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Drupal is the CMS that this site runs on. This section will very likely grow (albeit at a sedate pace) over the next few months, along with the site :)

There is also a forum available for your feedback and participation..

I am a pretty active contributor to Drupal's development process and maintain a few modules as well.

Useful Stuff

  • Drupal Database Dictionary: Yes, it is alliterative and a mouthful, but will very likely prove to be invaluable when it comes to learning how things work under the hood. Under heavy construction, and any input (via the forum) will be useful :)

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Updates for the day

Submitted by Karthik on 2 May, 2005 - 20:37
  • Added Subscription Module - Allowing users to subscribe to posts and threads. Disabled the option to subscribe to categories for the time being.
  • Added Quote Module - This allows the user to quote a previous post in his reply/comment.
  • Updated secondary menu to reflect changes.
  • Added minimum word counts for certain content types. Set all autheticated users' stories/pages to go into the moderation queue by default.
  • Updated To-Do page :)

That's about it methinks,
-K

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More updates and Taxonomy 101 ;)

Submitted by Karthik on 2 May, 2005 - 02:06

Found and fixed default content creation permissions for authenticated users. They will be able to add content that will need to be approved.. (i.e. moderated posts). Blogs and forum posts are not moderated.

Read up and added some basic terms for the taxonomy module. I am yet to streamline the heirarchies properly, and am trying to figure out a few things before I do so. Primary among them is a way of restricting access to certain terms in a vocabulary to certain roles.

However considering how little "layman" literature (Most comprehensive articles I've read on the subject seem to enjoy talking about it in terms of Set Theory :S) there is on the web, let me post what I believe is an easy way to understand and get the taxonomy module underway..

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Added Stock Module, fixed menus

Submitted by Karthik on 30 April, 2005 - 18:16

Added a stock quote module that lifts data off Yahoo! Finance. No issues, but I edited the source to allow the block to display preset stocks to anonymous users.

Updated Credits page..

Fixed Secondary menus with a manually added array rather than use the PHPTemplate admin panel (to allow for user-specific menus). The primary and secondary menus are now lists rather than plain strings..

Activated Polls..

Added Archive link in main menu..

That's about it :)
-K

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To-Do List

To Do:

  • While I'm at it look at converting the icky table layout to a completely CSS layout.. This would most likely mean killing the 3 column layout for compatibility reasons..
  • Look at setting up the taxonomies and recategorize all stories in their correct categories..
  • I'm writing a new "mass-categoriser" module for Drupal. This is to easily categorise all existing stories, and to provide a little more manageability for taxonomies in Drupal.
  • Fix Opera and IE layout inconsistencies.
  • Add Adsense block - need to see whether JS is accepted by the default filters or if I should turn 'em off or some such.

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Things to do and stuff like that..

Submitted by Karthik on 27 April, 2005 - 18:37

Immediate to do list:

-Convert site theme from xtemplate to phptemplate

-While I'm at it look at converting the icky table layout to a completely CSS layout.. This would mean killing the 3 column layout, as they are not terribly stable when it comes to cross-browser compatibility.

-Fix the redundant primary and secondary menus

-Look at setting up the taxonomies and recategorize all stories in their correct categories..

-Perhaps set up an FAQ link for the menu, outlining stuff available on the site

...
all I can think of atm,
-K
P.S I've created a To-Do

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PHPNuke To Drupal Migration

While porting this site from Nuke (7.1) to Drupal (4.6.0 final), I had to create a custom script to get the job done. I'm making this available to the Drupal community as there is no other solution available (afaik) at present to accomplish this. This isn't necessarily a pretty solution, just a functional one ;)

The download link is further below this page (change the extension to .php before you run it).

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