General discussion

Had set out to write this online book for Drupal developers Inside the Drupal Source but it is turning out to be a frustrating excersise! :(

The Drupal source is very dynamic so writting an offline book and putting it out was not the way to go. Therefore, I set out to write it online so that changes in the source can be reflected ASAP in the book. Here's why this is not working out:

Firstly everytime I write a page, there is this moderation waiting period before which it does not appear in the Documentation page. Would'nt the Wiki way be much better, of rollback'in to a previous version in case there are problems rather than having to moderate every post?

Secondly, every time I make changes to the Page, I cant see them in the Preview! I did see this bug report though today Book preview is bogus on drupal.org, so I guess this is getting fixed.

I started writting Chapter 1 and then later updated it as I was figuring out the code, but I cant see my updates! . BTW someone has posted this bug report Incorrect conf.php file may be selected in a multi-host environment that is related to what Im talking about in Chapter 1. If the page was moderated it would let the others in the community know the context of that bug report in detail.

I've got 8 individual news sites running with Drupal (the virtual hosting options are great for this), and I have one page which aggregates the news from all of the other sites as sort of a central repository, by setting the Default Front Page to "import"..

The problem I'm having now is that I can't control how many stories from each feed appear on the home page, so the first feed fills the whole thing.

Is there a way to control how many stories from each news feed are listed, or to maybe alternate one from each feed?

Thanks,
fnord

I've just read an email from Bèr Kessels in the drupal developers forum. His suggestion is to use the weblinks module as a service for other modules. He points out that the profile.module, drupal.module, import.module and others all store web links and suggests that they should be stored in a central location.

My question is, what are the pros and cons to such a service?

I am running the stable release of Debian (woody), which comes with postgresql 7.2. The problem is, Drupal (at least the CVS release) tries to create a table called "path". This is a problem, since technically, "path" is a reserved keyword. Apparently, in versions 7.3 and up, this keyword checking is not as strict, and it "just works."

After importing the database.pgsql script, the error "ERROR: type named path already exists" shows up, and the table "path" is never created. I tried modifying the script to put the word "path" in quotes, but it still fails

Does anybody know ıs there any module that helps each user to make
their own directory structure in drupal in order to store their files like "images" etc.. ?

The idea with the catalog structure is GREAT for huge sites. i really like it, i have seen tons of cms's but this one has its benefits.
The no:1 thing i like is search engines find the sites much easier and i can get more sites indexed.
This is very good, and i intend to start using drupal for my site, and possibly in my work, if some steps are made in the new version.

Drupal has a few wrongs in it, I will give you some very good tips to put into the new version, and hopefully you will do the following steps, cause it will increase traffic and search engine placement for all drupal sites.

It's not how many sites google indexes, its how high up you get them.

These rules apply to some other large search engines aswell.

1) google does not index more than 1 id. (this is eliminated with he catalog structure, wich is good :) )
2) on drupal, you do not have different titles for different sites...

Lets say we have a site named "Drupal | community plumbing"
like this one, but we go into someones discussion, lets say this one, on a search engine optimised site... the title would now be "Drupal | Search engine tips for drepal.org development"
If you have the same title on 10000 pages, and similar content in like 4000 of them, google will not index them, cause it thinks it is the same site.

3) Just a little note for you writers out there, the titles and desciption of your articles, tutorials, or whatever your site contains, dunt make them too large, if they are too big google will skip them.