The next Western Mass Drupal Meetup will be on Tuesday, November 11.
Location:
Webster 102 on Amherst College campus
https://www.amherst.edu/users/H/dhamilton/drupal_meetings
Many thanks to David Hamilton for again arranging the space.
AGENDA:
1. Organic Groups - discussion on how it works. http://drupal.org/project/og
2. How to deal with development versus production sites? If you do changes on a development site while in the meantime content is constantly added to the production site, how do you get both sites in sync when ready to go live with changes? How best to sync MySQL databases?
AFTER MEETING NOTE:
Found this great article after the meeting: http://drupal.org/node/199771
3. How to automatically backup a Drupal site: database and files. What methods are there? Do these work well: http://drupal.org/project/backup http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate ?
AFTER MEETING NOTE:
At the meeting these were recommended:
http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate (to backup the database)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/ (to backup the database)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync (for backing up the database backup file and other files)
http://www.navicat.com/ (MySQL manager)
Also mentioned during the discussion was http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpshell (“A convenient interface to execute shell-commands”)
4. Using Google Maps in Drupal; GMap module: http://drupal.org/project/gmap
5. How to use hook_form_alter(). Excellent resource: http://www.lullabot.com/articles/modifying-forms-5-and-6
6. Updating Drupal sites and using http://drupal.org/project/update_status Also, can you jump versions (e.g. 5.1 to 5.12)? Does it depend? How can you tell? If you have tons of updates to do, should you backup the database between every one?
Comments
Sharing a calendar on multisite configurations?
Actually, this is a request for any help in getting a calendar to share calendar event info in a multisite configuration.
What kind of multisite?
Hi Jim, what kind of multisite? Regular Drupal multisite or the Domain Access module, or other (if there is one)?
Drupal Multisite
Rick,
I mean a drupal multisite, where sub-sites are located under the /sites/directory, yet each has it's own tables (via table prefixes) in the database.
Thanks,
Jim
Hi Jim, Sorry I think I forgot to reply to this.
I'm afraid all I can tell you is what you already know I'm sure, which is that you would have to figure out what tables would have to be shared by all sites in order to do this. I think it's a lot of tables and not sure it is even doable other than sharing the entire database between all sites. If this is still an issue for you you could bring it up at the meeting Tuesday.
Looks like fun...
I really hope to be there. We do have a new baby so you never know what will happen with my schedule.
Alfred
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it was a good meet
And I was glad to be there.
Thanks for coming!
I think we had 15 people last night - that's great!
Next meeting tentatively Tuesday, December 2, pending confirmation from David that we can use the conference room that night. I will post an event at that time. That would get us back onto the first-Tuesday-of-the-month schedule we had been on.
Thanks David!
For next meeting we talked about the following. Comment below or contact me if you have other ideas.
How to use Subversion: Josh Beauregard (http://www.sanguisdevelopment.com)
Debugging (maybe): Jim Skowyra (http://www.reynoldsplantation.com/)
SMS Text via Drupal: I will look into presenting this, but if anybody knows it already, go for it - Rick
Thanks,
Rick