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adobeflex how to do in drupal

rajya lakshmi — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:49:04 +0000

how to use the adobe flex in drupal.
how to learn both combinations.

Wordpress comments

esarantopoulos — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:25:50 +0000

Does anyone have any experience in exporting ONLY comments from Wordpress to Drupal. I have a Wordpress site and I don't want to loose the comments people made, is there a way just to bring the COMMENTS in? Thank you.

Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted

tekila — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:50:09 +0000

When I tried to enable the views module I got the following error message:

"Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 443130 bytes) in /opt/lampp/htdocs/includes/database.mysqli.inc on line 303"

As am new to drupal, I don't know where to set the memory limit. Anybody who knows about this please give me a reply.

passing non-drupal session info

cbearhoney — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:19:10 +0000

I have a page outside of drupal that sets certain session variables. I want to be able to use this variable on the page.tpl.php but session data is reset. How can I do this?

Page with several columns

webjay — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:40:50 +0000

My current website www.webcom.dk is made in CakePHP. And I am in the process of converting it to Drupal.

My question is, what would you recommend for at page with several columns/boxes, like this one:
http://www.webcom.dk/services

I would prefer to be able to create a page and add as many columns to it as I like.

Thanks for your help.

Is it OK to Touch User Table and Profile Values outside of Drupal.

Hawkcode — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:20:13 +0000

Hi,

We are an association that has members, and the number of members is always going up and down. I need to write an external to Drupal php script that takes an export of our users and updates the User table and the coresponding profile fields.

Now I started doing this and from a programming point it's not a problem. Then I noticed this field data in the user table that seems to contain all the data in the users profile. The format is :
s:15:"a_paddress_2";s:13:"P.O. Box 4212";s:11:"aspe_pstate";

If I update or change the user / profile values table outside of Drupal will it screw anything up if I don't update this data field? Is there any documentation on this field and it's use?

I am just learning about writing modules so I don't have time to learn this before as I need to get this in place first.

Thanks,

Richard S Albrecht

All Profile Fields Not Showing under My Account - Also Read only possible?

Hawkcode — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:05:31 +0000

Hi,

We have a large number of profile fields, 35 and may add more.

What I noticed is not all the fields show when a user selects My Account. I have a field that shows when a membership (we are an association) expires. It is a date field. It does not show up when the user selects My Account. However if they select edit, it is there BUT it defaults to the current day - This is not good.

Also is there a way I can restrict a user and make some fields read only?

Thanks

--Richard S Albrecht--

SMF 1.1.9 to Drupal 6

TauTau — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:11:02 +0000

Hi,

I searched around a lot on that topic, and the only answer I could find is:

- convert from SMF to phpBB to Drupal. But you loose all User passwords.

is that really the only answer? Given that the SMF integration module seems to be rather unsupported at the moment, there is no way to go from SMF to drupal?

Possibly Moving from WordPress to Drupal

D.Vader — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:01:54 +0000

We have already had success pulling the data from WordPress to Drupal. I have a developer who is fairly well versed with the workings of Drupal but doesn't have as much experience with the modules so I am looking for some help here.

I was actually shocked at how many Modules Drupal Supports, which is why I am posting. There are quite a few to sift through and perhaps some of you could offer some advice.

We do a website about video games. One of the main reasons for moving away from WordPress is the support for media is lacking.

We are looking for a simple easy to use Screen Shot Gallery (Image Gallery) module. I would prefer a lightbox style one that offers multiple options for the viewable size. To keep it easy to use it would be great if I can just Upload Images to a Directory and the Module will populate the images into a gallery dynamically. Watermarking would be a great bonus.

Also does Drupal have any plugins that directly support video? Would it be a high definition solution? If not we have a space on YouTube and it would be fantastic if I could just feed it my YouTube username and perhaps have some discipline in my video naming so the Module could pick it up automatically.

Eliminating path from URLs when switching from a subdomain to the primary domain

kgm — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:27:13 +0000

There seem to be a huge number of posts on this subject - I think I've read them all, and I'm still unable to see why I can't get this to work.

My existing non-drupal site uses cPanel hosting and exists in /public_html. I've developed a drupal-based replacement site in /public_html/drupal and, during development, accessed it using the subdomain drupal.mysite.com with DocumentRoot set to /public_html/drupal. No problems. Now I want www.mysite.com to load the site from /public_html/drupal.

The ISP are unable/unwilling(?) to change DocumentRoot in httpd.conf so told me to update /public_html/.htaccess to include the following:

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mysite.com$ 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/drupal/ 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /drupal/$1 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mysite.com$ 
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ drupal/index.php [L]

This appears to cause any request that starts with www.mysite.com or mysite.com to be changed to be www.mysite.com/drupal. That works in that www.mysite.com now loads from /public_html/drupal, but all URLs are now of the form www.mysite.com/drupal/rest-of-url

Page Not Found Error -- Trying to run script from home directory

Knucklehead00 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:28:38 +0000

Hey all.

I have a script that I created that is moving data from tables that are already in the database to the proper Drupal tables. When I hit the script, I get a Drupal "Page Not Found" page. I believe the HTAccess is rewriting the linkage, but I am not 100% sure.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

how i can do this ?

sbeel1 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:37:11 +0000

hallo every body,

on my site the links like this

http://www.XXXXXXX.net/s2/node/203
http://www.XXXXXXX.net/s2/node/109
http://www.XXXXXXX.net/s2/node/51

in other - our drupal site example

http://drupal.org/project/
http://drupal.org/support/
http://drupal.org/talk/

i tryed with section model and others but not working

can any body help

404 errors after site migration to drupal

priceline — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:24:00 +0000

I have recently migrated one site to drupal 6.12 from static html. But lot of old site pages got indexed by search engines and and many links from referral sites.

I have gathered all the old files and appropriate new links on the site. But not sure how to re-direct from old page to new page.

I tried
301 /oldlink /newlink in .htaccess file, but seems like it is not working. I also left a message to my server admin, but i want to see if there is any drupal way of doing it. Thanks,

Edit: i noticed path_redirect module, which is working for me. I want to see if there is any easier way. I have over 50 re-redirects to configure.

editorial workflow

rama krishna — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:52:04 +0000

i requires a modules which supports that "one user (let u1) can give his permissions to another user (U2)when he is not available in the editorial work flow levels". so give me a solution.please as

Planning a move to Drupal from e107.

achtung — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:16:55 +0000

I'm planning on moving from e107 to drupal in the near future, and I want to know if there is a nice way to keep a similar method of managing and listing files. I can't think of a really good way to describe it, but when I want 'Content Management", I don't want articles and entries, I just want file uploads with descriptions and a central listing of those files broken up into categories. Is there a nice smooth way to migrate from e107 to Drupal, keeping this functionality? I would also like to know of any quality Drupal -> SMF bridges, if possible.

Sorry if I was a bit confusing. :( All help is appreciated.

How can I remove tags from the source code?

liamaloma — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:47:35 +0000

Hi,
I'm not sure if it should go here. However, here is the problem I'm facing.
I did the export of contents (Drupal 6.12) from the Wordpress (via the “Wordpress Import” module). It worked well in general , beside one thing - the front page (the first one) populates the source code of the output with the em tags. Oddly enough, it happens only with the front page. The em tags go into the:

- all, or some of the menu items (it really depends on a theme used)
- page selector in the bottom of the front page
- some, but not all of the content headings (all publications are of “story” type)
- some, but not all of the “xy comments”, “new comments”, “add comment” links.

Could somebody please help me out with that?
Grateful in advance, JT.

ps
If you think the issue doesn't belong to this thread, please suggest more appropriate place for it.

Using Drupal to handle two domains on Pair Networks account

jboris — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:41:30 +0000

I have two sites I use for both sides of my family (Mom's side and dad's side). Each has their own domain but I host them on my Pair Networks account. I would like to use Drupal to handle both sites in one installation and use the group the logged user belongs to to handle what they see. I can have both domains point to the same section on my account but can Drupal be configured to offer one Home page for non logged users and then based on the group of the logged user give them their appropriat page? I have read the how to sections for using Drupal to handle multiple sites but it mentions setting symbolic links which I am not sure will work in my Web setup.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

drupal menu

paparts — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:26:08 +0000

Hi all,

I am converting a site to drupal and I have a menu that uses SpryAssets and I want to use convert the site as what it is in static page. http://www.rccdo.org can i ask ideas or help on how I can do the menu. Thanks!

URL redirect

ridolfidesigns — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:24:29 +0000

I have a client that wants her old website converted into drupal. However, she told me that people have certain pages bookmarked. Obviously she doesn't want those links to be broken. Is there a module that would allow me to put in the old URL to redirect to the new one without the user knowing?

Thanks,

Eric

secundairy links

macmeureg — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:35:23 +0000

Hello,

I'm new to Drupal and tried to create my first website. I've created primary and secundairy links. the primary links are in the left part of the site. The secundairy links are in then foot of the webiste, but for some reason I don't find the way to have the menu items listed in a horizontal way. As i see the examples of the template they look good. In my site, the menu items are listed under each other. Is there a way to configure wether the menu is build horizontal or vertical. It's probaly something simple, but I cannot find it.

S.

are there any other popular forums for converting to drupal?

drupalize — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:33:08 +0000

Wondering if there are other popular forums I can post to as sometimes I do not get replies in this forum. Thanks

Any documentation to explain how drupal actually builds an html form?

drupalize — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:41:04 +0000

For example, something that explains the components such as drupal_get_form and related functions which ultimatey buildout the complete form. I am looking for something that explains the steps, how the form elements go from data stored in an array to the html output...

I am familiar with some of the hooks for providing drupal with the form information, text box, text area, checkbox.. etc, now I would like to see how drupal processes this information to generate its output.

Thanks

"Bad Request" and "Forbidden" errors

wdmartin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:07:15 +0000

Yesterday I went to a client's site to demo a theme I'd made for them based on a design they provided. When we were looking at it, we encountered "Bad Request" or "Forbidden" errors every time we submitted a form through the site. Some of the forms worked, but many did not. For example, logging in would generate a "Bad Request" error, but then you actually would be logged in and could proceed. Similarly, you could create new content without problems. But any time we tried to change settings in the admin section, we'd get either "Bad Request" or "Forbidden" and the changes would not be made. I've never seen anything quite like it, but it rendered the site more or less unusable. There were no errors in the Drupal logs related to the errors, and I haven't got access to the server logs to check them (yet -- the sysadmin is in Hawaii on vacation for the next week).

It was also profoundly embarrassing. Why is it that the worst screwups ALWAYS happen during demos?

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Anonymous are allowed to post content on Drupal?

sonoiosai — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:58:42 +0000

Hello everybody,
I'm using Joomla for my website but unfortunatly I discovered that in Joomla Anonymous user cannot post content, the have to register before... My aim is to creat a easy fast user generated content, is Drupal right to do this? Any suggestion is really appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
Nicolò

Moving mysql database to a drupal mysql database

Jimmel — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:16:19 +0000

I have a website which I originally created using Dreamweaver. Attached to that website is a sql database of over a thousand names and addresses, etc. I would like to know how to transfer the original database to a new drupal 6 website so I can used and access this information through the views module in drupal. Does each piece of information in the original database convert into individual nodes once transferred? I hope someone can help me with this. If you need more information please don't hesitate to let me know.

Thanks.