Say I have a block on this central site, be it 'most recent comments' or 'announcements' or whatever. I'd llike to have other sites (on separate domains with separate dbs) have the same block, so that once this central one is updated, all the other sites will be updated automatically. The way I am trying to implement is:
a. On those satallite sites, create a block that calls an external javascript/php runs on the central site, something like:
I have a site to build where the content falls into a hundred (or more) clumps. I'm stating this generally because I don't want to get attached to a specific solution just yet.
The site is going to cover a field, in which there are a hundred (or more) sub-fields. Each of the subfields is a clump of content. I want to organize the content by these sub-fields. In some cases content will apply to multiple sub-fields, hence content should be able to appear in each clump to which it's appropriate. In some cases there is content whose general outline is the same (e.g. contact info for schools teaching that subfield) but the details are different for each subfield.
In any case ... I'm wondering about advice on implementing this.
I've thought about organic groups and have installed it on one site and I'm not entirely happy with it for this use. I just read through this issue: http://drupal.org/node/28224 and tend to agree with what's said there. If you have hundreds of groups, then the content submission page is going to get a checkbox for each and that's untenable. It might be a little better to have them grouped in a hierarchy like that page suggests, but I'm having a hard time visualizing that. Also in my case few/none of the groups need to be private.
This http://drupal.org/node/28480 generalized relationship module looks to be interesting but so vaporous that I'm not sure what it does. The general concept is interesting from a theory standpoint. But it doesn't seem to have a concrete representation that I can grab onto.
If there is a story or forum topic with comments, I would like to display an ad at the bottom of the comments (not the bottom of each comment, otherwise I could use comment.tpl.php, but rather at the bottom of the list of comments).
I could put something on the bottom of page.tpl.php, but then it would show up on all pages, but i just want it to show up when you are viewing a node with comments (and of course i can put it in node.tpl.php but then it shows above, not below, the comments).
I'm currently running 4.6.3. It's a new site, but as the site gets discovered by the search engines, many of the pages indexed (by Google and MSN in particular), are showing up with massive Session ID's in the search engine results.
Thus, for example, a typical indexed page has the following url in Google: