Page 79 in chapter 3 wants the user to override the content type to be blog instead of article for a view display. The blog module is not enabled by default so the blog type is not available until the module is enabled. The user has to enable the blog module first.

On page 71 there is a section, "Define What Type of Content You Want to Display"

It says to "Select User from the Filter select box and select the User:Name filter from the list" This option is not available until you define a relationship first relating (& requiring) an author relationship to the content.

Reading Chap 3, I was very excited to try out this Views Exporter... But it didn't install, with Views. I may have an odd installation (I started out with the Drupal Commerce Kickstart, before I acquired this book), but I tried downloading the Views module and installing it again. No dice. There are only two modules under Modules | Views - Views and Views UI, no Views Exporter.

Any ideas?

In the example in chapter 3 on page 71, creating a view of articles by a specific author, it is said to add a filter for User: Name. I was not given this option until I added a relationship to Content: Author. Did I miss that part, is this a recent development, or is it wrong in the book?

As I have said at Amazon and in the discussion that I unsuccessfully tried to kick-start in the theming chapters discussion board page, I think this book does a great job of explaining the "how" of template overrides, theme functions, theme hook suggestions, pre/process functions, and the render api's alter hooks in building and customizing a site from scratch.

For handling multi-sites config and deployment, I hear that Aegir is a big thing. I'm not a programmer or coder though. Will appreciate a simple, hands-on introduction to this subject. Next edition, perhaps? (Otherwise love the book. It's truly fantastic in scope and execution.)

Hi there.

First of all - Thanks a lot for this great book about Drupal! - This is deffently gonna be the new 'bible' for this area.

A have a request regarding the Errata-page. Is it possible, that you could add the page-number aswel in the 'teaser-view'- for the specific error, and sort the view be page-number when more errors are added to the Errata-page? - It makes it easy to navigate.

Just a thought.

Once again thank all of you guys.

Best regards,

Steffen

"Bypass content access control" really means let users in a role with that permission view unpublished content (and edit and delete any content, unfortunately). Administer content does not grant this power to see unpublished content nor to edit and delete any content. In Drupal 7 this permission seems to do little more than what the separate "Access the content overview" page does.

http://drupal.org/project/user

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookieswap/

and

Masquerade module

If Drupal tells you from the modules page that an update is needed, and you click the link and it says everything is fine, click over to the Updates report page (admin/reports/updates) to get the full story. It will usually be something important: a module you installed that is no longer supported (which is why it both is "in need of updating" and at the same time has no updates are available).

See http://drupal.org/node/961060 for trying to fix this.

Via Moshe Weitzman: the long story is at http://drupal.org/node/231298. or you could just read the docs in the file.

sites/default.sites.php

Remember that the array you are defining has two defaults before you get into it! It's not simply $databases = array() as Drupal starts you off, it is a deeply nested array and you might as well start off like this:

drupal_array_merge_deep

http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--bootstrap.inc/function/drupal_array_merge_deep/7

Works as you'd want array_merge_recursive to work sometimes— don't turn single values into arrays, have the latest overwrite.

See http://data.agaric.com/node/3441

http://drupal.org/project/weblinks

More user-friendly (and site-builder friendly) way to create a page of weblinks than Link (field) and Views modules.

if makes it to 7 in time.

Thu Dec 30 18:19
Danny_Joris: i was looking for this for more than an hour - I write the question here and 2 secs later I find the answer myself.
Danny_Joris: this irc channel has a mysterious influence on me.

Google lets you put any number of periods in your gmail address, and it ignores all of them when receiving mail for you.

Try it; it's fun!

Spammers have taken advantage of this, unfortunately, to spam more and more easily.

If you see a Gmail address with about as many periods as letters, it is probably a spammer. If that address turns up twice, differing only by the number or placement of periods, it is pretty certainly a spammer.

davereid

#Drupal tip: always write your module's update functions as if your module is disabled, because Drupal still runs them if it is disabled.