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Display Drupal content outside Drupal?

Is it possible to use Drupal to feed a few dynamic portions of a mostly static website? We have a plain old website and are looking to create a sibling site just for web-app stuff (private CMS, databasing, some forms for specific things, etc.). Some of the content we create on the sibling site (which would be Drupal), we'd like to rend...

Alternative for View Filter Block for Drupal 6?

I am looking for a way to get the same functionality as "Views Filter Block" ( see http://drupal.org/project/views%5Ffilterblock) but for Drupal 6. Taken from the description: "The views_filterblock module basically moves the horizontal filter from the views page content area into a (vertical) block." Anyone? ...

Hide Drupal nodes from search.

I made a private section on a drupal site by writing a module that checks the RERQUEST_URI for the section as well as user role. The issue I am running into now is how to prevent those nodes/views from appearing in the search. The content types used in the private section are used in other places in the site. What's the best way to ge...

Recoding a Podcast Website - What should I use?

OK here is the deal. Me and some buddies are doing a Podcast(for over 4 year now) and in April we relaunched the site, that included a new Backend. Since I only had 2 weeks back then for getting everything to work, I decided to create something from scratch so everything fitted precisely our needs. The whole thing was written in Python b...

Upgrading from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7: best programmer's practices?

Although I am using drupal since the D4 series, I only started developing professionally for it with D6, so - despite I did various site upgrades - I was never faced by the task of having to port my own code to a new version. I know the Drupal community will come up with lot of technical support about changed API's and architectural cha...

Is there a .NET port of Drupal?

Is there a .NET port of Drupal? I love Drupal... I love the idea. I want it to be .NET because we are a Microsoft shop and have resources to create .NET components. ...

how to organize my menu, taxonomy, views, pages in drupal 6

i am try to build a web site, it has a 2 level menu. global|asia|euro|u.s (this is locaion menu) about|home|news (this is content menu) if a web site user clicks on global, it will show global|home page, if the user clicks euro , it will show euro|home page, clicks on u.s it shows u.s|home page. global|home , euro|home, u.s|home, all...

why is the springsource.com website built in drupal?

I was trying to learn a little about JAVA frameworks like Spring. I hit view source on springsource.com and it's totally Drupal (a PHP CMS). What's up with that? You would think they would build the site in their own framework, huh? ...

Understanding Drupal core?

I know there is Pro Drupal Dev for doing dev work on top of Drupal, but does anyone have suggestions for best places to look to understand the insides of Drupal? Thanks! ...

How to create Wordpress-style widgets in Drupal

Hi all, I'm investigating which CMS to use for my next project and am currently looking at Drupal. What I will need to do for the project is create widgets kind of like in Wordpress. Basically, little boxes that the user can provide parameters for, and I use the parameters in the widget. They can then place the widgets on the page, just...

Set values for an exposed field in a block (in Drupal)?

I've set up a view of "properties". One of the fields is "price". Now, i've exposed price in a block, so that you can search for it from the block. The problem is that when you view the block, it shows the field as a box where you can enter a value. What I want is a dropdown, where you can select the following options: < 1 million < 2 ...

How to change node languages in batches?

If I'm doing content translation in Drupal 6, how do I change the language on a large amount of nodes without having to do it for each node? I have over 500 nodes. ...

drupal: hide single taxonomy term in particular view display

Have a documents content type, with three taxonomies applied to it. Taxonomies are document type (form, policy, other), document group (hr, i.t., training, project specific, etc.), and a free-tagged project name (for when document group = project specific). Have single view displaying all documents, segregated by tabbed page displays: ...

Pass variable from module to theme template when using drupal_render

So I need to AJAX-reload part of a page, and so I'm building a little module to just return drupal_render($node->content['the_field']). Which seems to work fine, it's returning the same output as what was originally on the page. The problem is that I need to send a parameter from the module to the theme layer to change some imagecache p...

Drupal: listing content types with content count

I'm new to Drupal. I have a couple of Content Types and some of them have a special field called Foo. This field has value 1 for some Contents and 2 for others. I need to create a page that will list all the Content Types which have Contents with Foo equals 2. In this list, each item must be linked to 'some-page/$s', where $s is the Co...

How do I change "date field" format of a "view" in the form of a page in Drupal?

I'm trying to show a list of dates of Nodes using view. The list should be something like, 19 September 2009 20 September 2009 Right now it can only show like Thu, 2009-11-12 (All day) Mon, 2009-11-09 (All day) ...

Is it possible to customise drupal node reference and pass your search and a argument from another field

I'm trying to create a bespoke form in drupal, with a node reference field. I'd like to add a little extra functionality to the node reference auto complete. I've created a view, that contains an argument. I'd like to be able to pass that argument from a drop down as well as the typed text into the autocomplete script. Does anyone know...

imap_open mbox windows

Hello Everyone, I'm hoping to use mailhandler on drupal to suck in an mbox into a fourm. However, I keep getting the following errors: warning: imap_open() [function.imap-open]: Couldn't open stream in C:\wamp\www\ngl-drupal\modules\mailhandler\mailhandler.module on line 188. warning: imap_close(): supplied argument is not a valid ima...

Subdomain not reading modules or themes folder under sites/all/

I have a site set up with drupal, everything going fine. I then added a subdomain, and that too was fine until I went to enable a custom theme that was under the sites/all/themes folder. The theme does not show properly in the admin panel (no thumbnail), and when activated, the site appears to have no structure at all. The theme I am ...

Views/Flags relationship-argument puzzle

I'm currently wrestling with a views relationship-argument puzzle. I have a Flag setup called Favorites, so that users can favorite site content. I also am using Content Profiles and Pathauto. Now I'm adding a views content attachment to the user content profile to display the user's chosen favorites. Pathauto's default content profi...