January 2008 - support - lists.drupal.org

List of Drupal Sites?
by ian＠corpwatch.org 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

Googled it but didn't find the most desirable results. Anyone know of a list of really good drupal sites? I am trying to get my users to look at other Drupal sites to brainstorm feature requests, instead of just making them up. I found a few, like MTV UK and The Onion, anyone know other popular/famous ones?

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Location(s) in Teaser
by ian＠corpwatch.org 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

I would like to remove the Location(s) in the teasers of a view for a particular content type, but there doesn't seem to be a setting to do this. I am looking at http://www.crocodyl.org on the left hand side under "Featured companies". I would like to show just the teaser and the title. --ian--

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Issues with initializing Variables on startup..
by Scott Matthews 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

I found what Appears to be a bug (or two) with initializing variables in Drupal. It is suggested that you can uncomment and set initial variable values in settings.php with the $conf array. In doing so, and not seeing my variables set when retrieving using variable_get, I discovered that conf_init(), when called to initialize the configure file path, it sets $conf to a string. I know that since it initializes settings.php within the context it conceptually SHOULD reset it to a variable, but it doesn't. I proved this by changing the variable array name in settings.php, variable_get, variable_set, variable_init and conf_init to $config_vars and the values I initialized in settings.php were reflected when my application later retrieved them using variable_get. This bug is currently hindering the flexibility of an application that I'm writing that will be deployed to different environments. I initially tried to set the variables in the 'variable' table of the Database in order to retrieve them with variable_get but that method only accesses the cached variables in $conf (or in my case, $config_vars. Is this on purpose? I see that variable_set will not only set the cached variable but will also set into the database. This seems to be a bug as well to me. Can someone clarify this for me? Scott Matthews

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Thickbox wizard implementation..
by Scott Matthews 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

I know this is a general open ended question but, has anyone had any luck attempting to create a wizard implementation for their site utilizing Forms in Thickbox? My team is attempting this and not having too much luck without trying to do a hack of updating an anchor tags HREF and saving to a variable. Does anyone have any experience in this? Scott Matthews Senior Developer (w) 617-227-1855 x164 (m) 617-710-8430 (f) 617-224-5388 smatthews(a)optaros.com

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primary menus link to #??
by Brett Evanson 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

I'm using drop down menus via nice_menu, and I want my top level menus to not be clickable(or refer to #). I put the # in the menu item, and it gets output as %23. I don't really want to turn off the check_plain or whatever is getting run on that to output it, but is there another way to make those top links not link anywhere? -- Brett Evanson HYPERLINK "mailto:brettev@gmail.com"brettev(a)gmail.com No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.15/1249 - Release Date: 1/29/2008 9:51 AM

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B7 Theme / Nice Menus drop down centered?
by Brett Evanson 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

I'm trying to get nice menus to work on my B7 themed site, and I can't get the primary menus to center. I replaced the primary menu call with the header region (changed in page.tpl.php) and they show up, but I have changed every place I can think of, and it is still not centering the menus. Any theme gurus have an idea what I should be altering? Thanks -- Brett Evanson <mailto:brettev@gmail.com> brettev(a)gmail.com

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Drupal 6.0 new features
by Tom Holmes Jr. 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

I've recently viewed the video from the Drupal.org site about the new features it will have. It seems that there were some new modules added into the core ... but I thought there were a lot more modules added to the core? Apart from what was on the video, can anyone point me to a link where I can find that information? I was wondering if CCK, Views, and other modules were added to core drupal .... Thanks! Tom

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New Drupal 5.7. But the patch ?
by Davide Michel 'ZioBudda' Morelli 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hi all. I have see that there is the new Drupal version 5.7. The upgrade is raccomanded. But there is only the full package and not the patch file. Anyone can say me where I can find this file ? I can't and I don't want to reinstall all package and all modules. M. -- Michel 'ZioBudda' Morelli michel(a)ziobudda.net Consulenza sistemistica in ambito OpenSource. Sviluppo applicazioni web dinamiche (LAMP+Ajax) Telefono: 0200619074 Telefono Cell: +39-3939890025 -- Fax: +39-0291390660 http://www.ziobudda.net ICQ: 58351764 http://www.ziobuddalabs.it Skype: zio_budda http://www.ajaxblog.it MSN: michel(a)ziobuddalabs.it JABBER: michel(a)gmail.com

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How to intercept the search
by Davide Michel 'ZioBudda' Morelli 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hi all. I need to store, for a later analysis, what user write in the search box. I have searched on Google, but I have found only how to intercept and modify the output of the search. Tnx. -- Michel 'ZioBudda' Morelli michel(a)ziobudda.net Consulenza sistemistica in ambito OpenSource. Sviluppo applicazioni web dinamiche (LAMP+Ajax) Telefono: 0200619074 Telefono Cell: +39-3939890025 -- Fax: +39-0291390660 http://www.ziobudda.net ICQ: 58351764 http://www.ziobuddalabs.it Skype: zio_budda http://www.ajaxblog.it MSN: michel(a)ziobuddalabs.it JABBER: michel(a)gmail.com

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VPS/Dedicated hosting
by Brett Evanson 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

I'm trying to decide between dedicated hosting and a VPS setup. Make sure I understand this correctly. In both cases, you can control your mysql connections, and you get all of them, so that won't change. The thing that changes between a VPS and a dedicated server is the amount of RAM and CPU that you are given, right? Having said that, for a site that isn't media intensive (mostly flat page), how am I to gauge how much RAM/CPU I need, especially when the numbers for expected visitors is obviously throwing a dart at a board? Is there any general rule of thumb for how many page views/users/hits translates into xxx RAM/CPU requirements? I understand this is a almost ridiculous question, as it is difficult to pinpoint something like this, but am I able to expect hundreds of users on a VPS? Thousands? 20? Any direction would be greatly appreciated. -- Brett Evanson HYPERLINK "mailto:brettev@gmail.com"brettev(a)gmail.com No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.15/1249 - Release Date: 1/29/2008 9:51 AM

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