General discussion

Hi

I have successfully set up a number of non-critical sites on 4.7 beta4, with quite a few contrib modules, and all is working fine.

I'd now like to take some tentative steps toward getting more involved in the drupal community, and specifically developing some themes. I'm reasonably experienced in html/css, and have been learning php gradually. I think a theme would be a good first step for me.

I'd like some guidance please on the best working methods to do this, and also on maintaining my own site.

Here's where i'm at:
1. Have read the drupal handbooks, and spent about 18 months hanging around in these forums and reading the mailing lists. I've also explored the code alot.
2. Have downloaded+installed eclipse plus it's php add-in and grabbed head from CVS.
3. I have a number of non-critical sites running on 4.7 beta4 and one critical site running on 4.6. The sites on 4.7b4 are running under a multi-site configuration off one codebase.
4. all my sites are on a dedicated LAMP server i manage.

Here's what I'd like to know please (please bear in mind I am a newb to development):

1. Is there a way for me to use eclipse to merge changes from head or the 4.7 branch into a 'master' drupal codebase on my local pc, then 'sync' this master with the codebase on my server - i.e. have two projects: one connected to drupal cvs, one to live codebase on my server, but with changes being moved from drupal cvs to my own project as i require them, then with easy syncing from my project to my server? should i install a cvs server on my remote server too? is there another way? Or do i need to stick with filezilla to get code from my local pc to my live server? (is the new microsoft SyncToy any good for this also?)

Hello,

my web server runs with mysql 4.1, but I recently installed xampp with MySQL 5.0.18 and PHP 5.1.1 on my local machine. I´ve tried to import the live databases with success, but drupal doesn´t work fine.

What I need to do in order to work on this new environment?

Thanks in advance, Simon.

My .htaccess file in drupal root folder don't allow me to open an empty web folder in drupal directory (without index.html or index.php).

Exist a way to add an exception for one directory?

Thanks !

Recently, most cron runs give a message like this:

Failed to notify pingomatic.com (site).

Anyone else seeing this?

Andre
http://www.aguntherphotography.com
http://www.opentravelinfo.com

Hello Drupalers!

Just found a very usefull thing in drupal.
PHP Snippets.

How can I implement it directly to my theme? i'm using php template engine.

I have trieyed two different snippets.

First one works fine. (http://drupal.org/node/17142)
But second one doesn't work (http://drupal.org/node/30967)

Does anybody know how to deal with that?

Hi,
Just a simple question.
If you follow the link below you can see how the text in the middle overlaps with boxes on the right side.
Just wondering an easy way to fix this formatting issue.
Thanks!

http://www.localtattoo.com/?q=tracker