General discussion

Looking around for a smiley replacement i found that although a filter is available it seemed buggy at best.

I managed to stumble on the excellent Wordfilter http://drupal.org/project/wordfilter and what a gem of a find this was :)

It can be used for a variety of things and yes, you guessed it, as a smiley replacement turning :) into its icon representation. Just install your images in a convienient location and add the appropiate html to the filter replace. Coupled with TINYMCE and its smiles addon my members now have full control over smileys. Its fantastic.

Also the other culture happening these days is chat acronymns. I hate these and you are all likely to encounter them one day or other. You know the type where FWIW = for what its worth, IMO = for In My Opinion etc so i have started up a filter to automatically replace these also.

Last but not least is profanity. Advertisers hate profanity and again you can sensor or replace bad words easily.

Its truly a great filter and one that deserves respect. Thanks to the author.

One thing i'm keen to do is replace often misspelled words and also install far more of these chat acronymn filters but what i'm concerned about is whether this would cause speed decreases ? This list of "chat speak" here http://www.sharpened.net/glossary/all_acronyms.php is quite extensive but would there be adverse speed issues on adding all these to the filter ?

I was looking for a soulmate.. and i bumped into Drupal there too... What say??? Click on the link for more details.. No pun intended but i found it hard to keep my discovery to myself..

http://www.shaadi.com/partner_search/matrimonial_search/profile.php?prof...

A true Drupal'ian

This drupal 4.7 site:

http://www.ihea.info

is actually installed in this directory: http://www.ihea.info/ihea_47/

I want the user to see only http://www.ihea.info/ and not see the reference to /ihea_47/ in the addressbar.

If you use drupal's core roles to restrict content so you have to log in to view it, does that also mean that it cannot be indexed? I have sections of a site that should not be indexed or publicly viewable. It seems like putting those folders in a robots.txt file is more a request that it not be indexed but doesn't actually prevent it. Can anyone clarify this for me?

I'm looking for an easy to use issue tracking system that can integrate with Drupal. So far, the Project module looks promising, but it seems to have one missing feature that would remove it as an option for me... Specifically, I need to allow *some* users access to *some* projects.

For example, Joe might have access to Project1, Jane to Project2, and Sara to both project1 and project2. In this case, Jane should have no indication that Project 1 exists and Joe should not know about Project 2. But both can add issues to their respective projects.

I know I should not modify the phptemplate.engine, but I did not know what to add to the template.php file and make it work. Could someone tell me how to put the code in the template.php? Is there a way to add one item to the $variable array?

This is what I did to get it to work.

In phptemplate.engine
find this code

$variables = array(
    'base_path' 

I added to the end
'langlinks' => i18n_get_links($_GET['q'])