Drupal Development

getid3 library not found error...
http://drupal.org/node/120970

This really should be configurable in the module, but to work around this and put it (or make it appear) to be where it wants it--

(after aptitude install php-getid3)

cd /your/drupal_root/misc
sudo mkdir lib
sudo mkdir getid3
sudo ln -s /usr/share/php-getid3/ getid3

Resolution

Drupal 6 Views 2 has an offset modifier to the "Items to display" property which should make doing this dead simple; just create two displays of the same view with different settings for these two options.

Scroll way down for the resolution in Drupal 5:

Hat tip to:
http://drupal.org/node/131482

dan hak 3:45
featured view shows latest feature only
other one shows everything
all featured are in the everything vocab too

Getting Drupal to connect on MAMP

I had to use the host name instead of localhost, and to provide the non-standard port number.

host: Ebony-II.local
port: 8889

Note: the host name will be whatever your computer calls itself plus .local, you can get it exactly from MAMP's PHPMyAdmin under system variable settings or some such (a huge long list of settings, that is not the run-time settings one).

I changed a line in php.ini --

Potential client with some great goals:

Hey Benjamin!

Thanks for the chat the other day - I feel much better about things now!

Here's a little write-up of what I need/want Art Head to do. I've also attached [copied below] my original Civic Space proposal, which has a lot of detail about the goals, users, tasks, and all that rot.

Also, you can read Mission and Goals of the project here: http://indyarts.wikispaces.com/

Once some people get a little familiar with doing things with Drupal, it seems all further requests come as subsidiary requirements of the important thing: creating a menu item.

That's not really where I, as a web developer, want to come in on the conversation.

Someone tell me, am I making sense? What should I say?

More broadly: what should the relationship be, what should we as the alleged experts be asking our clients to do, in circumstances where their own inclination or financial situation is such that they need to do as much as possible themselves?

Solution: Updating to the latest nightly dev release of the module, from the 2007 November Beta, fixed it.

http://drupal.org/project/mass_contact

Back to the problem...

Mass contact module says:

cid = "2"

Inspired by Jody Hamilton's Drupal timesavers I updated and am sharing my Firefox wildcard-enhanced shortcuts to common Drupal-related founts of information. See Adam Ross's post for a file you can import.

Alan Frankel suggests this information begin with how to create a keyword shortcut in the first place:

(1) Go to "Bookmarks/Organize Bookmarks".

Next Generation Email list software, proposal by Jamie McClelland of May First People Link:
http://mayfirst.org/node/465
modular email

Amazingly optimistic and arrogant Agaric marketing:
http://agaricdesign.com/community-communication-integrated-forum-e-mail-list

Initial vision:

Unplugged

The Drupal synchronization module

The Drupal Synch module

• knows that when it last synched you are at node 253, user 43, comment 422, etc...

Logs, configuration settings, installed modules etc. could - should - be one way, from the server to your offline Drupal.

offline to server and back

Drupal 6 dumps the sequences table: implications?

Drupal 6 has the database handle sequences. This may make it harder for Unplugged to do its thing.

Not really though.

Search causes validation errors: how to disable caching for certain pages?

Not Boost!

Using search pages causes a validation error only when logged in.

It might be triggered by my consolidating the web pages onto one domain, and restricting the cookies to one domain slightly before that. When I looked at the code, the form token simply wasn't being produced-- the form element was a "" instead of a random alphanumeric string.