General discussion

My partner and I recently put up a Drupal site, each. He has programming experience, and I have HTML and CSS experience. He turned me on to Drupal, and convinced me to use it. But Drupal made me cry. After falling for its features and the functionality it would give my site, I began to install and configure. Greg pledged to help with coding and modules and I set out to take my new site design and work it into a theme.

That's when I cried. PHPtemplate kicked me right between the eyes, and I was convinced I'd have to abandon the whole thing.
 
I'm stubborn, though, and my static site just wasn't doing it for me any more. So I went in and discovered stylesheets I hadn't known existed, and I became comfortable with page.tpl.php. Oh, how triumphant I now feel because I have a Drupal site that doesn't look like a Drupal site, has most of the functionality I want, and handles a few thousand visits a day.
 
I know that tons of work has gone into the Handbook, but I found that it didn't help me, and the forum is very difficult to search. Greg and I (and lots of others, from the look of the 2006 predictions) think that much of the next wave of Drupal adopters will be like me -- web savvy non-programmers eager to make their sites bigger and better and more interactive.
 
What I wouldn't have given for a basic, plain-language introduction to Drupal!
 

hi guys,

i want a have a simple kind of classifieds on my site and i am unable to find an appropriate module for it.

i have a bike site where users could sell or buy bikes:
so they just fill a form with name of the bike, description, image and a price. i don´t need categories. so it could be something like a guestbook but each post could have a thumbnail.

what could i use for that? thank you.

stefan

Install Slony

% tar -zxvf slony1.tar.gz
% cd slony1
% ./configure
% make install

Create and Sync Slave database

createdb -O contactuser drupal-4.7.0-beta2_slave
createlang -U postgres -h localhost plpgsql drupal-4.7.0-beta2_slave
pg_dump -s -U postgres -h localhost drupal-4.7.0-beta2 | psql -U postgres -h localhost drupal-4.7.0-beta2_slave

Create a script called "cluster_setup.sh"

#!/bin/sh
CLUSTER=drupal_cluster
DB1=drupal-4.7.0-beta2
DB2=drupal-4.7.0-beta2_slave
H1=localhost
H2=localhost
U=postgres

slonik <<_EOF_
cluster name = $CLUSTER;
node 1 admin conninfo = 'dbname=$DB1 host=$H1 user=$U';
node 2 admin conninfo = 'dbname=$DB2 host=$H2 user=$U';
init cluster (id = 1, comment = 'Node 1');

create set (id = 1, origin = 1,
comment = 'All Drupal Tables');

set add table (set id = 1, origin = 1, id = 1,
full qualified name = 'public.node_revisions',
comment = 'Node_Revision');

set add table (set id = 1, origin = 1, id = 2,full qualified name = 'public.access',comment = 'Access Table');
set add table (set id = 1, origin = 1, id = 3,full qualified name = 'public.accesslog',comment = 'Access Log Table');
set add table (set id = 1, origin = 1, id = 4,full qualified name = 'public.aggregator_category',comment = 'Access Table');
set add table (set id = 1, origin = 1, id = 5,full qualified name = 'public.aggregator_category_feed',comment = 'Access Table');

I maintain a web site as a hobby, using php and mysql. A friend suggested that I look at Drupal. I'm not familiar with content management systems. After poking around the Drupal web site for over an hour, I still can't figure out specifically how Drupal works. What do I do when I create a web site using Drupal?

I was optimize drupal's menu in administration setup, and I saw the next Fatal error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: node_load() in /home/content/o/p/i/myHOST/html/NAME/includes/common.inc(1857) : eval()'d code on line 10

I can't enter in the URL, and I don't know where is the problem. Anybody can help me?

Thanks

Co-op Tools (www.cooptools.ca) is hiring a PHP/MySQL programmer to do extensive upgrades to a Drupal (www.drupal.org) code base to be shared across multiple large scale web sites.

Approximately 15 hours a week.
10 week contract with potential to continue long-term.
Wage: $40-60/hr USD
Starting January 2006

Please submit your C.V. and list of recent Drupal projects to:

jd(at)cooptools.ca

Deadline is December 29th. International applications are welcome.

== Skills Required ==

* Linux Apache system administration.
* PHP, MySQL, XML and JavaScript programming.
* Expert knowledge of evolving Drupal APIs.
* Awareness of accessibility standards.
* Subversion code management.
* Collaboration within the Drupal community.
* Reasonable (technical) English

== Expectations ==

* Extremely dependable.
* Quick and friendly communication on a daily basis.
* Addressing bugs right away.
* Reusing other peoples good code when ever appropriate.
* Contributing code back to Drupal community.
* Proactive in improving functionality.
* Co-operate well with project manager to refine specifications, set reasonable milestones and to follow through with professionalism.
* Co-operate well with other developers.

== Responsibilities ==

* Development, testing, release and maintenance of secure, efficient and stable Drupal code.
* Managing contributions of code by other developers.