This website is composed of information connected through taxonomy. It is simultaneously a proof-of-concept and a means to allow Agaric to share and store information both within the collective and the world as part of our open documentation philosophy.

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This website is composed of information connected through taxonomy. It is simultaneously a proof-of-concept and a means to allow Agaric to share and store information both within the collective and the world as part of our open documentation philosophy.

Drupal's weird occasional need to login twice

It's actually a persistent need to login twice, on occasional installs.

Of all our servers, including a number with this host (shared hosting), this is the only one with the problem.

PHP version 4.4.4
MySQL version 4.1.21-standard

Something that seems to fix this:

Comment out the URL path.

// $base_url = 'http://www.example.com/drupal'; // NO trailing slash!

This worked for one site on a multi-site install, testing now on a separate Drupal installation on the same account.

It's actually a persistent need to login twice, on occasional installs.

Of all our servers, including a number with this host (shared hosting), this is the only one with the problem.

PHP version 4.4.4
MySQL version 4.1.21-standard

Something that seems to fix this:

Comment out the URL path.

// $base_url = 'http://www.example.com/drupal'; // NO trailing slash!

This worked for one site on a multi-site install, testing now on a separate Drupal installation on the same account.

Theming CCK the Agaric Way

CCK is in constant development, so by the time I finish writing this, this advice will be obsolete.

Seriously, if you've been searching the internet for information on how to theme Drupal CCK nodes, you should probably stop, because at the time of this writing the best documentation with invaluable example files is in the module download itself: cck/theme

CCK is in constant development, so by the time I finish writing this, this advice will be obsolete.

Seriously, if you've been searching the internet for information on how to theme Drupal CCK nodes, you should probably stop, because at the time of this writing the best documentation with invaluable example files is in the module download itself: cck/theme

Wrapping text into columns: no reasonable automatic method

So over at Driscoll Associates "Where We Operate" modular home pages we wanted that long list of local Massachusetts counties and towns to wrap into columns.

It turns out there's not reasonable way to make them wrap:

http://alistapart.com/articles/multicolumnlists

Maybe CSS will get there soon.

So over at Driscoll Associates "Where We Operate" modular home pages we wanted that long list of local Massachusetts counties and towns to wrap into columns.

It turns out there's not reasonable way to make them wrap:

http://alistapart.com/articles/multicolumnlists

Maybe CSS will get there soon.

Why is this stupid grey line in my theme?

Is there an annoying grey line in your Drupal theme, #ccc in color and 1px thick? Just a little gray border of completely unknown origin, seemingly caused by your header table or your body content table?

Would you like it to go away? Are you trying to remove it from a bluemarine theme you want to customize?

Is the line beginning to drive you insane trying to get rid of it?

Have you run out of HTML elements and CSS selectors to override?

If you searched for "die #cccccc one pixel border line, die" then we can't imagine why else you're here.

Is there an annoying grey line in your Drupal theme, #ccc in color and 1px thick? Just a little gray border of completely unknown origin, seemingly caused by your header table or your body content table?

Would you like it to go away? Are you trying to remove it from a bluemarine theme you want to customize?

Is the line beginning to drive you insane trying to get rid of it?

Have you run out of HTML elements and CSS selectors to override?

If you searched for "die #cccccc one pixel border line, die" then we can't imagine why else you're here.

Where to put the files directory

This is probably my all-time favorite conversation from the Drupal Documentation e-mail list.

Updated by: CogRusty
Status: active

Personally I consider it /bad practice/ to place 'files' under
'/sites/example.com/files'. This is a sure way to make your file links
dependent on your current domain name.

What I consider relatively better practice for a multisite's files is
to place them under '/files/s1' where 's1' is a general short
identifying name of the site which you can reuse elsewhere.

This is probably my all-time favorite conversation from the Drupal Documentation e-mail list.

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Updated by: CogRusty
Status: active

Personally I consider it /bad practice/ to place 'files' under
'/sites/example.com/files'. This is a sure way to make your file links
dependent on your current domain name.

What I consider relatively better practice for a multisite's files is
to place them under '/files/s1' where 's1' is a general short
identifying name of the site which you can reuse elsewhere.

Agaric's ideal Version Control system

An SVN system to work locally in concert with Drupal CVS to make test sites and maintaining custom modules really easy.

An SVN system to work locally in concert with Drupal CVS to make test sites and maintaining custom modules really easy.

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  • Drupal core and contributed modules are kept up to date in example_test with cvs update (easy when the site has been set up with shell commands)
  • Share Tables Method

    Architecture of subdomains for different sections/departments sharing maximum number of tables
    http://drupal.org/node/54649

    consen - http://drupal.org/user/13462
    http://consen.org/

    Architecture of subdomains for different sections/departments sharing maximum number of tables
    http://drupal.org/node/54649

    consen - http://drupal.org/user/13462
    http://consen.org/

    We have the Editorial sections sharing the tables
    $db_prefix = array(
    'default' => 'EXTRA_',
    'users' => '',
    'sessions' => '',
    'role' => '',
    'authmap' => '',
    'sequences' => '',
    );
    and the Drupal files in the subdomain extra.mainsite.org

    This same we have done for the administration section
    admin.mainsite.org
    and for the Office section
    office.mainsite.org

    Asking for help

    http://dave.notik.com/contact

    Hello Dave,

    I'm going to be attempting to do pretty much exactly what you describe in "Drupal for my family" http://drupal.org/node/18023

    ...
    need this "single site with subsites with different blocks and themes" functionality.

    http://dave.notik.com/contact

    Hello Dave,

    I'm going to be attempting to do pretty much exactly what you describe in "Drupal for my family" http://drupal.org/node/18023

    ...
    need this "single site with subsites with different blocks and themes" functionality.

    If you've kept up with the various new options (multidomain: http://drupal.org/project/multidomain settings.php hardcoded themes, split databases, Organic Groups, where Sections is at...) and you want to take another crack at a multi-section site, we can definitely find some money to avoid evaluating all that ourselves.

    Themes to Consider as starting points: Drupal 5

    5.0 Themes

    Allegedly Foundation theme is also 5.0, and "the best starting place" according to someone at DrupalCampNYC...

    (+ means included in Agaric's site recipe generator)

    5.0 Themes

    Allegedly Foundation theme is also 5.0, and "the best starting place" according to someone at DrupalCampNYC...

    (+ means included in Agaric's site recipe generator)

    Consider:
    + http://drupal.org/project/aberdeen
    Liquid CSS layout (tableless)

    Modules to Use: Drupal 5

    Drupal 5 contributed modules as of 2007 January 29

    (+ means included in the default Agaric's site recipe creator)

    +image
    +http://drupal.org/project/image

    +imagecache
    http://drupal.org/project/imagecache

    Drupal 5 contributed modules as of 2007 January 29

    (+ means included in the default Agaric's site recipe creator)

    +image
    +http://drupal.org/project/image

    +imagecache
    http://drupal.org/project/imagecache

    +http://drupal.org/project/article