General discussion

4.5 has taken major steps forward. I have installed, configured, trained, and maintained approximately 12 sites during the last 12 months. I think I actually started with 4.0 (so I missed a lot ;-).

Just a few things I've noticed and like in 4.5

• Sub category tabs - whew what a relief these are
• More language instead of techno 'slanguage' such as categories instead of taxonomy even though taxonomy needs to be preserved so it is understood why many of us came to Drupal in the first place
• filestore2 is for real now! And there is a default browse 'files' link - very nice to see this module out of the 'closet' and easier to use
• Image module seems to work well even if it still defaults to "convert.exe" as if Windoze was the default server OS ;-)
• Administration is easier and more intuitive (with maybe the exception of the excellent, but slightly confusing Menus) for instance settings seems to make more sense than module listings within modules.
• Permissions and access control are coming together - this essential element looks like it is within striking distance of a major implementation by 5.0 if not before.
• There is more, but since I complained so much a year ago in spite of loving taxonomy, I thought I'd start a list of what I like and add to it

I have installed 4.5 four times now. Everytime a clean install. Things work great for a while but then using the admin and settings just hangs the browser and casues Drupal to corrupt and crash. There are no errors and reseting MySQL does not help. Going to the front page you see the front page content but there is no login section and anything requiring the querystring just hangs the browser.

The title says it all i guess ;-)
Im hacking the chameleon theme for a new flexinode type and wish to use whatever function handles the above rather than "do it my way"....

Much thx..

Nick

Has anybody ever thought of asking for search results to be sorted by different criteria?

Hi all,
I developed some custom modules with extra fields in 4.4 without using theme functions, but, migrating them to 4.5, I would like to be Drupal compliant.
I'm a little confused between _view and _content hooks, and I would need some suggestions by you.

My goal is to display a node in a different mode when displaying a list of nodes or displaying a single node.

Could you suggest to me how to proceed with a working example, please ??

thanks a lot
Matteo

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