Drupal

Drupal 6 pay2publish / Pay per Node

Posted Fri, 07/03/2009 - 17:25 by admin

I needed a pay per node solution for Drupal, I was very surprised at the distinct lack of modules for this in Drupal! I have started to port the uc_nodetype module for ubercart but have hit some issues. If anyone is interested in helping me with this, then please let me know.

It mostly works quite smoothly, the only problem I have is trying to display the node edit form on the cart checkout page, it either breaks the page or doesn't show any field elements. It should be such an easy thing but I can't figure it out.

Drupal 6 Install schema doesn't create any tables

Posted Fri, 06/26/2009 - 12:40 by admin

Basically I was creating a module and it wasn't creating any of the tables I had told it to set up in my .install file, and as far as I can see there weren't any mistakes.

What I found out was that because I had already installed and activated the module once, it wasn't re-running the install file and thus creating the tables.

All you have to do is disable the module AND uninstall the module. You will probably receive an error saying that it can't find the tables to remove but thats fine, thats the problem we are having!

My Drupal 6 block template file doesn’t work

Posted Sat, 06/06/2009 - 22:02 by admin

I had the problem whereby I wanted to change the theme layout of the locale bar. The devel module told me to use the template file “block-locale.tpl.php” but when I created this file and populated it with dummy information, it did nothing. I tried clearing the cache and still could not get it to change the content of the locale block.

In the end I found out that if you do not have block.tpl.php (example code below for you to start with) in your theme then block-locale.tpl.php gets ignored.

Drupal WYSIWYG stops working with my new template

Posted Sat, 06/06/2009 - 22:00 by admin

I work on the technical side of Drupal and my colleague works on the design part. At one point in time (without realising when), our WYSIWYG editor stopped working and no others would work in its place. We were using HTMLArea/Xinha but tried the YUI as well as the FCKeditor without any luck.

The strange thing was that the WYSIWYG editor would appear in the blocks edit page but not when creating/editing a page.

Drupal htaccess for SEO friendly URLs (clean URLs)

Posted Sat, 06/06/2009 - 21:59 by admin

I have had some issues myself with drupal websites and getting the SEO friendly URLs to work when I either have no access to the server or the server changes cannot be made (CPANEL does cause a problem)

Attached is a copy of an htaccess for Drupal 5 and 6 that you can use….