By jnhemley on
I set up OpenPublish 7 with no problem from the distribution. However, I found the OpenPublish 7 did not include some features that I needed that were in OP6. Is there a distribution for OP6 ? I couldn't find one. I set up Drupal 6. Then I tried to set up OP6 as a module. I got multiple errors for call to undefined function add_role. I don't see suggestions on how to fix this. What should I do ?
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It is not clear why 6 is not
It is not clear why 6 is not available for download but maybe because there was not stable release only a dev release. You could ask the publishers for a copy of the legacy code. Even if they give it to you, it might be more trouble than it is worth. After all being a dev release you can expect some bugs in the code and you probably will be on your own for sorting them out.
Anyway a profile is still only the starting point for your own customisations, rather than tool which should do everything you want out of the box. My advice would be delete your current setup, make a clean reinstall of the current version, then add the extra features which you are missing yourself.
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If it's an installation profile/distrobution how did you try to install it as a module?
OP6 Distribution
I asked if there is a distribution. I don't think there is for 6. I installed 6 and then added OP6 as a module as I said. I had a problem when tried to save the module setup with Open Publish Core.
I have never seen a release
I have never seen a release of Open Publish as a module, only as a distribution. I do not believe it exists as a module on drupal.org? If you take a distribution and mistakenly think it is a module and try to install it as a module you will certainly break the site.
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Distribution
That's maybe good to hear. Open Publish 7 was easy to install as a distribution. The instructions were very clear. Do you know where I can find instructions on how to install 6 as as distribution ?
Open Publish for Drupal 6
Open Publish for Drupal 6 seems to be nowhere available to download, so unless someone (ie. the author!) gives to you privately, it is impossible. I imagine the authors took it offline for a good reason, so might not want to give you a copy.
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What do you mean by this comment ?
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I thought I had found the D6 version in view all releases but it wasn't and I removed the link.
OP6
This is a link to an OP6 release. Is there anything wrong with this ?
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what link?
Link
http://drupal.org/node/323905/release?api_version[]=87
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That's the same one I had looked at but it does not look to me like it's a complete package. it hasn't been rolled since 2010 either. I wouldn't use it. However at this point in time I wouldn't be doing anything in D6 as it will unsupported when D8 is released which isn't all that far away.
OP6
The problem is that OP6 has a critical feature that OP7 doesn't have so I have to use OP6.
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What is this feature that you're willing to trade support and security for by working with an unmaintained branch of the project on D6?
Perhaps your discussion is better suited for: http://groups.drupal.org/openpublish as indicated by the OP project page.
Feature
OP6 allows you to take a feed and automatically create an article. Correct me if I'm wrong but OP7 does not.
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can be accomplished by utilzing the feeds.module which is listed as included in the D7 distro
Feeds
That's definitely preferable but where can I find documentation on how to set that up ?
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I'd start with the feeds.module documentation linked to the feeds.module project page.