May 2007 - support - lists.drupal.org

Extra sitewide variables/configuration - where best to put them?
by J-P Stacey 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Hi, We're building a site for a client that's taking donations on a rolling basis. We'd therefore like to have e.g. the running total of donations stored in some centralized place that the client can update, and I was wondering where would be the right place to put that. Any ideas? Extra input fields on admin/settings/site-information would feel right, but I'm not sure how to hook into that or if so how to get at the additional content from within PHPTemplate. Best regards, J-P

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Possible to display taxonomy alphabetically?
by Jody Cleveland 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hello, I'm running a site using Drupal 5.1, and have a question regarding taxonomy pages. I've got a category for a booklist: http://beta.menashalibrary.org/childrens/books/preschoolers/bugs It shows the term 'bugs' in order of the newest to oldest. Is there a way to view these alphabetically by title? - jody

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immediate installation errors
by Tim McGeary 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Greetings, I'm trying to install Drupal 5.1 and I am getting the following errors immediately upon attempting the installation through the browser: Notice: Undefined variable: no_module_preprocess in /usr/local/drupal-5.1/includes/common.inc on line 1467 Notice: Undefined variable: no_theme_preprocess in /usr/local/drupal-5.1/includes/common.inc on line 1488 and Drupal database setup The following error must be resolved before you can continue the installation process: The Drupal installer requires write permissions to ./sites/default/settings.php during the installation process. For the write permissions error, I set the permissions to 777 for everything inside the drupal-5.1 directory and all files are owned by apache.apache. I have no clue how to move forward. Please advise. Thank you, Tim -- Tim McGeary '99, '06G Senior Systems Specialist Lehigh University 610-758-4998 tim.mcgeary(a)lehigh.edu

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Have I planned this all wrong?
by A-NO-NE Music 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

My main section "ABOUT" contains: -My BIO -My Discography -- As a Leader -- As a Supporting Musician -My show schedule -Video Clips -Audio Clips -The list of musicians who plays for my shows (present/past) I did this by creating custom content types to each of them. After many days of trial and error, they all shows up as desired using Views. However, as I moved onto other section, such as my jazz theory section, where I used Book, I realized if I should had done all the "ABOUT" section in Book. The main reasons are: - Book provides "previous" and "next" node hyperlink at the bottom - Book provides summarized front page For example, I couldn't figure out how to create a View just to list the titles of all the subsections, like Book provides. If I want to convert all the "ABOUT" subsections to a Book, can it be done? I couldn't find it how. Searching at Drupal site but to no avail so far. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com>

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Book question
by A-NO-NE Music 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Book function is cool, but I can't find the way to place icon/image besides the title link of each subsections. Any help would be appreciated. P.S., I think my main issue is I am far from being used to how to phrase when I search at Drupal site and/or Google. I get so many hits on irrelevant discussion threads. Is there any tip on this? -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com>

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Video module needs help
by A-NO-NE Music 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

I have tried Flash movie player for two days but Video module has been nothing but headaches. The interface doesn't provide me [Upload] button (might be related to 99/99 permission issue I can't solve) so I tried to load flv file from different server. DB has correct path to the remote server, but when I tried to load it, it is looking for video.flv on local instead of <remote>/<filename>.flv. Ack! The thumbnail is looking for root directory. In this case, I can't even find the path entry in DB. It is also looking for video.jpg instead of <filename>.jpg. I don't understand how this got be so wrong. Previously I tried Acidfree since it sez video album, but there is no video content type I can find that documentation tells me. How do others implementing Flash movie player into v5.1/Garland? -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com>

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Drupal Install Directory
by Mitch Wander 31 May '07

31 May '07

What variables are available for use in my PHP code that indicate the directory in which directory Drupal is installed? Thank you. Mitch

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Another Img Assist question
by A-NO-NE Music 31 May '07

31 May '07

I just realized all of the Image Assist produced thumbnail's alpha channel is turned into black. Is there anyway to stop this? -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com>

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Image Assist Default Path?
by A-NO-NE Music 30 May '07

30 May '07

Every time I insert Image, Image Assist puts absolute path. This is bad since I am doing all this on a staging server. I have been retyping the path to relative every single time, but I also fear I might have missed somewhere. I can't find where I can change this default path behavior. Any help would be appreciated. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com>

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A view of views . . .
by Jason Flatt 29 May '07

29 May '07

I'm trying to figure out how to do this, and haven't been successful so far. I've got several views configured that show a list of some nodes based on my specified criteria. What I want now is a view to list the titles of some or all of those views I've created. Is that possible, if so how? I've perused the list on fields and filters and tried many different combinations, but none of them have given me what I'm looking for. Thanks. -- Jason Flatt http://www.oadaeh.net/ Father of Six: http://www.flattfamily.com/ (Joseph, 14; Cramer, 12; Travis, 10; Angela; Harry, 7; and William, 12:04 am, 12-29-2005) Linux User: http://www.xubuntu.org/ Drupal Fanatic: http://drupal.org/

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