General discussion

hello everybody,

I play with drupal for a while and I can't figure out one thing...

I use tagedelic module to display some tags in a cloud, it works fine, let's say one tag from the whole cloud is "restaurant" and when I click on it whole page with all restaurants is displayed, but I want do display those restaurant in a list, let's say list of restaurants names and tags added to individual restaurant like this:

-restaurant name1
tag1, tag2, tag3
-restaurant name2
tag1,tag2
-restaurant name3
tag1, tag3, tag4
-.....
.....

Hi All,

I'm not sure whether I can use scheduler or the banner image for this:

I'm going to have 31 nodes that I want to display on the relevant date. I can display a random image, so if this needs to be an external image or txt file that is icnluded, that's fine. However, I'd rather that they be actual nodes - blocks or pages.

I read a good approach on how to manage robots.txt in this post:
http://drupal.org/node/22265#comment-98197

I followed the directions and damned if it didn't break my cron job. Really.

I had a problem and posted a reply there, but I think the thread may have run dry. SO.. I'll risk being redundant in hopes to get some experienced insights on the subject.

Background
We're using multi-site, single code base with clean URLs.

Disclaimers - my coding skills are very rusty. Sure I used to use vi - but that was over 10 years ago and I don't know php. SO maybe it's just something stupid (usually is right :-).

I created a "page", turned off rich text marked the input as type php. Then I pasted the following into it (without the code tags of course):

<?php
Header('Content-type: text/plain');
?>
User-agent: *
Crawl-Delay: 10
Disallow: /tracker
Disallow: /comment/reply
Disallow: /node/add
Disallow: /user
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /book/print
<?php
die();
?>

I used a path alias of robots.txt

I hit save. Then when I navigate to mydomain.com/robots.txt I see the appropriate robots text just fine.

But I started getting cron errors right after that. I tried navigating to:
mydomain.com/cron.php and what do you know, it showed me the robots.txt text.

YET when I went on the fileserver and looked at cron.php it was there, it was correct.

(This started off as a comment to this article which Dries posted at Buytaert.net. It started getting long and thought it would be interesting to see what the rest of the community's thoughts are on such things)

Collaboration, not competition

It is important that Drupal distributions collaborate, and not compete. To do so, we have to provide Drupal distributions an environment that encourages collaboration, and that allows for specialization (such as custom documentation and support) without introducing incompatibilities that drive competition. - Dries

I'm coming at these subjects from a place that a lot of people deeply involved with core development probably don't consider much and/or don't think is important. But I there are probably a lot of people who do think it's important...

As a small, independent Drupal developer I can understand how forks happen. The pace of development can be very hard to try and keep up with if you're trying to get work out the door and do everything else a company needs to do to be successful. Plus there's the considerations of having to update everything every time a new version comes out - which lately would be a lot. The fact that each version continues to be a total standalone is quite a thing to realize the first time you grasp it...

hi. I'm using IIS for drupal. I've tested my email setttings and they work with joomla so something funny is going on with drupal.

I'm getting this error - warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 501 5.5.4 Invalid Address in d:\inetpub\wwwroot\drupal\modules\user.module on line 431.

Any ideas?