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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.

Save content and open a new create content form at same time

drupal save and create new post

Agaric was all set to make a new module called "Form Alter" to store this and all sorts of other fun, but thanks to a helpful response by Jenni S. to this post:

Save content, then create new, in one click?
http://drupal.org/node/153129

The solution already exists, with more options:

http://drupal.org/project/nodegoto

Wordpress Sites to Convert to Drupal 5

Drak.net is on the PHP5 bandwagon, and we have another incentive to convert our (well, my) wordpress sites... by Memorial Day:

  • CockrillCorp.com (we can charge a couple hundred)
  • ShadowAppys.com (Cathy- also a paying client who still owes and will pay a couple hundred)
  • ReedLindsay.com (same deal, he wants to pay for an upgrade anyway)
  • DemCC.com (my brother, total deadbeat, but hey...)
  • ???

Drak.net is on the PHP5 bandwagon, and we have another incentive to convert our (well, my) wordpress sites... by Memorial Day:

  • CockrillCorp.com (we can charge a couple hundred)
  • ShadowAppys.com (Cathy- also a paying client who still owes and will pay a couple hundred)
  • ReedLindsay.com (same deal, he wants to pay for an upgrade anyway)
  • DemCC.com (my brother, total deadbeat, but hey...)
  • ???

Anjali's Web Site Plans

Excitement!

anjfp: my new job is awesome, new masters program is great, taking a break from competition for a couple weeks, things are good
I3IVIIVI: Yay!!
I3IVIIVI: So let's get a web site rolling...
anjfp: i was actually going to email you as my travels and meeting other athletes and things have given me a better idea of things for an athlete website
anjfp: yes lets do it
anjfp: im so excited
anjfp: you have no idea

Excitement!

anjfp: my new job is awesome, new masters program is great, taking a break from competition for a couple weeks, things are good
I3IVIIVI: Yay!!
I3IVIIVI: So let's get a web site rolling...
anjfp: i was actually going to email you as my travels and meeting other athletes and things have given me a better idea of things for an athlete website
anjfp: yes lets do it
anjfp: im so excited
anjfp: you have no idea

URL and Purpose, functionality

anjfp: so i do want to get www.anjaliforberpratt.com or somethign to that effect if we can
anjfp: the sooner i know what the domain name/address will be the better, in that i am working on putting together an athlete portfolio to try and round up sponsorship, so if i can say oh and this will be my website, though its under construction right now, or something that that it would be stellar

Amazing Things Zing Auction implementation detail fixes

Can anyone figure out why Category module is listing images associated with items (even though the images aren't in the category themselves)?

category module listing images
category module listing attached images of nodes drupal

Very, very strange. If you just click on the image node and edit it and save it, without changing anything, it stops being listed.

If you unpublish the image node, of course, you also get rid of it-- and can still see it in the picture.

But if you click

Get the value of a single associative array element

split array into key and value

I want to do what foreach does, but without the iteration, because I know I only have one value.

Oh, maybe each()?

Side note: It appears that Drupal coding standards (at least several examples in core) call for a lowercase, not capitalized, "as" in

foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
  ...
}

I ended up using <code>$key = key($single_element_assoc_array);

And then getting the value with $value = $single_element_assoc_array[$key];

split array into key and value

I want to do what foreach does, but without the iteration, because I know I only have one value.

Oh, maybe each()?

Side note: It appears that Drupal coding standards (at least several examples in core) call for a lowercase, not capitalized, "as" in

foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
  ...
}

I ended up using <code>$key = key($single_element_assoc_array);

And then getting the value with $value = $single_element_assoc_array[$key];

Icon changing and editing in Mac OS X

You cannot drag and drop the icon to create it in Mac OS X Tiger

You have to click the upper representation of the icon in the "Get Info" pane and select Copy from the Edit menu (control click doesn't get you anything, either)

http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/

for designing icons and anything else, see:

Domain Name Server caching on personal computers

Perusing Yahoo's rules for speeding up your web site, I came across the explanation to an interesting phenomenon.

On Dan's computer, it can take hours after the DNS resolves on our ISP, for his computer to recognize it! (I have to out my co-collective member at Agaric: He still uses Microsoft Windows.)

Yahoo explains:

Agaric Wants a way to replace a directory, have SVN just deal

So we're moving a client's site from a server that only had FTP, and find out the download wasn't complete after we already added the files to our SVN repository. So I thought, this is what Subversion does, right? You make local changes and it keeps track of them. Apparently, wrong. Not when it comes to replacing entire directories.

svn replace directory with another directory
.svn' containing working copy admin area is missing

So we're moving a client's site from a server that only had FTP, and find out the download wasn't complete after we already added the files to our SVN repository. So I thought, this is what Subversion does, right? You make local changes and it keeps track of them. Apparently, wrong. Not when it comes to replacing entire directories.

svn replace directory with another directory
.svn' containing working copy admin area is missing

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blockquote>If it is an option, I would recommend you do a new checkout and then just copy any files you had modified over the top of your new checkout.

Drupal Indymedia setup notes from Boston volunteer Developer

ekes' Hidden module for
hiding stories. Ekes is an Indymedia developer and involved with the
larger IMC Alternatives project. It's a pretty good module save for
one issue I'll explain in a second. Here's a quick rundown of all the
modules we're using though:

- Akismet
- Captcha
- CCK (along with calendar, date, link, imagefield, and email fields)
- Hidden
- Imagecache
- MySite (installed by not active)
- Notify
- Panels
- PathAuto
- Token
- Update Status
- Views

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blockquote>
ekes' Hidden module for
hiding stories. Ekes is an Indymedia developer and involved with the
larger IMC Alternatives project. It's a pretty good module save for
one issue I'll explain in a second. Here's a quick rundown of all the
modules we're using though:

  • Akismet
  • Captcha
  • CCK (along with calendar, date, link, imagefield, and email fields)
  • Hidden
  • Imagecache
  • MySite (installed by not active)
  • Notify
  • Panels
  • PathAuto
  • Token
  • Update Status
  • Views

I'm trying to keep things as close to out of the box as possible so
we're not locked into a heavily customized site that we can't keep

Views Exposed Filters and Range Filters Problems and Possible Solutions

First thing Agaric does of course is upgrade modules to their most recent version (Relativity 5.x-2.1 and Views 5.x-1.6). Fun, but no effect. Same return on clearing the views cache.

Two issues that seem related:

  • A relativity (parent node) filter and it doesn't seem to work.

First problem came up in the context of Views Fusion - http://drupal.org/node/147274

From my mentors own mouth: "indeed. There are a lot of problems with filters with views 1.6"

First thing Agaric does of course is upgrade modules to their most recent version (Relativity 5.x-2.1 and Views 5.x-1.6). Fun, but no effect. Same return on clearing the views cache.

Two issues that seem related:

  • A relativity (parent node) filter and it doesn't seem to work.

First problem came up in the context of Views Fusion - http://drupal.org/node/147274

From my mentors own mouth: "indeed. There are a lot of problems with filters with views 1.6"

But it applies to any view that you try to expose but uses an add_where command that works in the view but not accessed through a filter or like method. Fago provided a patch: http://drupal.org/node/150094