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Attempting to vBulletin-ize Drupal's forums.

Hey there,

As an experiment, I tried to make drupal's forums look like Vbulletins complete with the sort header style, and the footers and so forth.

This is just a start, but I'd appretiate any feedback.

Check out the Health and Fitness Forum on Gimme20.com -- There isn't much action yet -- but that isn't the point of looking at it!

Jordan

creating links in a drupal post.

I would like to add url links on to a post using drupal, so that users can
go to another Web-site based on a click they make on my post.

There is probably other code that i could use in the odd post too.

Is there somewhere where I can find thses things? (ie. where abouts in the hand book is it?) Thanks!

Menus that DO not expand

Hi all,
I'm using the standard bluemarine theme.
I'm having an issue with menus that DO not expand.

steps are:
1) create a new MENU ITEM M1 as a primary links. Creating this menu I do not check the "Expanded" check box
2) create a new MENU ITEM M2 that has M1 as parent

Now M1 appears as a primary link, BUT when I click on it the M2 does not appear!

any help?

f.

Bad usability hack with user named "Anonymous"

Now, I just might have my site poorly configured (please let me know) but I just found a pretty easy way to cause some havoc on a drupal site. So lets say my default anonymous comment name is "Anonymous". This is the default Drupal setting afterall.

But now if someone comes along and creates a new user account with the name "Anonymous" then no one can post comments without logging in any more. Whenever you do, the drupal site just tells you that that user name is taken. Sure you can change the default name, but it isn't very usable.

taxonomy.module, cron, and taxonomy.access

For contribuited modules, I have taxonomy.access running.

I was getting the following error in watchdog on one of my each time cron.php would run either automatically, or manually via an anonymous user (like an automated crontab):

Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/.ignacia/botpnetwork/temple.brotherhoodofthephoenix.org/spark/modules/taxonomy.module on line 1184.

The error would show up many times in a row within the same second each cron run.

However, If I was logged in to the Drupal site, and ran cron.php manually, the errors would not show up in Watchdog.

Alternativly, if I either unpublish any content that anonymous users aren't allowed to see (due to taxonmy.access) - or disable taxonomy.access entirely - I also don't get any errors in Watchdog.

Now, lets make matters weirder;

Search is saying:

0% of the site has been indexed. There are 10 items left to index.

Search settings:
10 items per cron run
Maximum word length: 3
NOTE: I have tried clicking reindex to flush the cache; changing the word length to 4; changing the word length from 3 to 4 then back to 3; and changing the items per cron from 10 up through to 500; - none make the site actually index during a cron

This stays the same no matter what fixes I try above (ie: unpubishing restricted content, turning off taxonomy.access, or running cron.php when I am logged into the drupal site).

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