December 2007 - support - lists.drupal.org

Can't Fix "unexpected $end" error in theme file
by Steve Edwards 08 Dec '07

08 Dec '07

I've downloaded a site from a server to my laptop so I can work on it locally, but there's an error I can't get past. When I try to bring up the site, I get an error saying "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in \path\sites\all\themes\themename\page.tpl.php on line 70." Line 70 is the very last line of the template file and all it contains is "</html>" (it's a customized version of the cms theme from the drupal.org) I have gone line by line through the file, and I can't find any opening tags without closing tags or vice versa. This exact same file works fine on the server (I've re-downloaded it to make sure it's the same one) and my desktop PC. To me this indicates something on my laptop. Can anybody she some light on what might be causing this? Thanks. Steve

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Hide preview, custom node field and access upload file
by pipit 08 Dec '07

08 Dec '07

Dear All, I followed the node example of drupal 5. 1. But the preview display not working. Even the edit value will save correctly. Meanwhile I'm debuging it, how to hide/block the preview (also the edit) button? 2. I add custom time field for my node. How to prepare it? Cause on database, it saved as unixtime, I need to process to display to form. Then save it later. (Convert it agan to unixtime) 3. Also, I want to allow user upload file, then my module can access that attachment (like put 5 last image of my nodes). Any idea / function / api for that? Thanks. Pipit. pipit @ http://pipit.web.id

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With or without www prefix ...
by Jim Li 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Hello, My first question is if there is a rule-of-thumb or widely-recognized-convention on whether a site should choose to have www prefix or not. Or is it simple a personal preference of the site owner? My second question is more specific to my case. I didn't setup any url redirect, so my site can be accessed by both: www.example.com and example.com Now I learned that from SEO point of view, it's better to redirect one of them to the other. Personally, I prefer the no-www url, i.e. example.com. However, the site has been up for a couple years, and the two address ends up with different google page ranks. www.example.com PR=7 example.com PR=3 If I were to redirect all www.example.com links to example.com, will that hurt my PR, say drag it down from 7 to 3? I also have gsitemap module installed, is there any setup need to be taken care of there, for example, submit the site or generate sitemaps with/out www prefix? I am a newbie on these SEO and page rank stuff, please advise. Thanks, Jim

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home page is down
by paola.dimaio＠gmail.com 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

It seems to happen periodically by itself I get a page not found error on the home page (www.content-wire.com) how can I fix it? thanks! -- Paola Di Maio School of IT www.mfu.ac.th *********************************************

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create custom editing forms with views?
by sander-martijn 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Hi, I have a gallery on my home page of my photography site http://sander-martijn.com/. The order of the photos is set by a custom integer field named order. This is working well except when I have to edit them - to reorder (not only when I switch the order but if I want to take one off the end and stick another in the middle) I have to edit every image's order number separately until it's appearing in the order I want. This is similar to changing weight of an item in a menu for example. I would like to create an admin "view" or other form that displays a list all of my images (custom content type not the default image type) with the order pulldown available so that I can reorder them all on one page. I immediately thought of views but afaik you can't have a form element on a view like that. Am I wrong with this, and if so does anyone have any other suggestions for creating succh a batch editing page? I'd rather not build a whole module just for this purpose (not too comfortable with how to deal with forms in modules yet). .s

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Installation of Drupal 5.4
by Tom Holmes Jr. 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

I just did a clean fresh un-tarring of Drupal 5.4. I haven't created the database part yet, though the screen comes up. So, I am constantly checking the Apache error_log and in going to this screen (database install) .... I get these messages. [client 192.168.1.167] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: redirect in /var/www/html/drupal-5.4/includes/form.inc on line 268 [client 192.168.1.167] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: base in /var/www/html/drupal-5.4/includes/form.inc on line 465 [client 192.168.1.167] PHP Notice: Undefined index: #value in /var/www/html/drupal-5.4/includes/form.inc on line 1045 [client 192.168.1.167] PHP Notice: Undefined index: #value in /var/www/html/drupal-5.4/includes/form.inc on line 1045 [client 192.168.1.167] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: no_module_preprocess in /var/www/html/drupal-5.4/includes/common.inc on line 1472 [client 192.168.1.167] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: no_theme_preprocess in /var/www/html/drupal-5.4/includes/common.inc on line 1493 Should ... I go back to a previous version of Drupal ... can I provide any more information? I can't imagine this is normal.

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Re: [support] Installing php/mysql issues
by Pat Collins 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:07:22 -0500, "Tom Holmes Jr." <tom(a)tomholmes.net> wrote : > Now I get to the page where I create the first account .... I create the > first account ... and now I get to the page where it says Access Denied > and the first user can't login at all or even to the screen where I set > that first password. > Try deleting your cookies. I had a similar issue what was caused by having a drupal cookie for .domain.tld when I was accessing .server.domain.tld. Pat

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Re: [support] Installing php/mysql issues
by Pat Collins 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

What you need to do is make use of yum. That is the default package manager for centos. Doing something like 'yum search mysql' or 'su -c "yum search mysql"' should give you a list of packages with mysql in it to install. More help is available on the http://www.centos.org site. I recommend that you use the pre-compiled packages to make it easier to maintain your sites. Pat On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:11:58 -0500, "Tom Holmes Jr." <tom(a)tomholmes.net> wrote : > It's RedHat CentOS, not sure what version. So I am looking for the > right rpm to download .... > > should be rpm -i mysql-devel, but it's not finding it ... > I believe that rpm requires the full package name to install. > When I go to: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/php/ > Seems like that one is for Windows only. > > Pat Collins wrote: > > Tom, > > > > What OS is this machine? Maybe there is already a pre-compiled mysql > > package for mysql and php for your particular OS. > > > > Pat > > PS I've changed the subject line to better reflect your issue. > > > > On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:48:02 -0500, "Tom Holmes Jr." <tom(a)tomholmes.net> wrote : > > > > > >> ok .............. deep breaths .... (in through nose, out through > >> mouth) ...... > >> (in through nose, out through mouth) ...... > >> (in through nose, out through mouth) ...... > >> > >> Per the many suggestions ... I've spent the last three hours trying to > >> get Apache/PHP setup. > >> Apache 2.2.6 is working fine .... > >> I downloaded gunziiped PHP 5.2.5 ... untarred, and started to go through > >> the Apache2/PHP Unix installation as found here: > >> http://us.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.apache2.php > >> > >> The instruction say .... > >> ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql > >> > >> So, I did this and got the error message: > >> "configure: error: Cannot find MySQL header files under yes." > >> > >> On the thread located on this page, one user quoted ..... > >> "| There is little or no documentation regarding the fact that MySQL > >> Client Library isn't bundled with PHP anymore. The installation > >> instructions need to be changed with, at the very least, some > >> instructions for how to get PHP to recognize that the client library is > >> installed. I realize that this may be a problem with licensing and as > >> such, it's not possible to document too much regarding MySQL..." > >> > >> Other messages seem to indicate that either: > >> a) MySQL has to be on that box now in order to get the libraries > >> b) you have to download mysql and compile it in order to get the libraries. > >> > >> Can some PLEASE (and I am beggin now) please point me where I can get > >> the PHP MySQL libraries so I can finish configuring my PHP with Apache, > >> so I can correctly test Drupal 5.3 on that system .... > >> Or ................. should I just use an older version of PHP 5.x that > >> DOES have these mySQL libraries .... > >> > >> > >> > > ========================================================================================================================== > > > >> As you might remember from previous messages ... I did two installs of > >> Drupal 5.3 on Resin. > >> One one machine (my laptop) Drupal-Resin-MySQL were all on one machine > >> and it ran without issues. Perfectly fine! > >> > >> In our real-world work environment ... reasonably so, the MySQL Server > >> is on another machine/server and run by MySQL DBA's. > >> And when I did a Resin/Drupal install ... it worked ... but then started > >> to break .... > >> but that could have been on modules issues or something else .... > >> > >> I certainly know (ok, i presume) that Drupal 5.x will perfectly work on > >> Apache/PHP on one machine while the database resides on another machine. > >> Right! > >> > >> I've provided as much information as I have ... if you need more ... > >> please ask me nicely .... > >> > >> Please ... I am begging again ... help me with install PHP with the > >> Mysql Libraries so I can finish configuring it and setting it up. > >> > >> > >> > >> | > >> -- > >> [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] > >> > >> > >> > >> > > -- > [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] > > >

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moving contributed modules to /sites/all
by Sean Burlington 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Hi, I've just taken over a Drupal project which has had contributed modules places in the core modules directory. I'd like to move them out of there to /sites/all while keeping all the settings. Having never put modules in the core directory myself I'm not sure how to fix it ... Any tips on how it should be achieved would be much appreciated. -- Sean

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require_once question inside a new node
by Vasileios Lourdas 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Hi all, I want to integrate Alitalk, a free PHP-AJAX web based chat solution (http://www.alilg.com/software/free-php-ajax-chat/) with Drupal. Alitalk comes in a zip file with a bunch of directories and a index.php file in its root. This index.php file contains a few php directives and the necessary javascripts. So, to start, I create a new page in Drupal and paste the contents of the index.php there. I've put alitalk's files inside a directory called alitalk in the Drupal root. I changed all paths using base_path() and the alitalk prefix. When I click on Submit to create the page, I get the error: Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/~lourdas/dpot/alitalk/functionz/first_process.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php5:/usr/share/php') in /home/lourdas/public_html/dpot/includes/common.inc(1343) : eval()'d code on line 8 (dpot is the Drupal root dir inside public_html) There are a few include directives before that which seem to execute fine. So, the question comes up: Is there a problem using require_once in PHP mode during a new node creation? TIA, -- # Vasileios Lourdas, # Informatics Engineer, Thessaloniki (Greece) # http://www.lourdas.name

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