General discussion

Dear forum,

I would like to apply this patch of update #2 to the book module but I have never done a patch before and I read the diff and patch thread but it meant nothing to me.

I use a third party server and don't have shell access so I read something about manually changing the script but looking at the original book module I haven't a clue where the patch should go.

Hello all,
I've setup a site for a friend with mediawiki and I totally don't think it's what we need to get the job done. I'm looking at Drupal and thinking it's the way to go. We've setup another site on Drupal (I'll be posting some questions regarding that site soon hahaha) as an extension to MadPenguin.org and it works very well so I'm inclined to use it again for this project I'm helping my friend setup.

Anyway... this is the idea: He want's to setup something similar to Craigs List where people can trade things (not necessarily sell them, but give them away) in an auction style format. The only reason I use the term auction is because we'd need to allow a 'timed post' format. For instance, let me explain...

A registered user would be able to click a link titled 'submit item' or something similar and could ideally choose the length of time it would be listed. Once the item was listed, users would be able to browse to it, read about it, and optionally click a "I'll take it' button or something similar. That would end the listing immediately and would send the person who listed the item an email stating who ended it and their contact info.

That's it in a nutshell. Is there anything even remotely similar to what I'm looking for? Or maybe even a module that could be customized to suit his needs? Any input is appreciated!

I have a very weird issue with one of my sites. very, very weird. Lets see if anyone can figure it out.
I have a website where I had installed Drupal with weblink module at one time using the fantastico. Later on I removed Drupal from that domain and installed a cgi script that pulls amazon data and displays in a search engine friendly format using a mod_rewrite script.

If I go to the main site like typing http://www.findthedeal.com and browse throuh the categories etc, everything is fine.
However recently I noticed that if I go to MSN search and type site:findthedeal.com (This actually happened before with yahoo and google as well, and now they are no longer listing pages from this site) I get a lot of links like this as result:
http://findthedeal.com/weblink/view/stuffed_animals-toys-171992-0.html

as you may have noticed , even though there is no Drupal installation there at this domain links look like a weblink module URL

normally it looks like
http://findthedeal.com/stuffed_animals-toys-171992-0.html

My current script does not use any database by the way, it pulls XML and parses and generates pages on the fly.

When I checked my phpMyAdmin, there are no databases listed, however, in the textfield to type a database name to create a new one, there is this info populated without me typing anything "findthed_drpl1" .
This was the name of my database when there was a Drupal installation, but there is no Drupal anymore.

hi,

creating account , e-mail password or etc. my site can send the mail.but mail from nobody.
how do i make a sender name to mail which post from my site.

thanks.

I’m new to drupal and I’m trying to use it to set up a story repository where I’m the only person that’ll be doing the actual posting. Should I make each author’s name a term in an “Author” vocabulary? (There’ll be hundreds.) Or should I register each author as a user? I’ve tried the former already (each author a term) but I’m concerned there may be a LIMIT to the number of terms a vocabulary can have. Is there?

Also, this alphabetical listing function looks to be exactly what I need:
http://drupal.org/node/7049