Deprecated - Drupal core

I'm currently building a site, which will hopefully eventually come a rather complicated Drupal implementation. The site will use at least the following modules in addition to Drupal core: Taxonomy Access Control, Taxonomy Browser, Image, HTMLArea, SiteMap or SiteMenu, Attachment, Event and Remindme. The site will run on PostgreSQL, and will actually include two separate sites using database prefixes and shared user tables. It will probably be based on 4.5.2, as 4.6 RC still generates way too much errors on Postgres, and the availablility of modules is also still poor.

I've noticed that in conf.php (settings.php in 4.6) that the values for $db_url and $db_prefix use double quotes. What if the the password uses a '$'? PHP will try to interpret the substring portion of the URL that starts with '$' as a variable.

Is there a reason that settings.php uses double quotes instead of single quotes?

Hello,

I am new in drupal and i am still trying to have a global view of all things provide by your nice CMS. I found many thing which exist both in Drupal and Pear. Apparently, it seems that Pear librairies are more sophisticated than Druapl one (form_builder, Dataobject, html_table, ...?). In another hand when i installed drupal, some Pear librairies were required. So my question is why drupal doesn't make a more extend use of pear librairies ? This could make module developpement more easy, fast and with more option, and larger developper communauty !

surely brighter minds than mine have noticed, so there must be a legit reason, but...

why is the teaser stripped from the story and stored in the database? this is merely duplicating content in the database as waste.

why not strip the teaser when the data comes out of the database for viewing when needed. an additional benefit would be that the teaser length would not be limited to what the setting was when the story was origionally stored.

calvin.

Hi there --

I was recently trying to get book navigation layout working while I was using the Node Relativity module. Things were odd, since the relativity links (which occur during the 'links' callback) would appear after the book navigation (which happens during the 'view' callback). This was ugly and not that useable.

After a while, I figured out that there was no way to change this via admistration options, so I made up a patch (well, a series of patches unfortunately, of which this is the first) to do this, but now I'm not sure where or how to post it so that others may use it if they want to do the same thing.

I thought this forum might be a good place, but there doesn't seem to be any way to attach a patch file here. Then I was going to try under /projects/issues, but there isn't anything for the book.module and putting it under 'Drupal' seems a bit silly since I'm not suggesting that these patches be incorporated in the core.


Index: modules/book.module
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RCS file: /cvs/drupal/drupal/modules/book.module,v
retrieving revision 1.285
diff -u -r1.285 book.module
--- modules/book.module 12 Feb 2005 07:51:14 -0000 1.285
+++ modules/book.module 17 Mar 2005 06:03:36 -0000
@@ -500,9 +500,10 @@
$output .= '


I just submitted a couple of patches that add $node->preview and $comment->preview flags to allow themes to style previews:

http://drupal.org/node/18792

Screen shots and discussion are here:

http://mg.to/2005/03/13/drupal-preview-confusion

and a working demo with an updated FriendsLight theme is here: