General discussion

Hello,
I was wondering how to include latest stories (just titles and selected taxomomies) in the mission statement.

Thank you,

Someone mentioned in Orkut a "(not much publicized) foaf.module". I asked there for this module but got no answer. Searching "FOAF" in drupal.org gives no results, although there is a project started called Profile.module -> Leveraging profile info. for social networking capabilities.

how could I change this: http://www.mysite.com/node/view/11
to this"http://www.mysite.com/articles/view/11
Instead of "node", i want to use "articles"
and how could I change this:http://www.mysite.com/taxonomy/view/or/1/
to this:http://www.mysite.com/w-parts/view/or/1/

Is there a problem with the hosting service which makes it problematic for the drupal site to activate subscriptions/notification for forums?

Subscriptions is available in some project areas but not having it available for registered users on the forums is a real time-stealer.

-GZ

Recently I went looking for a snippet of PHP that provided access to Google's Web Services API, so that I could have a block on my blog which automatically generated google search results based on the page title (or whatever).

I found one, but it didn't work. I fixed it and set it up as a Drupal block; here it is:

// requires PEAR SOAP client
include("SOAP/Client.php");

// Adjust query to suit your purposes.
$sql = "SELECT title FROM node
        WHERE type='blog' AND promote=1 AND status=1
        ORDER BY created desc limit 1";
$obj = db_fetch_object(db_query($sql));

// first, try and use page title
// note that when reading a blog or story node, the page
// title is the node title.. so
$qstr = drupal_get_title();

// if blank, skip the block
if ($qstr == '')
  return;  // or apply a default $qstr = 'something';


$output = "Google results for '".$subj."':

";

// Adjust the query prior to SOAP call...
$qstr = $qstr . ' -mydomainname';  // recommend excluding your domain name

$key = 'googleapikey';

$s = new SOAP_Client('http://api.google.com/GoogleSearch.wsdl');

// Adjust further parameters here (see google for docs)
$parameters = array(
    'key' => $key, 'q' => $qstr,
    'start' => 0, 'maxResults' => 10,
    'filter' => false, 'restrict' => '',
    'safeSearch' => false, 'lr' => '',
    'ie' => '', 'oe' => '');

Hi,

The following tries to do two things at once:

• Find out how "good" Drupal is
• Adjust my expectations before I dig too deeply into any OSS CMS

(And advance apologies for the length)

So here we go:

A group of friends has decided that they want "a website" - the basic idea is to support the social network with an online medium.

Some poor sod (aka "me") has been tasked to make it happen - so that poor sod draws up some rough specs.