October 2006 - support - lists.drupal.org

Re: [support] block with latest 3 sticky posts
by Kobus Myburgh 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

Mohammed, If you struggle with the views module, I will help set it up for you when I get a moment. Alternatively I can write a quick SQL query in a block that will do this for you. I am not sure if the entire Views module is needed for such a small block. Regards, Kobus PS: Laura, I doubt Mohammed would mind me saying this - he is blind, so Views may be a bit daunting for him. I have to take my hat off for Mohammed for trying so hard to make things work under his circumstances, and managing most of the stuff without contacting the help list. He has been using Drupal since 4.6.1 or something like that, and I have helped him a few times off-list to get some stuff done. Perhaps we should get a team together to focus specifically on usability for visually impaired users in the next version (> 5.0) of Drupal? Comments? >>> laura(a)pingv.com 10/20/2006 3:46:06 AM >>> On Oct 19, 2006, at 6:19 PM, Mohammed Al-shar' wrote: > lora, > > thank you. > > but don't you think that the views module isn't easy at all? I > tried it but couldn't do anything with it. I saw it as being very > difficult. is there some book that explains it more? I know it's > powerful. Try taking an existing view, and clicking "clone." That way the obvious stuff is already filled in. Things to remember: 1) You need a page if you want people to see all your sticky posts. 2) You need a block, obviously. 3) You will want to have filters. Musts would be node is sticky, node is published. You can add taxonomy, author, other conditions as you like. Try it out, and see what happens. 4) You probably don't need to deal with arguments. Hope this helps. Best, Laura

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Re: [support] block with latest 3 sticky posts
by Kobus Myburgh 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

>> PS: Laura, I doubt Mohammed would mind me saying this - he is blind, so Views >> may be a bit daunting for him. > > Not to mention the ironic naming of the module, in this case. Indeed! Nothing like a bit of dry humour on a Monday morning :-) > Firstly, any kind of AWG (for brevity) would need the support of those who > are in a position to actually do something about "enforcement" in > contributed and core code. I agree. An absolute must. No use in writing code that will not get into Core. > The _core Drupal theme_ should be 100% valid markup and should pass a 508 > accessibility test. I believe there will be more than 1 Core theme, but yes, that is correct. > In short: Yes, Kobus. We need an accessibility group. Even to "endorse" a > theme as drawing "accessible" markup or not is a worthy goal. Talking about accessible theme. I wonder how much of accessibility can be addressed in the theme. I suspect a lot of code in Core will have to change, or am I mistaken? > As Drupal starts to include more rich application components (AJAX, for > example) these issues become even more important than ever before. Now is > the time for Drupal to get serious about being fully accessible, before core > technologies get embedded in such a way that improving accessibility becomes > increasingly complicated and time-consuming. A very valid point. I am wondering if this shouldn't have started before. With all the new technologies, it becomes easier for non-developers to add inaccessible code/markup. Take TinyMCE for example. Although it has a decent enough warning when you don't add an "ALT" attribute to an image you inserted, or a "TITLE" attribute to a link, most non-coders/or "bad coders" will simply ignore that and continue adding code. Looking forward to seeing some (and getting involved in some) action! Kobus

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Re: [support] block with latest 3 sticky posts
by Kobus Myburgh 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

I noticed the group, it's a good step in the right direction. Now we just need to get involved. Regards, Kobus >>> Greg(a)GrowingVentureSolutions.com 10/20/2006 4:37:10 PM >>> On 10/20/06, Kobus Myburgh <ITBJDM(a)puknet.puk.ac.za> wrote: > him a few times off-list to get some stuff done. Perhaps we should get a > team together to focus specifically on usability for visually impaired > users in the next version (> 5.0) of Drupal? Comments? It already exists: http://groups.drupal.org/accessibility And yes, it's a great idea. Regards, Greg -- Greg Knaddison | Growing Venture Solutions Denver, CO | http://growingventuresolutions.com Technology Solutions for Communities, Individuals, and Small Businesses -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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Search results not showing up.
by Bèr Kessels 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

Hello, On nearly all my 4.7 sites, I am having problems with search. The issues are random, but occur on all my sites. After a certain amount of time, results stop being indexed. My search index tells me that all is indexed, though I know, it is not :) When I search for obvious words in newer posts, I get either no results, or too few. Rebuilding the index works. Untill after a random time, then it stops indexing. Indexing stops on one site a time. This has been going on for months. Cron runs just fine, so it seems, and I /am/ running multisite sites, with cron runs on all the sites every 16 minutes, so it could be a memory/CPU issue, though I doubt it, since my watchdog tells me cron ran just fine, and my server is far from choked. Has anyone experienced this too? Has anyone seen any docs on Drupal.org about this specific issue? Does anyone know where to start debugging this weirdness? Bèr

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How to have 'featured events'?
by Jody Cleveland 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

Hello, I've got a website I'm developing for a library. On the front page will be displayed new events, updated and added pages, etc. What I'd like to do is have a small area on the page that shows a few featured events. Kind of like this site: http://www.aadl.org My question is, where do I start? How do I classify an event as being 'featured', and how do I get a block to only display those items? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. - jody

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Re: [support] block with latest 3 sticky posts
by Mohammed Al-shar' 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

lora, thank you. but don't you think that the views module isn't easy at all? I tried it but couldn't do anything with it. I saw it as being very difficult. is there some book that explains it more? I know it's powerful. Regards, Mohammed al-shar' ----- Original Message ----- From: Laura Scott To: support(a)drupal.org Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:44 AM Subject: Re: [support] block with latest 3 sticky posts Mohammed, take a look at the views module. You can create a wide variety of blocks this way, including this one you describe. Hope this helps. Best, Laura On Oct 19, 2006, at 4:19 PM, Mohammed Al-shar' wrote: hello. I have searched for this on drupal but couldn't find anything. could somebody tell me how to achieve this? creat a block that displays the latest 3 sticky posts: title and teaser. this will serve like a highlite block in the home page. Regards, Mohammed al-shar' -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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block with latest 3 sticky posts
by Mohammed Al-shar' 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

hello. I have searched for this on drupal but couldn't find anything. could somebody tell me how to achieve this? creat a block that displays the latest 3 sticky posts: title and teaser. this will serve like a highlite block in the home page. Regards, Mohammed al-shar'

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Internet Explorer crashes on Drupal
by KOKOU AFIDEGNON 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Hello, Internet Explorer crashes when you go to my drupal site humandesign.com. check out the forum. click around quickly and it will crash eventually. I have try to check which of the modules or part of the coding but not finding a good answer. If you can please assist me please. Thanks --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min.

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**********SPAM**********: accessibility of drupal sites
by Mohammed Al-shar' 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

dear listers, first, I am sorry to have posted this messages to both the themes and the support lists, but I just am not sure where this would fit more. I am concerned with the accessibility of drupal powered websites for the blind and visually impaired. I have searched the drupal website and read what I could find about this topic but it seems to me that this has received little attention so far. none of the posts I read was elaborate enough. here are some points to contemplate about: 1. for visually impaired users, I want them to be able to change the font size / color / contrast on the fly. one site that does this beautifully, but it's not drupal powered is our strategic partner's website at: www.yourdolphin.com 2. provide keyboard users the possibility of reaching some parts of the website using accesskeys. I know that this method isn't preferred from what I read about it, but may be the listers can share their views about this point. I am blind myself, and never need to use accesskeys as my screen reader has built in commands to reach to various elements on most websites. actually, most modern screen readers have this possibility. I am thinking that structuring the website's documents well will often be most handy. like using different heading sizes, and using bulleted and numbered lists. the project I am involved in currently is for the company I work for, which specializes in assistive technology for the blind and visually impaired. it's at: www.nattiq.info it still requires lots of work, specially that it's going to be multilingual and has a right to left language. still, I would highly appreciate it if some of you could give it a look and steer me in the right direction. any comments will be warmly welcomed. Regards, and thanks in anticipation. Mohammed al-shar'

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access denied when upgrading from 4.6.3 to 4.7.3
by John Angelmo 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

Hello I have upgraded from 4.6.3 to 4.7.3 with no errors. But now when I am logged in everything works fine, but as anonymous I get 403 errors. I have run chmod -R 777 on the drupal directory just to be certain, and I can't find any other message then access denied in the drupal log. mysql logging for the anonymous user: 061015 23:33:27 2 Connect drupal@localhost on 2 Init DB drupal 2 Query SET NAMES "utf8" 2 Query SELECT sid FROM sessions WHERE sid = '5e8d3101220dd9e9629cae2d124a32c7' 2 Query SELECT u.*, s.* FROM users u INNER JOIN sessions s ON u.uid = s.uid WHERE s.sid = '5e 8d3101220dd9e9629cae2d124a32c7' 2 Query SELECT * FROM access WHERE status = 1 AND type = 'host' AND LOWER('85.24.222.68') LIK E LOWER(mask) 2 Query SELECT * FROM access WHERE status = 0 AND type = 'host' AND LOWER('85.24.222.68') LIK E LOWER(mask) 2 Query SELECT data, created, headers, expire FROM cache WHERE cid = 'variables' 2 Query SELECT COUNT(pid) FROM url_alias 2 Query SELECT src FROM url_alias WHERE dst = 'node/1' 2 Query SELECT name, filename, throttle, bootstrap FROM system WHERE type = 'module' AND stat us = 1 ORDER BY weight ASC, filename ASC 2 Query SELECT data, created, headers, expire FROM cache WHERE cid = 'menu:0:en' 2 Query SELECT n.nid, n.vid, n.type, n.status, n.created, n.changed, n.comment, n.promote, n. moderate, n.sticky, r.timestamp AS revision_timestamp, r.title, r.body, r.teaser, r.log, r.format, u.uid, u.name, u.pictu re, u.data FROM node n INNER JOIN users u ON u.uid = n.uid INNER JOIN node_revisions r ON r.vid = n.vid WHERE n.nid = 1 2 Query SELECT last_comment_timestamp, last_comment_name, comment_count FROM node_comment_sta tistics WHERE nid = 1 2 Query SELECT DISTINCT(p.perm) FROM role r INNER JOIN permission p ON p.rid = r.rid WHERE r. rid IN (1) 2 Query SELECT t.* FROM term_node r INNER JOIN term_data t ON r.tid = t.tid INNER JOIN vocabu lary v ON t.vid = v.vid WHERE r.nid = 1 ORDER BY v.weight, t.weight, t.name 2 Query SELECT * FROM files f INNER JOIN file_revisions r ON f.fid = r.fid WHERE r.vid = 1 OR DER BY f.fid 2 Query SELECT COUNT(*) FROM node_access WHERE (nid = 0 OR nid = 1) AND ((gid = 0 AND realm = 'all')) AND grant_view >= 1 2 Query SELECT COUNT(*) FROM node_access WHERE (nid = 0 OR nid = 1) AND ((gid = 0 AND realm = 'all')) AND grant_update >= 1 2 Query SELECT COUNT(*) FROM node_access WHERE (nid = 0 OR nid = 1) AND ((gid = 0 AND realm = 'all')) AND grant_delete >= 1 2 Query SELECT * FROM system WHERE type = 'theme' 2 Query SELECT dst FROM url_alias WHERE src = 'node/1' 2 Query INSERT INTO watchdog (uid, type, message, severity, link, location, referer, hostname , timestamp) VALUES (0, 'access denied', '<em>node/1</em> denied access.', 1, '<a href=\"/d/stupid/node/1\" class=\"activ e\">view</a>', 'http://asuka.veidit.net/d/stupid/node/1', '', '85.24.222.68', 1160948007) 2 Query SELECT * FROM blocks WHERE theme = 'paf' AND status = 1 ORDER BY region, weight, module 2 Query SELECT dst FROM url_alias WHERE src = 'node/4' 2 Query SELECT dst FROM url_alias WHERE src = 'taxonomy/term/10' 2 Query SELECT dst FROM url_alias WHERE src = 'gallery/main.php' 2 Query SELECT dst FROM url_alias WHERE src = 'blog/1' 2 Query SELECT dst FROM url_alias WHERE src = 'taxonomy/term/9' 2 Query SELECT dst FROM url_alias WHERE src = 'tracker' 2 Query SELECT dst FROM url_alias WHERE src = 'admin/logs/referrers' 2 Query SELECT dst FROM url_alias WHERE src = 'admin/logs/pages' 2 Query SELECT dst FROM url_alias WHERE src = 'admin/logs/visitors' 2 Query SELECT dst FROM url_alias WHERE src = 'admin/logs/hits' 2 Query SELECT dst FROM url_alias WHERE src = 'user/register' 2 Query SELECT dst FROM url_alias WHERE src = 'user/password' 2 Query SELECT dst FROM url_alias WHERE src = 'node' 2 Query SELECT * FROM system WHERE type = 'theme' AND name = 'paf' 2 Query INSERT INTO accesslog (title, path, url, hostname, uid, sid, timer, timestamp) values ('Access denied', '', '', '85.24.222.68', 0, '5e8d3101220dd9e9629cae2d124a32c7', 208, 1160948007) 2 Query SELECT sid FROM sessions WHERE sid = '5e8d3101220dd9e9629cae2d124a32c7' 2 Query UPDATE sessions SET uid = 0, cache = 0, hostname = '85.24.222.68', session = '', time stamp = 1160948007 WHERE sid = '5e8d3101220dd9e9629cae2d124a32c7' 2 Quit

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