August 2007 - support - lists.drupal.org

white screen of death
by John Barreiros 25 Aug '07

25 Aug '07

I've been building a site (ecommerce, simplenews, mailmime, and a bunch of others) on our development server. I transfered it to the live host today and imported the db. When I pulled up the site I get a white screen. We've loaded up sites on this host before without a problem, so there is some strange thing going on with this new site. I really don't want to rebuild the site from scratch on the host. It'll take days. So, is there some way I can debug this? See exactly where it's failing? The hosts errors logs show nothing. I tried some insert "echo" commands here and there to do some rudimentary tracing. It's failing when "print theme('page', $return);" is called in index.php. I sprinkled some echos in phptemplate.engine but I became overwhelmed because I don't know exactly how the functions get called, in what order, etc. Any help would be appreciated.

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managing subscriptions
by Stefan Seefeld 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

Hello, I'm considering to set up a community site with organic groups, forums, newsletters, etc. What is the best way to set up a set of users to receive forum messages (& comments) by mail, so it acts like a traditional mailing list ? I read about a 'subscription' module that lets individual users subscribe to nodes. Is there a way to manage subscriptions from a central place, i.e. as a forum moderator / admin ? Thanks, Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...

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more bookmarks
by paola.dimaio＠gmail.com 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

Greets I want to have more bookmarks, I would like to be able to add them dinamically (as there are new ones everyday) is there such a feature? if not, is anyone interested in working with me to develop it and realease it? (add new bookmarl, paste the html here) thanks Paola dm

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develop to test to production server question
by sander-martijn 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

Anyone know of a place that lists out which files and database tables need to be changed when migrating drupal from one server to another? If not could someone take the time to list them out for me? It would save a lot of headaches. We're setting up our test server now and when it's ready I will copy the database and drupal files to the new server so that content editors can begin entering the content without the risk of my code taking them down. I have enough of the site already configured that I would rather not set it up from scratch but obviously there will be things that need to change (hostname, possibly paths, db connect info etc). Once it's set up I'll move forward with the traditional develop, test, deploy approach so I don't need a complex setup to synchronize the db or anything, and I don't need directions on how to set up a database or apache or anything - a one time copy/configure these files, change those database entries should be sufficient.

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drupal_get_path not found/working
by Jody Cleveland 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

Hello, I've been running Drupal for quite some time now, and I've always had a problem that I'm finally frustrated enough to try to fix. For some reason, my system does not recognize drupal_get_path. I run into errors any time I try to install a module. So, what I end up needing to do is go into the .module file and change anywhere there's drupal_get_path to be the full path to that file it's looking at. Any ideas how to fix this? Is this a drupal setting, or php? Thank you for any help you can provide. - jody

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Image Nightmare
by A-NO-NE Music 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

Image Nightmare: my image directory has thousands of image files. I just realized they have been multiplying themselves. Some files. but not all, goes like this. <filename>_1.jpg . . <filename>_197.jpg Yet the live image is still <filename>.jpg. This file was uploaded long time ago, and the related nodes has not been modified at all. The time stamp of between the increments are 4+ hours, but is not matching to the cron runtime. What is causing this? Any suggestion would be appreciated. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com>

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Drupal API?
by A-NO-NE Music 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Drupal API site doesn't have printer friendly version. I started to fetch into Acrobat this morning, and it is still running. It's about 340 pages now, and I am about to abort. Is there printed version of API somewhere? How others are doing? Every time I see code example, I get stuck because I don't understand the param which are passed. Do I understand everyone is familiar with the API, and the only way to understand the code is to know the API? I am a noob and I would like to learn step-by-step. I did buy Pro Drupal Dev book. The 2nd chapter goes right into Module without any explanation of API. Appreciate any suggestion. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com>

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audio module + itunes pocast images?
by will hall 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

hi all, so i am loading my weekly podcast onto audio modules, and have a feed at feedburner that points to a view with all the audio nodes tagged as episodes. so far so good, shows up when i subscribe by hand on itunes. i have not submitted to the itunes directory yet though, because i am confused about how the audio module handles images. when i add an image under "itunes feed information" it seems to show up in the node both teaser and body. ok that's good. but will this also put it in the rss for the file that itunes will read, and will it be standards compliant so that the image will show up on the itunes directory? after i have added the image and it shows up in the node, it still does not show up in itunes when i have subscribed to the podcast url. how does the audio module handle itunes image tags, and what do i need to do here... -- will

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Site in development:
by J-P Stacey 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Hi, On a site that's in development (where e.g. theme files are being moved around a lot, and in fact database contents are being copied from one development system to another with their system tables intact and hence incorrect on the new system), is there any reason *not* to call module_rebuild_cache and system_theme_data on every page (apart from performance)? I notice that the former uses UPDATEs on the system table in the database, whereas the latter uses DELETE/INSERTs to flush out all themes before re-INSERTing them. Cheers, J-P -- J-P Stacey +44 (0)1608 811870 http://torchbox.com

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tweaking php to get random images from multiple galleries
by will hall 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

hi all, this is from the -> PHP snippets section of the drupal website: Customization and theming » PHP snippets » PHP block snippets Random image from a particular category/gallery can someone help tweak this so you can have it grab the images from several diferent galleries, rather than just one? i'm very new to php, but i don't think adding several gallery names, separated by commas, will work... thanks! -- will <?php $gallery_name='Enter the name of the gallery here'; $term = taxonomy_get_term_by_name($gallery_name); $tid = $term[0]->tid; $thumbs = 0; while ($thumbs<1) { $images = (image_get_random($count = 1, $tid)); print l(image_display($images[0], 'thumbnail'),'node/'.$images[0]->nid, array(), null, null, FALSE, TRUE); $thumbs++; } ?>

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