Wednesday, November 16, 2005

New Drupal 4.6.3 website

I have completed the first client website in Drupal version 4.6.3.
The client is still entering data to get the information on the site up to date, but the configuration and css side of things is complete.

There were a lot of modules that work differently now.
The entire images module has been rewritten and the import_images (for bulk files) has been created into a different module - dependant on the images module. Once installed though I found no poblems with using it once I had the permissions set right. I found that once you have files in the upload folder that you need to change the permissions on the actual image files before using the import module. (CHMOD 777)

The images gallery works a little differently fixing the width between the files and as a result long file names overlap.

The event module has been rewritten. It no longer is a content type but can be attached to any other content type node. Unfortunately I found no way of turning this off individual posts. So I have restricted the events to pages nodes only, and only use pages for events. All other content can be entered without event information. We are using story nodes for content. The remindme module that is dependant on the event module now works on the sidebar in a block and is allows you to set remindme's for the entire site - not just one event. It also has problems recognising other nodes than events and I havent got this working right yet. I found a patch but was unsucessful in modifying the file and getting it to work.
The notify and subscription modules will be the solution I think.
The notes say that the flexinode module that allows you to create customisable nodes is the solution but I haven't tried this yet.

The google sitemap module is a welcome addition.


Posted by: Jethro | 12:05 AM |