March 2008 - support - lists.drupal.org

Layout
by Troy 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

Hi, What's the protocol for layout and design with Drupal? Should I place formatting items in the css file, or is it alright to do the formatting in Drupal? For example, in the footer section I have the organizations address and phone number. If I want to bold and center the address and phone number, can I just add <center> address </center> in the footer section, or should the <center> tag go into the css file? Thanks, Troy

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Forcing username pattern
by Larry Garfield 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

Hi folks. I've a question that's come up on a number of my sites now. I'd like to be able to disallow users from selecting their own usernames, ever, even on signup. Instead, I want to expose various profile fields (or custom fields via form-alter if necessary) and then base the username off of that. E.g., first intial and last name, all lower-case. Does anyone know of an existing module or mechanism for that, or a common pattern that could be turned into a module? -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry(a)garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson

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Tracking user IP addresses for duplicate accounts
by Larry Garfield 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

Hi again! Another challenge I have is on one site, users keep signing up multiple times with more than one account. That's a problem, as multiple accounts is against our site's TOS since we frequently have votes that are one-vote-per-account. Our legacy system that we killed when we moved to Drupal had built-in IP logging every time a user logged in, so we could go in and check IP addresses in case we suspected a duplicate user. We could also see the IP address someone signed up from, and match that against any recently logged IPs. Does anyone know of a similar tool for Drupal, or is this another module I'm going to have to write myself? :-) -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry(a)garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson

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Advanced User module
by Larry Garfield 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

Last one for tonight, I promise... I am looking into the AdvUser module[1], which seems like a nice utility for searching by user profile fields (among other things). However, its project page says "do not use the 5.x-1.x version", but there's also a 2.x version branched. The issue queue doesn't look especially active. Does anyone have any experience with it, good or bad? [1] http://drupal.org/project/advuser -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry(a)garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson

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First Term of every taxonomy missing from views filters
by Chris McCreery 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

Hi I have a problem with my Views. I created a custom view and set up a filter for a few vocabularies however the first term of each vocabulary is missing from the exposed and hidden filters. I'm not sure what is wrong, anyone have any ideas? Thank you very much. -- Chris McCreery

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Clean URLs
by Troy 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

Hi, I'm setting up a drupal site on a server that looks like it's a shared host (vhost). Instead of having /var/www/ for my directories, I have /httdocs . I do not have access to the .httpd.conf file for any apache files. The user interface on this server is Plesk, which I'm still getting use to. I set up my database, and installed drupal, but I can't get clean urls activated. Clear urls does pass the test, but when I click on the enable button, the selection jumps back to disable, therefore, I cannot save the enable clean url settings. What recommendations do you have? Thanks, Troy

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Unable To Access Admin Area After Move
by Steve Edwards 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

I have a 5.x site using CiviCRM that was developed under a subdomain (i.e. dev.example.com) and we took it live, so it is now at www.example.com. Everything seems to be fine other than the fact that I am unable to access the Admin area. When I try in FF, I get "www.example.com has sent an incorrect or unexpected message: Error Code: -12263", and in Internet Exploder I get the standard "This page cannot be displayed." I can log in and get to other parts of the site just fine. I searched for that error, and it appears to be specific to SSL. I'm using SSL on this site (for CiviCRM and Ubercart), but I shouldn't be using it just to get into the Drupal Admin area, should I? Thanks. Steve

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changing host: dealing with mails
by Augustin (Beginner) 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

Hello, One of my web sites is changing host. I have prepared the Drupal files, and used /etc/hosts to test the Drupal site at its new location. Now, I only need to shut down the site, make a last sql dump, import it and then, lastly, change the DNS. But it only now occurred to me that migrating a web server is only half of changing hosts. What about mails? What is a good procedure to migrate all the mails on the server, and also to make sure that no mail is lost during the DNS change (during the propagation of the new DNS)? I have not found a page on the web about a best practice about changing hosts, what data to migrate, what not, and how to be prepared to avoid troubles. Any hints? Thanks. Augustin. --

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Roles and view
by Davide Michel 'ZioBudda' Morelli 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

Hi, I want to create a view only for users of one role. How can I do it ? In the filter list there is nothing about roles. 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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Override function
by Marolijo - Pol maresma 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

Hello, I use views export to generate a CSV. It uses this function to export fields: $value = views_theme_field('views_handle_field', $field['queryname'], $fields, $field, $node, $view); I need to override this function for imagefield type, to output the filepath only. Where should I put it? Thank's! Pol Maresma / pol(a)polnetwork.com PolNetwork.com / Serveis d'Internet msn: marolijo

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