February 2009 - support - lists.drupal.org

Users without email addresses?
by Daniel Carrera 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hello, I have an unusual problem: We provide a service for schools. Students make Drupal accounts and use it to do a school project. Problem is, many students don't have email and indeed, the school doesn't *want* the students to have email. Worse, they want the teacher to create the student accounts. I don't like this, yes it's stupid, but there is no chance of me changing their mind about this. I'm hoping that someone here might help me find a good solution for this problem. As part of the service, we have a custom web application that I wrote. This application already has a record of all the students and teachers and schools. So, for example, I could consider using this application to insert new users into the Drupal database. The teacher clicks a button that says "make Drupal accounts for all my students" and a PHP script makes the accounts. Could that work? Personally, I am afraid of editing the Drupal database directly, but perhaps there is a safe API I can use? Or is it reasonably safe to insert records into the Drupal database by hand? I can see problems with this idea (e.g. what do I use as user names? Student names are not unique). But I can't think of anything better. Does anyone have a better idea? I don't really know any good way to solve this problem. The problem is not urgent. For the time being we can get a staff member with admin access to create student accounts using fake email addresses. But I hope to find a better long-term solution. Thanks for the help. Daniel.

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menu item issues
by Mohammad Towfiqul Islam 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Hi guys, I am a newbie. Need some instruction. I have a five primary liks and each links has several childs (say 8/9). What I want, when I will click primary links suppose "Home" it will open a specific page linked to Home with its childs. It should not show other primary links child in a page linked to "Home". Like this when I will click other primary links it will open that primary links page with childs. What I mean every primary links child should be seperated when i click links. It should not show all. How can I achieve this? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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actions_assignments table error
by Ryan Thomson 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Hey all I have an error in my database which is screwing with my ability to export it. My actions_assignments table is giving me this error: #1033 - Incorrect information in files: '.\*****\actions_assignment.frm' Does anyone know what I can do to fix this? If it's the actions module that created this can I disable it, run update.php then delete the table and re-enable the module or soemthing? Thanks! Leet

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Localizing a template
by Francesco Baldini 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Hi, I did an Italian language website, I need now to provide it a multi language system, the only issue is that I need to change something in the main page.tpl.php for both languages. I see there're many translation modules but I need something able to change my page.tpl.php from the regular one to the english one (eg: page-it.tpl.php and page-en.tpl.php) as well other than regular text. Something like "localizing a template" Do you have any tips about it? Drupal version is 5.x thanks

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Can't login
by A-NO-NE Music 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Drupal 6.8 I am having a weird problem. All the sudden I can't login to my local dev site. The production site is fine. I backup MySQL data from the production site, and when I login to local dev site, the site flashes and do nothing. when I go example.com/user and login, I get access denied error. This is true to my admin account and a few other test accounts I created. I truncated all the cache tables before backing up. I went admin/config/perfrmance and clear the cache before backing up. Any suggestion would be appreciated. I have been doing for a long while, and never encountered this problem before. I can't think of anything that has changed. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com

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Re: [support] Can't login
by Pam Caymol 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

im so lost , lol > From: VJ <vijaiprao(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [support] Can't login > To: support(a)drupal.org > Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 4:52 AM > Are you hosting the dev site on a > different server? > I have seen this error when some hosts upgrade > to php 5 > If so, adding register_shutdown_function('session_write_close'); > at the end of settings.php works > > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at > 11:30 PM, A-NO-NE Music <madflute(a)anonemusic.com> > wrote: > > Drupal > 6.8 > > > > I am having a weird problem. All the sudden I can't > login to my local > > dev site. The production site is fine. > > > > I backup MySQL data from the production site, and > > when I login to local dev site, the site > flashes and do nothing. > > when I go example.com/user and > login, I get access denied error. > > This is true to my admin account and a few other test > accounts I > > created. I truncated all the cache tables before backing > up. I went > > admin/config/perfrmance and clear the cache before backing > up. > > > > Any suggestion would be appreciated. I have been doing for > a long > > while, and never encountered this problem before. I > can't think of > > anything that has changed. > > > > > > -- > > - Hiro > > > > Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston > > http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com > > > > -- > > [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ > ] > > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > -- > [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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Panels and Views
by Gerald Langiewicz 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

I am stuck here and a little nudge in the right direction would be appreciated. I'm using Drupal 6.9 and Panels 2 for display a list of classes and based on which class is selected of the left panel, I want to display detailed information on the right panel. Those items of the right panel are the fields of a view for a particular node. The left panel is easy to do and the information on the right panel is too. What I need to do is bridge between the two so if I click "Lewiston" I get the information for that course. Thanks for the nudge gerald

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Project management website
by Richard Wilding 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

Hi All, I'm new to Drupal and this mailing list. I'm a front-end designer and have been asked by an architect to 're- skin' a Google Sites project he has set up to share project images, plans and to-do lists with one of his clients Google Sites does not allow access to their html / css templates for me to change the page structure and styles, so I'm looking for another platform I've looked at project management / collaboration platforms like Basecamp and Huddle, but they seem too complex and I really want a simple interface with just the features my client needs Is Drupal suitable for this or is there another platform that I should investigate? Here is a summary of the most important features required: 1. Restricted access with multiple user accounts 2. Display text, images, .pdfs and videos within the website pages 3. Zoom or enlarge images and .pdfs to view details in drawings & .pdf spreadsheets 4. Include tables of information with column ordering i.e team contact list 5. Include savable checklists 6. Page templates need to be customizable through html and css Thanks and best wishes, Richard Wilding

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in response to Re: Project management website (Victor Kane)
by James Stone 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

Has anyone seen and/or used the pdf2swf tool? I think it works ok for viewing pdf's. Otherwise I did read about a particularly complicated way to utilize pdf's through the use of the Zend framework.just my 2cents, fndtn357

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Clarification on Latest Security Upgrade
by Shai Gluskin 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Gang, I'm a bit confused by the wording regarding the latest security upgrade to core. Usually these announcements are pretty explicit about what situations make you vulnerable and which situations are not vulnerable. It would seem, by deduction, that a Drupal install running an any server software other than Windows is *not *vulnerable. Can someone verify that? I'll certainly upgrade my sites, given how many bug fixes are also included... but I'd like a better handle on the urgency of things. Shai

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