General discussion

Hi guys! I have a question (I hope I can explain it:-):

I just added some content directly into the database (into table node and url_alias), however when I tried to manually create a new page, I received a "duplicate node error". Obviously Drupal gives automatically a new nid, but does not recognize the new pages I have created in the database. How can I make hime see my last entry and start the auto_increment from there?

I tend to get a few "page not found" warnings... would love to have some sort of function that would tell me what page referred this error.

It's hard to find the culprit for some errors... Sometimes you're lucky and you remember which page you put certain links in but other times, the links have changed so its throwing errors - but you don't know which page link is causing the error 404

Drupal.org is just about at 40,000 users. Amazing!

I signed up here just over a year ago as user 13009. That's 27000 new people here in just a year.

And who says drupal isn't popular?

;0)

silverwing - wondering who it'll be

Is this possible? To get the stories in a taxanomy term sorted alphabetic by their title.

I don't know if this is in the right section or not, but I just wanted to know peoples thoughts. I've spent the good part of 2 weeks now messing around with almost every aspect of Drupal in the vain attempt to acheive the following.

I require a family portal effectively, somewhere where an entire extended family can communicate online by posting little (and maybe large) news articles, organising events and creating/viewing photo albums of all these events, stories and other things that go on in their lives. I wanted a site that looked really good (Drupal does), is easy to use for the end user and does everything I want it too and maybe more that I haven't thought of yet.

When I found Drupal i was overjoyed, it showed so much potential to do what I wanted, I was really excited about it! But now I cannot contain my frustration!

I installed it, got it working and started to look around the settings and functions etc. I wanted to use the organic groups module to be able to create a little mini home page for each family unit within the extended family, and then I wanted it to be possible for an article/album/story/poll to be posted to that group and viewable either just to that group, or to everyone, or to perhaps several groups but not everyone on the site. I also wanted to be able to post it to like a category (which is what the taxonomy module does I think) so that someone could browse the site by category... for example, if someone wanted to see how all their grandchildren are doing in unveristy they could click on a "category" menu item and be presented with a list of categories to choose from, one of which could be "University".

This was written by Karl Fogel of the Subversion project. It's available from O'Reilly or FREE online here:
http://www.producingoss.com/

I'm still reading it, but I'm sure there's some good stuff in there that could help the Drupal community and project. In some ways, I'm reading it to learn more about open source culture (and expectations), so I can collaborate on Drupal more smoothly.