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(noob) highlighting primary/secondary links (.active)
by HansBKK 19 May '08

19 May '08

I've posted to the post-install forum without result; perhaps my posting was just too long, or I shouldn't ask multiple questions in a single message? (Thanks to Larry for answering my previous post) http://drupal.org/node/258969 So here I'll just ask one (category of) question at a time, but you can respond either here or in a comment there. Using the default setup of the current stable v5.7 - here's my "one" <g> question: I'd like the appropriate primary/secondary links to be highlighted to help orient the visitor while navigating through the site. At a minimum, I'd like this to happen when the visitor actually arrives at a location by using a given menu (see Q2), but really I want to control which links are highlighted even when the user arrives from say a term listing, dated archives, etc. I'd *really* like the highlighting of the menu links to be triggered by the current URL as set by either the core Path module or the contrib Pathauto. Example: a page path'd to somewhere under: "about/facilities" would highlight "about" in the primary links and "facilities" in the secondary. I see from various past postings that the link highlighting is usually done using the ".active class"; please let me know if your suggestion involves another mechanism. I don't want to sound like I'm kvetching (too much) here, but I would have thought that keeping URLs, menu highlighting and (I just thought of the other "path" used for visitor orientation) breadcrumbs in sync for a given node would be something a lot of users would like to see, IMO core functionality for any site management tool. 1. I see the contrib module "Menu Trails" is designed to help with this, but A it is dev only, and this is for a production site, and B it is based on the node's content type or taxonomy terms, not the URL. I was hoping to not get into the complexities of CCK at this early stage of my learning curve, and as far as tagging goes, I can see training the site contributors to set correct URLs on their nodes, but I can't really see them ALSO setting (correctly matching) taxonomy tags. Or is there a way to assign a term based on the assigned URL, or vice-versa. Now *that* (either way) would be great, and not just for this functionality! But Menu Trails is still dev not stable. . . 2. I don't get the menu link highlighting even when the visitor arrived at a page by using the primary/secondary menu navigation. If this isn't a common bug with a known fix, I'll dig further (set up Firebug?) to try to figure out more. 3. Is there a solution that would also tie in with breadcrumbs? Thanks in advance!

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howto manage multiple values in a custom node
by Daniel Caillibaud 18 May '08

18 May '08

Hi all, I'm starting with my first drupal (5.7) module... I want to build a complex custom node type by code (I prefer than with CCK, not to be dependant of such a big module, and also to be sure than nobody can change the structure without change the code too, because I'll have many actions on differents fields and their relations). My problem is about management of multiple values, howto link a list of values to a node ? e.g. with several subjects linked to a node I try first the tables my node type: node_edures(nid,description) a bridge table: edures_fields_subjects(sid,nid) subjects table: edures_subjects(sid,subject) But then, in edures_load(&$node) I can't return an array in a property of my node that doesn't exists... So I tried this design (fssid means fieldset_subject_id): node_edures(nid,description,fssid) edures_fs_subjects(fssid,sid) edures_subjects(sid,subject) And my function edures_load become : $obj = db_fetch_object(db_query('SELECT * FROM {node_edures} WHERE nid = %d', $node->nid)); $subjects = db_query('SELECT subject FROM {edures_fs_subjects} fss LEFT JOIN {edures_subjects} s USING (sid) WHERE fssid = %d;', $obj->fssid); $obj->fssid = array('fssid'=>$obj->fssid, 'subjects'=>array()); $subject = array(); while ($subject = db_fetch_array($subjects)) { $obj->fssid['subjects'][] = $subject['subject']; } return $obj; But it's quite dirty to change initial int of $node->fssid by an array, don't you think so ? What's the better way ? -- Daniel Quand on regarde le ciel dans l'eau, on voit les poissons dans les arbres. Sancho P.

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An inquiry with mbstring
by tata dano 18 May '08

18 May '08

Hello, I am newbie with Drupal but has the desire to setup my own website using it. During my exploration and installation process I've encountered some notification that I should have to install the PHP mbstring extension. Any advice how to do it? A million thanks in advance. Tata -- Linux Registered User #383849 http://kngphil.proboards58.com/ http://atats.blogspot.com/ http://sedemdbs.blogspot.com/

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Folding old site into Drupal structure
by Tenant 17 May '08

17 May '08

We run our own server (Debian) with many virtual domains. For many of the newer sites using Drupal, we've followed the protocol of installing Drupal -- in /home/drupal/public_html -- with each site getting it's own directory in /home/drupal/public_html/sites/mysite.com. For all modules and themes we install in /home/drupal/public_html/sites/all/modules (or themes) and that works very well. Works very well as long as we point mysite.com to /home/drupal/public_html in Apache vhosts.conf. All this certainly takes a load-off from reinstalling updates in each domain. However we have a few domains that are quite old (mid-90's) and have extensive hierarchy of static files. We would like to upgrade those sites to Drupal over time. So here's the question... I could overlay Drupal in /home/old-site/public_html, then use Front Page to keep the old site look & feel and even use menus to point to older pages and use this setup while -- over time -- we would convert old material to Drupal pages. And vhosts.conf would stay as it is for that domain. But doing so would require doing twice the number of core/module/theme upgrades, a pain I'd rather avoid. Alternatively, could I install all the old site content files under /home/drupal/public_html/sites/mysite.com - and then change vhosts and get the benefit of single upgrades? Or (third option) could I use symbolic links under /sites/mysite.com that link to the old site files and directories? Are there other ways to approach this dilemma? Thanks for any thoughts on this. Jeremy

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Folding old site into Drupal structure
by Tenant 17 May '08

17 May '08

Perhaps I didn't articulate the question properly. But one can serve site files from /home/drupal/public_html/sites/mysite.com/ I've used http://mysite.com/sites/mysite.com/ for files under: /home/drupal/public_html/sites/mysite.com/ and the files are accessible. I have a files subdirectory for images and the like, but other subdirectories are also accessible. Now the files directory has a .htaccess file for security, but I never though about putting .htaccess under home/drupal/public_html/sites/mysite.com/ I suppose I could but don't have anything sensitive there. (thoughts on this are welcome). What I'm really looking for is to find the best way to fold an old existing site (many static files) into the Drupal multi-site heirarchy. Should I move the site over to /home/drupal/public_html/sites/mysite.com/ and put everything under the files directory? Or should I keep the existing old site at /home/mysite.com/public_html and fold Drupal in over the old site? That would create a separate Drupal installation which would require additional upgrades. My apologies if I'm not making this clear. At 03:50 PM 5/17/2008, you wrote: >I don't fully understand how you want it to work, but when Drupal >looks at sites/sitename it only expects to find a settings.php file >containing a database url. It will serve no site files from there. >> > We run our own server (Debian) with many virtual domains. For many of >> > the newer sites using Drupal, we've followed the protocol of >> > installing Drupal -- in /home/drupal/public_html -- with each site >> > getting it's own directory in /home/drupal/public_html/sites/mysite.com. >> > >> > For all modules and themes we install in >> > /home/drupal/public_html/sites/all/modules (or themes) and that works >> > very well. >> > >> > Works very well as long as we point mysite.com to >> > /home/drupal/public_html in Apache vhosts.conf. All this certainly >> > takes a load-off from reinstalling updates in each domain. >> > >> > However we have a few domains that are quite old (mid-90's) and have >> > extensive hierarchy of static files. We would like to upgrade those >> > sites to Drupal over time. So here's the question... >> > >> > I could overlay Drupal in /home/old-site/public_html, then use Front >> > Page to keep the old site look & feel and even use menus to point to >> > older pages and use this setup while -- over time -- we would convert >> > old material to Drupal pages. And vhosts.conf would stay as it is for >> > that domain. >> > >> > But doing so would require doing twice the number of >> > core/module/theme upgrades, a pain I'd rather avoid. >> > >> > Alternatively, could I install all the old site content files under >> > /home/drupal/public_html/sites/mysite.com - and then change vhosts >> > and get the benefit of single upgrades? >> > >> > Or (third option) could I use symbolic links under /sites/mysite.com >> > that link to the old site files and directories?

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(noob) non-front /node page?
by Hans Henderson 17 May '08

17 May '08

I've posted to the post-install forum without result; perhaps my post is just too long, or I shouldn't ask multiple questions in a single post? http://drupal.org/node/258969 So here I'll just ask one at a time, but you can respond either here or in a comment there. I see that /node/ acts by default as the "front page" using the promote option. Can "promote" be set to send the items elsewhere, leaving /node/ available for me to use for my /news/ path? Thanks in advance.

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How to Redirect a .com to a .org?
by crocodyl＠corpwatch.org 17 May '08

17 May '08

Hi, I am wondering if anyone could direct me to a tutorial that illustrates how to get a example.com to redirect to an example.org. Can this be done from within Drupal by editing a file? I have edited the httaccess file before so that example.org redirects to www.example.org and my gut tells me that I could do the same to redirect from example.com and www.example.com to www.example.org as well. I just don't know what code to put in there. Any links on how to do this are greatly appreciated. crocodyl

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Encoding issues again
by Edward Peters 16 May '08

16 May '08

Many thanks to those who responded to me earlier. I have looked further into this, but I still have a problem. In the locales_target table, the French for February is stored as fÃ©vrier, but if I put the French word for February (février) into the database in a node (marked as French), it is stored as février not as fÃ©vrier. Can anyone shed any light on this? Many thanks indeed. Edward Peters Oxford, UK www.drupalproject.iofc.org

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Manage all subscriptions
by Walter Garcia-Fontes 15 May '08

15 May '08

I have installed the subscription module and for the heck of me I can't find any admin place to list and manage all subscriptions, short of going user by user and checking them. Does anybody know where I can see all subscriptions, like it can be done in the newsletter module for instance? TIA, -- Walter Garcia-Fontes Barcelona

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Default select item in a select list from cck
by Davide Michel 'ZioBudda' Morelli 15 May '08

15 May '08

Hi all. I have select widget (cck) and I get the array with values from a function. How can I define the "selected select item" ? in a normal form I use the default_value, but in a form with cck ? 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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