support May 2008

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Path trailing slash
by John Fletcher 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi, The recent discussion about ".html" at the end of paths reminded me... I've been wondering about the reason why a trailing slash is not allowed in aliases created by the Path module. Sometimes when I land on a page deep in a website, I want to see more of what the website is about. So I go up a few folders manually... eg. I read www.example.com/articles/internet/whyinternetisgood.html, then I manually enter the following into the URL: www.example.com/articles/ in order to see the index page containing all the articles. This reflects the basic function of HTML/HTTP. Obviously Drupal doesn't work like that, under Drupal you would probably need to go to www.example.com/articles. I wouldn't mind being able to mimic the traditional functionality for users like myself that do "manual navigation". Any thoughts?

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Image queries
by Stuart Lawler 04 May '08

04 May '08

Dear all, I think these are probably very simple questions, but I'm relatively new to Drupal and am totally blind, hence my asking for some help here. I am developing a basic website for a small organisation in Ireland. My questions are, 1. What steps to I take to replace the default Drupal logo or image with that of the organisation? The image is a Jpeg file and I'm using the default Garland theme. 2. It would appear, from my viewing the default image within the site, that it appears as a link. How can I stop it appearing as a link? 3. Finally, how can I add some alt text to the image so that it will have a proper description for people who can't access graphics? Any assistance is very gratefully received. Kind regards, Stuart Lawler.

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Session problems
by Daniel Carrera 02 May '08

02 May '08

Hello, One of the clients using my site is complaining about the following problem: "During a class, my students registered and logged onto their community accounts. When they started to explore it and look at the 'Buddies' section, the website seemed to show them a buddy list from a random student, not their own." This is the "Buddies" plugin, running on Drupal 4.7. I first suggested that the previous pupil had not logged out properly, but the teacher confirmed that this wasn't the cause. This was the very first time that the students were logging into the system. Does anyone know what the problem might be? Thanks.

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Encoding problems
by Edward Peters 02 May '08

02 May '08

Many thanks to all those who responded to my query. I think setting the DB default to UTF8 is the solution. Edward Peters Oxford, UK www.drupalproject.iofc.org

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upload : overwriting files
by pyg 02 May '08

02 May '08

Hello Drupalers ! Simple question, but search & google didn't helped me : is it possible for a user to overwrite an upload file ? I tried to : 1. upload foo.txt (then submit) 2. delete foo.txt (then submit) 3. upload foo.txt (then submit) but on the third step, file is named "foo_0.txt" My users just want to update some pdf files wich public adress is widely distributed. Any clue on this ? Thanks. Pierre-Yves

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Getting rid of ".html" suffix in URL?
by Roy Smith 02 May '08

02 May '08

I gave a URL for a page on my site (http://hyc.org/directions/car) to somebody to publish in their newsletter. They apparently decided they knew better, and "corrected" the URL to have a ".html" on the end, i.e. published "http://hyc.org/directions/car.html". Now they call me up saying their members can't get to our web site. Is there any way to make drupal treat the .html URL as an alias for the correct one? More generally, is there a way to make it do so for *all* URLs that end in .html? -- roy(a)panix.com

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Re: [support] Encoding problems (Ivan Sergio Borgonovo)
by Cog Rusty 01 May '08

01 May '08

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Joe Murray <joe.murray(a)jmaconsulting.biz> wrote: > My default Drupal installs end up having latin1 as the character type in the > MySQL tables, unlike CiviCRM default installs that end up with utf8 charset > and utf8_unicode_ci as the collation. Might want to look at that as one > possible issue. > > Joe I think this happens when the default character set of the database is latin1 and some modules don't specify any character set when installing tables. So, whenever I create a new Drupal database I always go to phpMyAdmin-->Operations and make sure to set the charset/collation of the database to utf8/utf8_general_ci. > > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:05:24 +0100 > > "Edward Peters" <edward.peters(a)uk.iofc.org> wrote: > > > > > I have special characters that need to go in a node title and into > > > CCK fields, but by default they do not display correctly. Can > > > anyone point me towards a solution which allows Unicode characters > > > in titles and CCK fields? Many thanks for our help! > > > > I've no problems with unicode chars and I didn't do any special setup. > > FAPI did all the magic. > > Can it be a client side problem? > > > > BTW if you're dealing with MS stuff in any way consider that they > > call UTF-18 Unicode, while Drupals works great with UTF-8. > > > > -- > > Ivan Sergio Borgonovo > > http://www.webthatworks.it > > -- > [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] >

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Re: [support] Encoding problems
by Cog Rusty 01 May '08

01 May '08

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Edward Peters <edward.peters(a)uk.iofc.org> wrote: > > > > > I have special characters that need to go in a node title and into CCK > fields, but by default they do not display correctly. Can anyone point me > towards a solution which allows Unicode characters in titles and CCK fields? > Many thanks for our help! > I have no problem at all with utf8 Greek on whole sites. Even when I was using MySQL versions older than 4.1 (with no native Unicode support) Drupal was doing a very good job of handling utf8. Check whether your database as well as the individual tables are utf8 and not latin1 (you wouldn't have noticed any difference with only English characters). > > Edward Peters > > Oxford, UK > > www.drupalproject.iofc.org > > > -- > [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] >

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