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Consumer review site
by Taymour A. El Erian 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Hi, I have searched the forums for this but can't find a definitive answer so am relying on you guys to help. I want to create a products review site similar to http://www.reviewcentre.com/ using drupal and am not sure if it is the right portal to use. I have installed D6 and fiddled with it for a while (added some modules, like nice menus) but am not sure if I can get the functionality. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you. -- *Taymour*

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htaccess woes
by Jo Morecroft 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

> > I have recently launched a new site and want to do 301 redirects from > the old pages to the new. So i am adding extra lines to the drupal > htaccess file. > > But if i add > > redirect 301 /acatalog/index.html > http://www.newdomain.co.uk/rannochsmokery/index.php > redirect 301 /acatalog/Smoked_Duck_Breast.html > http://www.newdomain.co.uk/rannochsmokery/smoked-meats-c-15.html > > at the bottom of htacess all subsequent visits via a browser to any > existing page on the site results in google saying "oops, that page > doesnt exsist" - if i remove the 301s all pages are found > > What am i doing wrong in my htaccess please

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Understanding how a theme 'works'
by Roger 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

I don't know if anyone can help me but I am in a big problem understanding how a theme works in Drupal6.19 I'm using Marinelli - Giordani to create a site www.drupal.eckankar.org.au. It's roughly ok but has problems I do not understand. The member's login is way off the bottom of the content wrapper. I found the <div class that handles it but cannot successfully reposition the components. I need the quote slide show to appear top right corner of the page, nit in the content, but if I use the blocks to relocate it it disappears. Also the designers have put a wide variety of .contentblocks to be all things to all people however it prohibits me from relocating some of the menu components which are in the .rsidebar and .lsidebar Basically I need all the output to appear in the .wrapper. if you go to the site and click on an underlined date in the calendar you can see what I mean. Another nagging issue is that in on Apple Mac the whole page is wrecked, it does not zoom. The logo goes up and left. It is position:relative to #page which does not alter in position or dimension. I do not know if I'm even explaining the problem right, it's very confusing as there seems to be overrides from the system and the Marinelli theme systems that I cannot find using Firebug. thanks in advance Roger

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Re: [support] support Digest, Vol 95, Issue 60
by Roger 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

Roger, > I've used Marinelli on a few sites and have been really happy with the > css. I think some things have been altered in your theme's css that has > made everything go askew. Here are a few things I found that made > significant improvements to the layout: > > 1. The<div class="eksymbol"> that I believe you must have added has > shifted everything to the right 130px. I would get rid of that and put > it in a different way, like as a logo. > > 2. In both #submenu and #wrapper, remove the left:130px and left:145px > > 3. In ul. links, remove width:970px > > Hope that's helpful! > > Michelle > Hi Michelle and Christopher Thank you so much for your replies. I thought about the problem after rereading your messages and decided to use the straight marinelli theme, not a sub theme, then just add the ek-logo with a large negative z-index which for some reason seems to work. The marinelli theme seems to have fixed the problems I was unknowingly building in. Roger

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Re: [support] support Digest, Vol 95, Issue 60
by Roger 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

On 25/11/10 02:11, support-request(a)drupal.org wrote: > 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 Yes I have the same problem and would like to know how to do this also. I need to have some pages in Russian and Tibetan on our English site Thanks in advance Roger

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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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