6
by Petre Scheie 22 May '05

22 May '05

I'm having trouble installing the event module, and hope someone can help me. I've got drupal 4.6 and version 4.6 of the event module. Step #4 in the INSTALL file says "4. You must then enable one or more node types to be used with the event system. You can do this by going to admin/node/configure/types and selecting a node type from the list. If the event calendar is installed properly you should see a section called 'Show in event calendar:' with three options below it: " But there is no 'node' under the Administration menu. How do I connect the event module to the correct node type? BTW, I do have the flexinode module installed, and event and flexinode both appear under the 'settings' menu. Can anyone help? TIA Petre

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[drupal-support] Drupal Time Zones / DST
by Mark Shropshire 22 May '05

22 May '05

I was wondering what the best way to handle Daylight Savings Time in Drupal. I am moving to 4.6 so you can assume that is what we are talking about :) Here is what I am currently doing: 1. I have user configurable time zones turned off. 2. I set the size wide time zone to GMT-500 when not in Daylight Savings Time. 3. When DST started in April, to make the site times look correct, I had to change the time zone of my sites to GMT-400. A few questions on the above: 1. Is this the best way to handle or is there a better way? I am actually telling Drupal that I am in a different time zone (-400) which is not true so it seem like a hack to get it to show the correct time.. 2. Will this cause me any problems? It seems that it will affect the times of old posts.. 3. Why does Drupal not have a checkbox to tell the system that the site follows DST like most operating systems do? There is a lot of talk about timezone related issues on drupal.org..so much so that I wasn't sure what applied to my questions and what didn't ..also what issues are not old issues not related to 4.6. Post date/times are more of annoyance..probably not a huge deal even if I left the time zone and the time was wrong part of the year, but this will cause me problems with the events module which I really really like! Thanks! Mark

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[drupal-support] Help to create a "special" user
by Abalieno 22 May '05

22 May '05

I need to create a special role/user on my site. Basically I want the users to log in with an username and password I provide without registering new accounts. It should work as a just multi-user role with specific permissions. The problem is that anyone can log-in and modify the password. So, how can I lock the access to the user page even for the same user? I'm looking for a small mod in order to add this option in the access control page. So I can lock the account properly. -HRose / Abalieno

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[drupal-support] Webform.module: How to edit dimensions of textarea?
by Cheryl Chase 21 May '05

21 May '05

After upgrading from 4.5.2 to 4.6, the textareas of my webforms had shrunk to one line. I see how to set width and height when adding a new textarea component to a webform, but no way to edit the width and height of an existing textarea. Is this possible? Also, this is a bug in webform upgrade. Previously (4.5.2), the width and height of a textarea were set by having the value of database field "extra" be, for instance, "80x40". Now it contains a structured string, as follows: a:3:{s:11:"description";s:23:"Enter your message here";s:4:"cols";s: 2:"80";s:4:"rows";s:2:"40";} Thanks, Cheryl

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[drupal-support] repair watchdog props
by Boerland Bert 20 May '05

20 May '05

Hi My hosts died on me in an ugly way, and I am stuck with a not working watchdog table (all other tables I was able to repair) This results in not being able to go to /admin (/admin/block etc work) since the logs are presented on the first admin page (if this is needed in the first place is another question) I tried to repair the table but it fails mysql> repair table watchdog; +----------------+--------+----------+-----------------------------+ | Table | Op | Msg_type | Msg_text | +----------------+--------+----------+-----------------------------+ | willy.watchdog | repair | error | 28 when writing to datafile | | willy.watchdog | repair | error | 28 when writing to datafile | | willy.watchdog | repair | status | Operation failed | +----------------+--------+----------+-----------------------------+ Since watchdog is only used for the admin, I think I can just delete the table and recreate it? Is this the case and if so, could someone give some instructions for a 4.5 instalation? note, also on http://drupal.org/node/23268

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[drupal-support] permissionn need for <top-level> in book pages
by Maykel Moya 18 May '05

18 May '05

I'm creating a book page, if I logged in as admin (UID 0) then, in Parent I have the option '<top-level>', but if i'm logged in as another user, i don't have this option while having the rest of book pages. What permission should I set for this ? Thank you in advance. maykel

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