April 2009 - support - lists.drupal.org

Displaying drop down based on value selected in another drop down in drupal 6
by ram prasath 19 Apr '09

19 Apr '09

HI, I want to display a drop down which contain country after I choose 1 country in my drop down and my next drop down ill got displayed which one will contain states name ,after I selected a state I want to display another drop down with cities name CAN ANY 1 TEL ME HOW TO DO IT IN DRUPAL 6 THANKS IN ADVANCE FRIENDS. regards Ram Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/

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Best practices for simple dev/prod site mirroring or staging?
by Jubal 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

I have slowly been going insane trying to find a coherent way to set up a simple mirroring setup for a staging vs. production site. I am really hoping someone out there has solved this problem in a general way, and can tell me how I can improve my process. My requirements are: Content creators use the production site (let's say www.domain.com) for adding and editing stuff. I (as the developer) need to test modules and theme changes on a copy of the production site. In order to do so, I must have a relatively faithful snapshot of the production site at another hostname (let's say dev.domain.com) I am also using the same MySQL instance, so the production and development databases must use different names. So, I need to be able to mirror the drupal files AND database content FROM www.domain.com TO dev.domain.com. Obviously, some things in the database that are hardcoded with "www.domain.com" need to be changed to "dev.domain.com". I also need to change the dbsettings.php file, and perhaps any reference in the db dump to the database name itself. I've created a script that (1) dumps the production database, (2) effectively search-and-replaces any instance of "www.domain.com" to "dev.domain.com" in the database dump, (3) NUKES any cache tables, and (4) restores the much-reduced dump to the dev database. Also (5), copies over the modules and files directories in a safe manner. I'm now seeing generally weird behavior in the dev database. I'd really like to find out if there's a better way to do this. I am amenable to changing some fundamental things about my current approach. Thanks in advance, Jubal

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PHP custom code in drupal block / node
by Nikhil Kala 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

Hello All, This might be very easy question for some of you, I want to display database values into the php block / node How I can do this? Can I user normal php coding same in drupal block OR I need to do any extra steps for it. Warm Regards, Nikhil Kala http://www.nikhilkala.com

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CVS Questions
by Steve Kessler 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

I have never used a site that has been built using CVS before. I have inherited a site that was built using CVS. We don't have SSH set-up yet with the host but I want to make sure I am not going to mess anything up by adding a modules to the site that is not downloaded through CVS and then when we get SSH I can replace it that way. Thanks, Steve Steve Kessler Denver DataMan 303-587-4428 <http://www.denverdataman.com/content/enewsletter-signup> Sign up for the Denver DataMan Free eNewsletter

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Assigning Nodes To Panel Panes
by Steve Edwards 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

I'm working on a site that is going to be a content driven site with multiple contributors, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to give the editors control over the placement of content. We've created a basic panels page with nine panes that will be used on all pages. There will be a separate panel page with the same structure for the front page. There is a vocabulary (called Content for now) that will be used to tag all Article (a custom content type) nodes. The Content vocabulary has three top level terms, and then multiple terms under each of those. What we would like to do is use the panel page for each second level term, where the three top level terms will be drop down menus with the second level items as menu items. The content displayed in the panes would be for that second level term. So, for instance, one of my top level terms is Everyday, and I have three second level terms under it of Arts & Culture, Entertaining, and Family & Kids. On the front page, there would be an Everyday menu, and then Arts & Culture, Entertaining, and Family & Kids would be items on that menu. Each item would go to the panel page, where all of the content on the page would be Articles that are tagged with the appropriate second level term. The front page would be similar, but would use a nodequeue just for items on the front page. It's easy enough to create a view with an argument and pass that through the panel for the secondary pages. The tricky part is assigning the nodes to the different panes. For the front page, my initial idea was to create a nodequeue that would contain all the Article nodes I want to display on the front page. A suggestion was made that I could use one view with multiple displays, and each display would specify a nodequeue offset. I would then assign a different display to each pane. The problem with that, though, is that as newer items are added to the queue, the displayed nodes would move to different panes. For the secondary pages, I don't want to use nodequeues, because there are many categories, and that would be a lot of nodequeues. So with all that explained, what would be a good way to assign nodes to my various panes? I'm trying to do it in such a way that it's very easy for editors to select which nodes are to be displayed on the front page and secondary pages. I already have a view with Views Bulk Operations set up to assign to the Front Page queue and publish/unpublish, so if I can go that route, that would be good. Thanks. Steve

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help with panels, node overrides and context
by sebastian 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

Hello folks, Gotten further in my project, but now I feel like I have painted myself into a corner, and I hope someone can point me in the right direction. I've looked through all the panels documentation and tutorials, but I am stuck. I have one panel which has two columns: col1: list of node titles based on taxonomy term col2: list of node details based on taxonomy term When someone clicks on a node title or on a link in the node details, I want them to see another panel for the node, but in my case, this needs to be a node override. I have made the node override just fine with /node/% and it shows a panel just fine. Where I am stuck, is how to pass to the node override a second argument, so that I can still show a filtered list of node titles based on the taxonomy term of the node that was clicked. so, what my panel needs to show when node/% is clicked is: col1: list of ALL node titles based on taxonomy term of SELECTED node ID col2: the node view of just the current node ID I "think" I have to do something with the context setting, but the example I read on: http://drupal.org/node/213733 doesn't seem to be relevant to this task. I'm using Drupal 6 with panels 2 and the latest Views version. Any guidance for which settings I need to change where would be really appreciated. Thank you so much for your help!! Sebastian.

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Comments to email - Mailhandler hack!
by Rohan Smith 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

Is there a way I can have comments posted directly to email instead of on the page. WHY? I did a mailinglist to forum integration [using mailhandler and listmanager] but my client now says his mailing list has "moderation and translation" so he wants the forum posts/comments to first go through the mailing list before being posted to the site. Currently its the other way around, mailhandler posts the post/comment to the drupal site and then to the mailing list, but I dont want drupal to post to the site at all. All messages should pass through the mailing list. Drupal then at intervals retrieves these messages and posts them after moderation and translation. --- R.A.Smith Manager/Technical Lead Exterbox - "Thinking outside of the box" http://www.exterbox.com rohan(a)exterbox.com 1-876-449-7506

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User's page with different user name
by Francesco Baldini 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

Hi, I would like to change on mysite.com/user/username page title, I mean: instead of username, Organization Name because while username could be called as "apo" its 'Organization name' field is "Animal Protection Organization" so that mysite.com/user/apo will have "Animal Protection Organization" as title.. do you have any suggestions? thanks

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Change temp directory?
by Marolijo 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

Hello, I'm movin' a test website from xammp windows to a real Centos Server. When I activate Imagecache it launches an error ImageCache Temp Directory C:\xampp\tmp is not writeable by the webserver. How can I change this value? thank's

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Wacky Drupal Cache
by Shai Gluskin 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

The situation: 1. Anonymous user clicks on link to node/1234 (recently created) and gets "page not found" 2. Link works for logged in users. 3. Clear cache 4. Link now works for anonymous users 5. Note: there is* no* "page not found" error written to Watchdog This is on a D5 install. This makes no sense to me. Is Drupal caching the non-existence of pages? Isn't it supposed to work like this for anon users: URL is called, Drupal checks to see if there is a cached version. If there is, it gets the cached version, if not, it runs the queries and builds the page from scratch. Thanks for solving this mystery, Shai

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