October 2006 - support - lists.drupal.org

Script to change collation on all mysql tables?
by Anisa 07 Dec '06

07 Dec '06

A lot of people, upgrading from 4.6 to 4.7, or having phpmyadmin issues, are interested in a script or some sort of file that will change the collation to utf8_general_ci on all tables. Anyone have any ideas? I want to add it to the handbook. I think it would be pretty easy to make a sql thingy for default tables, how do you deal with prefixes? Anisa. OOO! How about a list of tablenames in the handbook... -- ********************************* www.AnimeCards.Org 16,000 scans and counting! *********************************

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technical support chat
by Mohammed Al-shar' 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

hello everyone. your recommendations are always appreciated. this time I want to provide a technical support chat inside of my drupal powered-website, so that users chat with one of the technical support ingineers in my company. I don't want the users to be able to chat with each other, but only with the technical support persons. what is the best way to do it? module(s), combos, etc. Regards, Mohammed al-shar'

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xmlrpc() crashes without warning for large base64 data types...
by Leo Burd 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Hello there, For some reason, calls to xmlrpc.php are crashing/timing out for base64 data elements larger than 100k. Here's some more information: * I'm running my site in a Red Hat EL 4 server with PHP 4.3.9 (which is the default for this OS) * I tried to replicate the error calling the functions directly from the command line and the error did not show up * It seems that the call to base64_encode() is consuming a lot of resources. I changed memory limits in php.ini to 128M and the function calls still hang. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions/clues about what could be done? Thanks in advance, Leo

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translation block
by Mohammed Al-shar' 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

hello. is there a way to modify the out put of the translation block that is generated by the translation module, part of the i18n set of modules. I am trying to play with the following statement: <?php print theme("item_list", translation_get_links($_GET['q'])); ?> what this produces are links for the 2 languages and their associated flags in 2 lines since it's a list. I assume that changing "item_list" will change the way those links are rendered? but how, what other functions can I use? it would be great if in the end I could display only the flags in one line, next to each other. or better yet, if I could display only the flag for the none-active language. any ideas? Mohammed al-shar'

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Junk {head} {style} etc., but can't login to change default theme
by Tom Chiverton 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

I've upgraded my PHP version on a v4.6 Drupal install (as part of going up a few Fedora versions), and have run into what seems to be a known problem with junk curly braces appearing on the page (http://drupal.org/node/42080) The fix listed is to login and change the default theme, but I can't do that because the ?q=admin/themes page just says 'you are not authorised to login' and there is no login form :-( Any bright ideas ?-- Tom C 'We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.' - Wernher von Braun

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Forcing a category on a CCK form
by Adam Gaffin 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Apologies in advance if there's a simple answer to this, but: We publish static articles outside of Drupal but would like to give each article a Drupal dicussion area. I've used CCK and the content_taxonomy module to create a new node type that allows for both an article-ID field and a taxonomy dropdown. Is there a way, however, to force a particular taxonomy ID so that, for example, an article on "security" would automatically create a node under our Drupal "security" taxonomy (similar to the way you could do, say ?q=node/add/forum/17 for a forum topic)? Thanks! Adam Gaffin Executive Editor, NetworkWorld.com agaffin(a)nww.com / (508) 490-6433 / http://www.networkworld.com "I programmed my robotic dog to bite the guy who delivers the electronic mail." -- Kibo

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HowTo: table within a fieldset
by Stefan Borchert 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Hi. After posting by accident to the themes-list, I try it here: For a module settings page I would like to build up a table of available extensions (don't care about, just think of a simple table) but this table should be within a fieldset (collapsible). [code] $form['ext'] = array('#type' => 'fieldset', '#collapsible' => true, '#collapsed' => true, '#tree' => true, '#title' => t('Extensions')); // build extension table foreach ($extensions as $key => $extension) { $form['ext'][$key]['status'] = array('#type' => 'checkbox', '#default_value' => $extension['status']); $form['ext'][$key]['weight'] = array('#type' => 'weight', '#default_value' => $extension['weight']); $form['ext'][$key]['title'] = array('#value' => $extension['title']); } [/code] Other form elements above and below of this fieldset (for example the submit button) are displayed correctly but I can't put the table into the fieldset. How do I handle this? I can build the table and can build the fieldset but the table doesn't want to appear within the fieldset. Any ideas (or a handbook page) or is this simply impossible? Stefan

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multisite technical question
by VJ Rao 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Hi, I have a multisite install where Im sharing content (nodes) , taxonomy and users. (I am only not sharing the following tables : menu, cache, variable, accesslog, watchdog) I present content to different websites based on tags (for example subdomain1.example.com will only present blogs tagged under vocabulary subdomain1 , similar functionality for subdomain2.example.com etc..cross tagged content will appear on both sites) The problem Im facing is with search...I want anonymous users on subdomain1.example.com to only see content tagged under subdomain1 while searching. Is there anyway to achieve this? I have installed TAC but setting permissions for anonymous users on a per site basis is not possible... Is there anything else I can be trying? There is a way to change 'anonymous' user per site on administer->settings...but that only seems to change the name Thanks, VJ

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Re: [support] welcome to your drupal powered
by Kobus Myburgh 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Mohammed, The two columns look better! What inkfree says is probably right - maybe set the blocks that they do NOT show on the front page. That will provide you with some space. Regards, Kobus >>> mohammed(a)atexplorer.com 10/25/2006 10:31:22 PM >>> thank you. the problem with the front module is that it won't work well with the i18 module, I am not sure though. I now changed it to a 2 collumn layout, will it work? or is it too narrow? and, if so, is there a space in the page that wouldn't be so narrow for it? I could think of giving up some items like the mission, for instance. any suggestions, views, will be highly appreciated. the url again is: www.nattiq.info Regards, Mohammed al-shar' ----- Original Message ----- From: "inkfree press" <inkfree(a)gmail.com> To: "Drupal-support" <support(a)drupal.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:16 PM Subject: Re: [support] welcome to your drupal powered > "Mohammed Al-shar'" wrote: > >> can somebody have a look and confirm it visually? if it looks ok? > > Well, Mohammed, I don't think is going to work for you. The three-column > space under the intro (mission?) produces columns which are too narrow to > hold your headlines. The headlines bleed out from the borders you've > provided on those columns. > > Perhaps you want a whole different front page, without any of the side > menus > yet? There are modules/ways to implement this. The 'frontpage' module is > a > good choice, I think, for a basic "different" front page. > > Anyway, you asked for some feedback on the visuals, and so: it's broken. > :) > -- > inkfree > > -- > [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] > > > -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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Re: [support] welcome to your drupal powered
by Kobus Myburgh 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Hi Mohammed, The page content you have there seems quite allright. I have said before that your header section is a bit too big, but otherwise the site looks quite okay now. Regards, Kobus >>> mohammed(a)atexplorer.com 10/25/2006 9:57:48 PM >>> hello earl! thank you. I just solved it by changing the view from a block to a page and set the front page to highlights. it worked beautifully. can somebody have a look and confirm it visually? if it looks ok? thanks in advance. the url is: www.nattiq.info Regards, Mohammed al-shar' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Earl Miles" <merlin(a)logrus.com> To: <support(a)drupal.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [support] welcome to your drupal powered > Mohammed Al-shar' wrote: >> hello >> >> is there a way not to publish any node at the front page? > > What you want to do is to create a page to take the place of the front > page, and then set the default frontpage to the URL of that. So you have > to answer the question of "If I don't want content promoted to the front > page, what content do I want there?" > > The simplest way is to create a page node, and set the default frontpage > to "node/NID" where NID is the node id of the page you created. > > -- > [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] > > > -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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