questions

How to encourage readers to share content?

Drupalace — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:10:16 -0800

I am creating a new site whose topic will encourage readers to "share" specific pages' content with other people, by means such as:

* forwarding the page content to others
* pasting the page content into email (or into other sites' forums, comments, etc.)
* pasting the page URL into email (or into other sites' forums, comments, etc.)

I'll also encourage readers to leave comments on pages.

That's all nothing special so far, and nothing that a reader can't do from any generic Drupal page.

What are general methods to enable fields for input by visitors?

Drupalace — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:45:04 -0800

Drupal's many node types are great for making all kinds of content, and CCK multiplies the possibilities many times over.

One thing I can't quite grasp, though: Is there some general, built-in method for enabling individual fields that allow visitors to input data?

To clarify that, let me first note what I'm not talking about:

How to display message (NDA, warning, etc.) before content can be viewed?

Drupalace — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:35:10 -0800

Say a user wishes to view a certain piece of sensitive content. How can we have the site first respond with a notice, before the content can be viewed?

Specifically, I'm looking to have the site respond with a simple NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) before displaying certain nodes (and even then, only to registered users, of course). But I can imagine many more uses: displaying conditions and terms related to the content, displaying an age warning for... er, more delicate content, and so on.

What options to check when exporting database from phpMyAdmin?

Drupalace — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:06:47 -0800

Benevolent correspondent Jason asks:

Which is appropriate to be 'checked' under "structure", when backing up a Drupal database in phpMyAdmin, from the options below?

-Add DROP TABLE
-Add IF NOT EXISTS
-Add AUTO_INCREMENT value
-Enclose table and field names with backquotes
-Add CREATE PROCEDURE / FUNCTION

Why doesn't Google web search work?

Drupalace — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:31:06 -0800

(I asked and answered this question elsewhere on my site, before creating the Question Bank. I'll repeat it here in the Bank for completeness.)

Recap

As described earlier, I've placed many a Google web search block into Drupal sites, using Google AdSense for Search.

https://www.google.com/adsense/search-settings

All to a single end: the blocks don't work. (Hey, consistency counts for something, right?)

How to change page layout for newbie vs superfan visitors?

Drupalace — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:09:20 -0800

I recently read this article on distinguishing between one-time visitor "noobs" vs regular visitor "superfans", to dish up a different page to each.

How to handle bullet indentation in Garland theme's style.css?

Drupalace — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:06:17 -0800

From a CSS amateur:

I have text showing in nodes and in added blocks that makes use of bullets. Especially in blocks, width is limited; I'd like the bullet items lined up all the way to the left, to prevent lines breaking. But Garland gives me some serious bullet indentation.

Scanning style.css, I can't find the appropriate control. I chased down some ideas in CSS resources, and added this to the beginning of style.css:

ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin-left:0px;
padding-left: 0px;
}

Can user choose from multiple TinyMCE multiple profiles?

Drupalace — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:04:55 -0800

With the latest TinyMCE, I finally have pre-5.x TinyMCE functionality restored to my 5.x sites. Where can I send new Porsches to the people responsible? : >

But first, simple questions:

TinyMCE allows setting up profiles. This is great so that top admins can have an advanced profile chock full of buttons, and anon users can have a simple profile with just buttons for the basics (bold, italic, etc.).

Why bizarrely wrong node dates in Recent Block?

Drupalace — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:02:20 -0800

Does anyone know why node dates in a Recent Blocks list would come out wrong? I mean bizarrely wrong: they all come up "36 years 35 weeks ago". They're actually several days old...