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Help with category and taxonomy
by Reynier Perez Mira 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

Hi list: Because I'm newbie with Drupal I really can't understand how category system works. In CMS like *Nuke, Joomla and others I simply do this: - Add category - Add news to the category But here in Drupal I see some new terms for me like Taxonomy and some others. Where I can found a tutorial or better a explanation for how this part of Drupal works? Cheers and thanks in advance -- ReynierPM 5to Ing. Informática Maestro de poco, aprendiz de mucho

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Re: [support] Making some changes to my Drupal
by Reynier Perez Mira 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

Hi again Larry: Before all thanks for your reply again. After send the email I do a intensive check in all the themes directory and found that the same files, except .engine", in every directory have similarity, I mean in the code. So I made a backup and then edit the files like block.tpl.php for example and get the expect result. This put me happy because I end my job for now. I just need playing now with CSS styles for make the site. Cheers and thanks for all -- ReynierPM 5to Ing. Informática Maestro de poco, aprendiz de mucho -----Mensaje original----- De: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] En nombre de Larry Garfield Enviado el: sábado, 25 de noviembre de 2006 11:22 am Para: support(a)drupal.org Asunto: Re: [support] Making some changes to my Drupal Don't change the files in the phptemplate engine directory! Copy them to you own theme and edit them there. They're designed to "override" like that. Never edit a file that's part of the core distribution, as that makes maintenance and upgrading a nightmare. Really though, if your client is demanding exactly how the HTML looks, not just requiring that it validate (which I'm fine with), then the client should be doing it himself. Any CMS is going to have HTML output that does't look perfectly hand-crafted, because, well, it isn't hand-crafted. That's the point. :-) On Saturday 25 November 2006 09:24, Reynier Perez Mira wrote: > Hi Larry and thanks for your reply: > I know that make or edit a theme is easy. Me use Smarty in some > projects weeks ago and in "Drupal Modules" repostory I found something > related to Smarty. I know also that Drupal use by default PHPTemplate > and follow the instructions in Drupal Tutorials I make a simple theme, > one using Smarty as enginee and another using PHPTemplate. I know too > that Drupal generate valid XHTMLStrint/CSS pages but this people want > more. Anyway I check the themes/engines/phptemplate directory and see > some files with the default settings. So I make some changes there and > then try to see if this is that they want. Cheers > -- > ReynierPM > 5to Ing. Informática > Maestro de poco, aprendiz de mucho > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] En > nombre de Larry Garfield Enviado el: sábado, 25 de noviembre de 2006 > 12:09 am > Para: support(a)drupal.org > Asunto: Re: [support] Making some changes to my Drupal > > Hi, Reynier. Drupal's default theme output can be tricky at times > because it's so heavy, I agree. However, all default themes and all > core modules output valid XHTML Strict and CSS, by design. The > example you gave, for instance, is valid XHTML Strict and CSS. > "div.title h2" is a perfectly valid CSS selector. > > So if someone insists that you output valid XHTML/CSS, then Drupal > does that by default. (What you do in your own theme is your > business, of course. <g>) If, however, they want something with fewer > CSS hooks (fewer nested <div> tags, for instance), then you'll need to > override theme functions to change the HTML that gets generated. See > the theme developers handbook for ways to go about doing that: > > http://drupal.org/node/509 > > 90% of the time you'll only be interested in the PHPTemplate theme > system, as that's what almost everyone uses. XTemplate is deprecated > and shouldn't be used anymore. > > Cheers. > > On Friday 24 November 2006 23:26, Reynier Perez Mira wrote: > > Hi to every: > > I'm newbiew working with Drupal and right now some people ask me for > > a clean page. What that's mean? Made only using CSS and XHTML valid > > both of them. I take a look at some tutorials in Drupal site but I'm > > encountered with some others problems. For example some parts, by > > default, have this: <h2 class="title">Something here</h2>. But I > > don't want really, I want something like that: <div > > class="title"><h2>something here/h2></div>, why? Simply: when I try to apply a padding to the class: > > h2.title the CSS rules logically move the entire element and I don't > > looking for that. I only need move the content of the element with class: > > title. See a little example > > below: > > > > <h2 class="title">Something here</h2> > > > > CSS rules: > > h2.title { line-height: 25px; padding: 0 0 0 10px; /* Move element > > 10px from the right to the left */ } > > > > Now If I have this: > > <div class="title"><h2>something here/h2></div> > > > > And then the some changes in my CSS rules: > > .title h2 { padding: 0 0 0 10px; /* Move text 10px from the right to > > the left */ } > > > > This is what I'm looking for. Understand? > > Cheers, thanks in advance and soury for my poor English > > -- > > ReynierPM > > 5to Ing. Informática > > Maestro de poco, aprendiz de mucho > > -- > Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 > larry(a)garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 > > "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of > exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an > idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps > it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into > the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." > -- Thomas Jefferson -- > [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry(a)garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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Re: [support] Making some changes to my Drupal
by Reynier Perez Mira 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

Hi Larry and thanks for your reply: I know that make or edit a theme is easy. Me use Smarty in some projects weeks ago and in "Drupal Modules" repostory I found something related to Smarty. I know also that Drupal use by default PHPTemplate and follow the instructions in Drupal Tutorials I make a simple theme, one using Smarty as enginee and another using PHPTemplate. I know too that Drupal generate valid XHTMLStrint/CSS pages but this people want more. Anyway I check the themes/engines/phptemplate directory and see some files with the default settings. So I make some changes there and then try to see if this is that they want. Cheers -- ReynierPM 5to Ing. Informática Maestro de poco, aprendiz de mucho -----Mensaje original----- De: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] En nombre de Larry Garfield Enviado el: sábado, 25 de noviembre de 2006 12:09 am Para: support(a)drupal.org Asunto: Re: [support] Making some changes to my Drupal Hi, Reynier. Drupal's default theme output can be tricky at times because it's so heavy, I agree. However, all default themes and all core modules output valid XHTML Strict and CSS, by design. The example you gave, for instance, is valid XHTML Strict and CSS. "div.title h2" is a perfectly valid CSS selector. So if someone insists that you output valid XHTML/CSS, then Drupal does that by default. (What you do in your own theme is your business, of course. <g>) If, however, they want something with fewer CSS hooks (fewer nested <div> tags, for instance), then you'll need to override theme functions to change the HTML that gets generated. See the theme developers handbook for ways to go about doing that: http://drupal.org/node/509 90% of the time you'll only be interested in the PHPTemplate theme system, as that's what almost everyone uses. XTemplate is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. Cheers. On Friday 24 November 2006 23:26, Reynier Perez Mira wrote: > Hi to every: > I'm newbiew working with Drupal and right now some people ask me for a > clean page. What that's mean? Made only using CSS and XHTML valid both > of them. I take a look at some tutorials in Drupal site but I'm > encountered with some others problems. For example some parts, by default, have this: > <h2 class="title">Something here</h2>. But I don't want really, I want > something like that: <div class="title"><h2>something here/h2></div>, why? > Simply: when I try to apply a padding to the class: h2.title the CSS > rules logically move the entire element and I don't looking for that. > I only need move the content of the element with class: title. See a > little example > below: > > <h2 class="title">Something here</h2> > > CSS rules: > h2.title { line-height: 25px; padding: 0 0 0 10px; /* Move element > 10px from the right to the left */ } > > Now If I have this: > <div class="title"><h2>something here/h2></div> > > And then the some changes in my CSS rules: > .title h2 { padding: 0 0 0 10px; /* Move text 10px from the right to > the left */ } > > This is what I'm looking for. Understand? > Cheers, thanks in advance and soury for my poor English > -- > ReynierPM > 5to Ing. Informática > Maestro de poco, aprendiz de mucho -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry(a)garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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Making some changes to my Drupal
by Reynier Perez Mira 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

Hi to every: I'm newbiew working with Drupal and right now some people ask me for a clean page. What that's mean? Made only using CSS and XHTML valid both of them. I take a look at some tutorials in Drupal site but I'm encountered with some others problems. For example some parts, by default, have this: <h2 class="title">Something here</h2>. But I don't want really, I want something like that: <div class="title"><h2>something here/h2></div>, why? Simply: when I try to apply a padding to the class: h2.title the CSS rules logically move the entire element and I don't looking for that. I only need move the content of the element with class: title. See a little example below: <h2 class="title">Something here</h2> CSS rules: h2.title { line-height: 25px; padding: 0 0 0 10px; /* Move element 10px from the right to the left */ } Now If I have this: <div class="title"><h2>something here/h2></div> And then the some changes in my CSS rules: .title h2 { padding: 0 0 0 10px; /* Move text 10px from the right to the left */ } This is what I'm looking for. Understand? Cheers, thanks in advance and soury for my poor English -- ReynierPM 5to Ing. Informática Maestro de poco, aprendiz de mucho

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Re: [support] [development] Newbie with Drupal and Modules Development
by Larry Garfield 23 Nov '06

23 Nov '06

On Thursday 23 November 2006 12:11, Reynier Perez Mira wrote: > Hi to every in the Community: > First of all let me tell to every that I'm newbie using Drupal and > developing modules for it. In my University me and a groups of student > start to using Drupal for a Web Portal but we need some additional > functionalities like documentation management. This special module have in > the first version this: * Allow users to upload every kind of files, maybe > we need filter the .doc, .pdf, .zip and .tar.gz files * This files need to > be upload to a FTP Server > * Allow administrators admin (approve, edit info, delete) the files from > the FTP So, because I'm the Team Manager I need some information about how > to develop modules (if is in Spanish better). I read some tutorials in the > Drupal site but some stuff are not clear for me like permissions, access, > menu, integrate admin and users and some others. Cheers, thanks in advance > and waiting for your reply Drupal can't track files uploaded via FTP independently of Drupal. It has no way of knowing they're there. However, if web-based upload is OK for you, then there are, I believe, at least 2 "files as nodes" modules availabe in contrib. Simply set the default publishing state for the node to "in moderation queue, not published", and then you can use the usual node moderation options to allow admins to approve or delete pending nodes. This is more of a support question than a devel question, though, so I'm copying this over to the support list. Please reply there. Thanks. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry(a)garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson

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23 Nov '06

I can login but if I click anything afterwards it shows me as not logged in (i.e. I don't have permissions and the login form is back on page). It used to work before, not sure what changed (php was updated on my machine) Any ideas how to troubleshoot? I don't see any error message in apache logs, is there some place where I can see drupal errors? Looked at db but no obvious tables with errors/logs. TIA, erik

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Video.Google and Youtube embed bugs
by blogdiva＠culturekitchen.com 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

Does anybody have any insight as why video clip embeds do not appear in IE6? I am running the embed module and have identifies which services I've allowed. Is there anything I may be missing? Thanks, Liza Sabater, Publisher www.culturekitchen.com www.dailygotham.com TEL - 646.552.7365 AIM - cultkitdiva SKYPE - lizasabater

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Fwd: Video.Google and Youtube embed bugs
by Corey Bordelon 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

Sorry, I remembered this right after I hit send on the last reply. Youtube and Google Video (Youtoogle?) have to use both <embed> tags with <object> tags inside to support IE6 (I don't remember which one IE6 does or doesn't support). Make sure both are being used. On 11/20/06, Corey Bordelon <coreb(a)coreb.net> wrote: > > I'm not on a windows machine ATM, but I would suggest going to the Youtube > video that you are embedding and get embed code, then manually paste it into > another node. If it works in that one, then there is something the embed > module is doing wrong. So then do a view source on the embed module's page > and see what's the difference between the code you got from youtube, and the > code the embed module makes. > > Sorry if I'm stating the obvious/something you've already tried. > > On 11/19/06, blogdiva(a)culturekitchen.com <blogdiva(a)culturekitchen.com> > wrote: > > > Does anybody have any insight as why video clip embeds do not appear in > > IE6? I am running the embed module and have identifies which services I've > > allowed. Is there anything I may be missing? > > Thanks, > > > > * Liza Sabater, Publisher* > > > > www.culturekitchen.com > > > > www.dailygotham.com > > > > > > TEL - 646.552.7365 > > > > AIM - cultkitdiva > > > > SKYPE - lizasabater > > > > ** > > > > > > -- > > [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] > > > > >

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20 Nov '06

Hi gang, Has the log in bug reported by Jasonwhat been looked at in updates of 4.7? Some Users Can't Login in IE http://drupal.org/node/83822 This may have been the weirdest bug to date: Basically some versions of IE6 won't allow you to login to a Drupal site. It seems by the comments that IE7 may have an issue as well. How did I solve this? Well, as hinted in comment http://drupal.org/ node/83822#comment-168204 if you login through SITENAME.COM instead of WWW.SITENAME.COM, then you don't have a problem. So, in thinking about this, I went to settings.php. I had set the base_url as www.culturekitchen.com. I changed it to culturekitchen.com and, voila! The problem was solved. I'd like comments on this --have I done this correctly or is this solution coming back to bite me in the arse ;) Thanks for the heads up, Liza Sabater, Publisher www.culturekitchen.com www.dailygotham.com TEL - 646.552.7365 AIM - cultkitdiva SKYPE - lizasabater

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Staying Connected
by Tony Budak 19 Nov '06

19 Nov '06

1 -- Is there a way to subscribe to all the threads and or forums so that a person's email address would receive a notice when someone posts? 2 -- If one used RSS could that accomplish the some result, staying connected to the updating information? Thanks, Tony

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