November 2010 - support - lists.drupal.org

Question re using Taxonomy
by prothero 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Sorry for the multiple questions. As a newbie, I'm trying to get perspective on how to approach several goals. I want to set up my content so I can select from different categories, that I set up in the taxonomy. BTW, I love that feature. I'd like to get a short list (like the blogs listing) of all sites that fit a particular keyword, and have a way of clicking to read the entire story, blog, or page. I haven't experimented with Views yet, but wonder if that module can give me what I want. Comment re Drupal and my Newbie experience: I've found that overview material is very hard to get for Drupal. I've got Drupal for Dummies and Pro Drupal Development. They are very good on what they cover. On the Drupal and RocketTheme sites, I find that there is very sketchy "how to" tutorials, with stuff missing that you have to find in the FAQ. Then, there are the very detailed developer oriented explanations. The intermediate level docs, that may say something like: "What this module does is..... take images from xyz folder, puts them into xxxx, and this process is controlled in .... css or php file." That way somebody who knows a bit of code and css can more easily get into the system. I've wasted literally weeks fiddling with every module and it is frustrating. Thanks for you help, Bill William A. Prothero http://earthednet.org/

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Info about uploaded files
by prothero 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Hi. I'm using SolarSentinal and Drupal 6.19. http://es.earthednet.org What I'm wondering is the best place to put user uploaded files. Currently, I have specified the /sites/default/files folder. This is the setting in the administer->file system configuration. The temporary directory is set to tmp. So, when users, who is allowed to create new content and upload images are active, do I get a folder with a bazillion images in it? Is there a way of cleaning house? I notice that duplicate images get a suffix that keeps filenames from being duplicated. It seems odd that the uploaded images from the entire site would all end up in a single folder. Perspective would be much appreciated. Regards, Bill What happens if William A. Prothero http://earthednet.org/

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create forms tabs
by ceooph+drupallist＠gmail.com 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Hi list, I find a solution to create tabs in a form. I use php code to create forms (4 forms). So I have from1_form and form1_form_submit, form2_form and form2_form_submit, ..... How can I tabs them into 1 block ? I find this, but there is nothing more simplest ? http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/simple-tabs-w-css-jquery/ Thanks a lot for your help.

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Getting Chinese Characters to display in Drupal 6
by Nick Young 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

I've got a Drupal 6 site that is 90% english content, but there's a set of pages that need to be able to display Chinese characters (both as the title and inside the node). I've checked, and changed the node and node_revisions db tables to ensure that they are set to utf8_general_ci, but that didn't seem to make any difference. After typing in the characters sand saving the node, it converts them to ?????. Can anyone help, or point me in the right direction to get these characters to save and display correctly? Thanks in advance for any help anyone might offer. -Nick *...........................................................* *Nick Young* Outreach, Communications & Consulting Office of Information Technology North Carolina State University Web: oitdesign.ncsu.edu ...........................................................

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Rewriting Views URLs
by DTH 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

I have a view that takes the forms: view/foo/bar - all nodes with category foo and subcategory bar view/baz - all nodes with category baz etc However, I'd like the view to exist at foo/bar/view baz/view etc Assuming there's hundreds of urls, so creating url aliases for each one is out, is the only way to do this via htaccess and rewriting view/[a-z]/[a-z] or is there a more Drupally/easier way?

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advanced forum: topics/posts not counted correctly...
by Jarry 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Hi, I have found this strange thing: for *some* users, *some* forum topics/posts are not counted correctly. More exactly, number of topics/posts is 2x higher than it should be. For example, the main forum page (www.mysite/forum) which lists all containers and forums says www.mysite/forum/4 has 2 topics and 2 posts. When I enter that page www.mysite/forum/4 I see there is only 1 topic with 1 post. This happens for every forum, where user ever wrote at least one topic or comment. For forums where he never wrote any topic/comment, numbers are shown correctly. What could be reason for this strange behaviour? Jarry -- _______________________________________________________________ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.

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Multimedia
by joey rambish 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

I want to know all about it....

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Audio Solutions
by Ryan LeTulle 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

I am researching a band website right now and I can't seem to find any mature modules or solutions. Has anyone on the list come across anything I haven't? I've looked into audio, jquery media etc. Seem like I could get it to work but not very elegantly and the jquery media seems like overkill. I am thinking about rolling my own solution. Ryan LeTulle bayousoft.com <http://www.bayousoft.com> twitter.com/bayousoft <http://www.twitter.com/bayousoft>

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Trouble getting dRokStories to work
by prothero 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

Folks: I'm trying to get dRokStories to work. The images show up (sort of), but the story summaries don't. I followed the instructions in the tutorial, but.. no dice. Could anyone take a look at my site and give me an idea of how to proceed? http://es.earthednet.org Thanks, Bill William A. Prothero http://earthednet.org/

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D6 form submit (not), cache, double redirect back and reload from cache?
by Doug 23 Nov '10

23 Nov '10

Writing a D6 module. I'm trying to build a lengthy form, where at some point, towards the bottom of the form, it would be nice to (1) optionally hit an 'incomplete'/branch submit handler, (2) cache the interim curent form state, (3) double redirect to a new form (create submit ) etc (4) bounce back to the original (with second redirect), (5) reload interim state from the cache, (6) amend with new details gleaned from the intermediate/branch form, (7) finally proceed to the "complete" form submit handler of original form Currently I can double redirect to a second form, but on bounce back, all the original details are lost, which is really unintuitive to the user, who thinks they've already filled out that part. I guess I need to do something like this: function mymodule_interim_submit($form, &$form_state) { $form_build_id = $form_state['values]['form_build_id']; unset($form_state['submitted']); unset($form_state['storage']); // $form_state['rebuild'] = FALSE; $form_state['saved']= $form_state['values]; $form_state['redirect'] = array ( // double redirect 'mymodule/intermediate_form', 'mymodule/this_form/' . $form_build_id ); } But I don't know if thats sufficient to preserve the interim state of the form, or will it still be deleted from the cache after the interim_submit completes, or ...(barking up wrong tree)? thanks Doug

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