October 2007 - support - lists.drupal.org

Advanced user profile
by Vasileios Lourdas 21 Oct '07

21 Oct '07

Hi, Any module/coding tip for advanced user profiles? What I'm looking for is ability to add new user profile fields (eg. phone number) and allow the user to hide/show them from other users upon their preference. I know the core profile module offers this ability, but I'm more interested in my second requirement. Thanks in advance, -- # Vasileios Lourdas, # Informatics Engineer, Thessaloniki (Greece) # http://www.lourdas.name

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How portable are drupal web sites?
by Roy Smith 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

As an old-time unix hacker, I know my way around the inside of a web server pretty well, but right now I'm in "I want a tool not a hobby" mode and need to find a web hosting service for a club I belong to. There seem to be plenty of places out there offering amazing amounts disk/bandwidth/etc for amazingly low prices, and it's not clear how to determine which are fly-by-night and which are reliable. So, the question is, if I go with a hosting service and later decide to switch to a different provider, how hard is it to pick up my drupal-based site and move it to another host? Is it as simple as finding another place that offers LAMP services, dumping the database, and restoring it onto the new server? And, of course, changing the DNS registration. -- roy(a)panix.com

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Multi-site question
by Daniel Carrera 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

Hello, In a multi-site, where all the sites share the same installation, is it also a good idea to have them all share the same database but using a different prefix? Or is there a reason why this would be a bad idea? I would prefer to have fewer databases since my webhost likes to charge a fee for each database we have, but not if it's going to cause a lot of problems later. Thanks, Daniel.

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Different header image for each section
by Bob Morse 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

We¹re working on a redesign of an existing site. They new design includes a photo in the header. But I¹d like one photo to appear on all pages for one section (all pages grouped under one subject) of the site and a different photo for all pages of another section of the site, and so on. Any ideas on the simplest way to implement this? We¹re using 5.2.2.

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Permissions Problem
by Fred Jones 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

Seems that if a node uses "Full HTML" then a user needs PHP rights to edit it. Is there a way to give him rights to Full HTML and not PHP? Thanks.

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Upgrade to Drupal 5?
by Daniel Carrera 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Hello, I have a production website that runs on Drupal 4.7. Should I move it to Drupal 5.2? I'm concerned that migrating might be difficult, might be work, or might cause downtime for my users. On the other hand, I'm concerned about staying with an old software version that might become unsupported in the future, and that migration might be more difficult later. My Drupal 4.7 site has several modules added on and I figure that these might not all work in Drupal 5. My understanding is that backwards compatibility is not a development goal for Drupal. So perhaps the best way to "migrate" is to essentially re-do the website from scratch and then copy all the content from the 4.7 site. I'm generally happy with Drupal 4.7. Is there any page that briefly explains what's new and exciting in Drupal 5 that might make one want to move to it? Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Daniel.

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Overhead Question about No. of Modules in sites/all on Multi-Site Installation
by Shai Gluskin 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Even if you have hundreds of contrib modules loaded into /sites/all, it would not affect performance on a site that only enabled a small number of them because modules don't cause a load on the system when they are not enabled. The main downside to this would be on the usability and loading time of admin/build/modules. Is this correct? If not, please explain. Thank you, Shai

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Newbie Question (Theme Layouts)
by Charlie Davis 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

I'm looking for a theme for Drupal that has a navigation bar across the top, quick links on the right to various pages directly inside the site, and then a sub-navigation on the left hand side. Basically what I'm looking for is that the user goes to the main page, they see a navbar and the quick links. They click on an item on the navbar and when they're in that section, they see the same layout but now there's a navigation bar on the left hand side for that section. Sorry if this seems real basic but I'm new to this whole CMS thing. The actual placement of the items I can modify, just trying to find a theme to get started. -Charlie

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showing if there are unread posts in forum
by Morten Holmstrup 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Hi, I might have asked about this before, so sorry if I'm double-posting, but this problem has bugged me forever... I want to show my visitors if there are new posts in my subforums. But I can only get drupal to count the number of new topics - it is not including comments, so my icon for new posts will not show if there are new comments in the subforum, but no new topics. Should be really simple, right? But I'm not able to build a correct query. Any help with this - just some pointers - would be extremely helpful!!! thanks Morten

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statistics not working on some node types
by pyg 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Hi there, Do you know if the core statistics module allow some node content types to be excluded from being logged ? Since a few days, one of my CCK node type doesn't seem to execute statistics_exit() anymore, and I just can't figure out why ! I use a custom theme using a node-mycck_theme_name.tpl.php file, and everything works fine except that stats are not recorded anymore. I search in all administration pages, google & drupal search, but couldn't find where this could come from... :-( _Any_ ideas welcome... Thanks, Pierre-Yves

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