User profile improvements

By Dries on

Earlier this week I committed a new profile module to the development branch. I just finished upgrading drupal.org to take advantage of these new improvements. If you check your account settings (authentication required), you'll notice that I added quite a few fields that let you define your role within the Drupal community or the Drupal project.

Furthermore, updated profiles can be browsed (or filtered) using some of these new fields. For example, click here for a list of Belgian Drupal users, here for a list of female Drupal users or here for a list of documentation contributors.

(Update, March 21: I've made some more changes based on the feedback posted in the comments. The updates are outlined below. You might want to revisit your account settings.)

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.5.x or older

Template for MT entry and comment export and Drupal import

To do:

  • Automatically create accounts
  • Export MT categories and import to Drupal taxonomy

Limitations:

  • All comments are from the Anonymous user
  • All comments are unthreaded
  • The comment subject is made from the first five words of the comment
  • The import defaults to using uid 1, i.e. the site admin (change the $uid variable to import to another user)
  • All posts are promoted to the front page
  • All comments have a published status
  • MT categories (Drupal taxonomy terms) are not exported

Instructions:

  1. Create a new Movable Type Index template called Drupal Import with import.php specified as the Output File
  2. Cut and paste the following into the Template body textarea
  3. Set the variables below the //set variable defaults comment to the correct values
  4. Save and rebuild the template
  5. Load import.php in your web browser

If the import is successful, the output will be a single sentence listing the number of entries and comments imported.

<html>
<head>
<title>Export</title>
</head>
<body>

<?php
//set variable defaults
$hostname = "";
$username = "";
$password = "";
$db = "";
⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.5.x or older

Disabling clean URLs

It's possible that a Drupal site that was once configured to run with clean URLs later on stops doing so. After that, almost all content is inaccessible, because the paths being generated are not supported by the hosting platform.

This occasionally happens

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.5.x or older, Drupal 4.6.x, Drupal 4.7.x, Drupal 5.x, Drupal 6.x, Drupal 7.x, Site administrators, Needs technical review

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