Schedule
Wednesday, May 6th
6:30pm - 9:30pm
6:30 - 7:15 - Mingle time!
7:15 - 8:30 - Presentations, Q & A
8:30 - 9:30 - Extra mingling, collaboration and ask-for-help time.
New Location!
I'm happy to announce that the Triangle Drupal Users' Group is moving up in the world! The Coalmarch offices were almost too small the first time we hosted this group, and we've steadily gained a few participants every week, so it was time to find a larger venue that could not only address our growing numbers, but also the growth in diversity of our members (beginners, experts, programmers, designers and end-users). If we all feel that the new space is appropriate for us, it could become our new home.
The Research Triangle Park Headquarters
Our new venue is located RTP, which is equally convenient for all users in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area and is on Davis Drive, just a few feet North of I-40. Very accessible!
Google Map
http://www.rtp.org
RTP Headquarters Info and Floor Plan (PDF)
At the new venue, we have up to two rooms available to us, giving us the option of having one large meeting, or two smaller meetings/presentations with a common mingling area.
Bring your friends and be sure to tell everyone that we have plenty of space now!
Presentation - A
Allen Freeman(afreemannc) will be presenting:
Drupal Events Calendar
A detailed demonstration on how to implement a feature-rich events calendar in Drupal 6.
- CCK content types & node reference
- Location + gmap
- Views + Calendar, Views + Location, Views relationships, Views arguments
- (optional depending on time) setting up multi-axis user reviews with Fivestar and Node Comment
Time: close to an hour if there are questions.
Target skill level: beginner to intermediate
Presentation - B
It seems that Allen's presentation is going to appeal to a wide audience and all the other presentations suggested in my last post were for similar skill-levels, so for now we're just going to reserve the second space for collaborative, hack-night-like activities. If there is anyone who is interested in seeing or presenting on a specific Advanced-level topic (or perhaps a design or end-user related topic), please let us know!
Comments
Thanks Sheena and Coalmarch!
Just wanted to give a shout out to Sheena and the guys at Coalmarch for finding us such a new, fantastic location. They've put a ton of work into finding us this spot. Thanks a bunch!
file ownership
I have recently learned that the reason why I can't do things like delete a file from my developmental drupal site is that I no longer own the files.
from Plesks file manager...
toss 4.00 KB rwx rwx r-x April 20, 2009 apache apache
It should be more like
anim0205-1_e0.gif 16.0 KB rw- r-- r-- Jan 25, 2009 swordedge psacln
So I created a node that contains
<?php
// File name and username to use
$path = "/subdomains/swordedge/httpdocs/sites/default/files/toss" . $file_name ;
$user_name = "swordedge";
// Set the user
chown($path, $user_name);
// Check the result
$stat = stat($path);
print_r(posix_getpwuid($stat['uid']));
?>
I modified that code from the chown command description on the php site. I was linked to that site by the support guy at the host.
For an output, I get...
Page php file system commands has been updated.
I am guessing that I need to set a permission somewhere but I don't know. How did I lose ownership of half the files in my files directory anyway? I would like to get ownership back but since the site is "supposed" to go live next weekend... I might be able to avoid problems with the new host. I am suspecting it is something drupal did because one of the dirs, it created and it is apache apache.
php vs. ftp
php chown and chmod are not recursive and run as the apache user so they won't change anything they don't own and did not create.
ftp should be a happier case fileZilla, for example will let you change permissions and it will do so recursively
to get through the night, i suggest using ftp to change sites/default/files to 0777 recursively
hotdrupal.com has collocated servers starting at $50/month and Steve is knowledgeable and helpful guy. I charge that much for linux accounts with support.
Jim
Php vs ftp
when I try to chmod 777, it says
Command: SITE CHMOD 777 toss
Response: 550 CHMOD 777 toss: Operation not permitted
chmod 777
should only be done on the directory sites/default/files recursively
apache security on shared machines sucks
either permissions are to strict and you get in your situation or they are too loose and everybody can read everything including /sites/default/settings.php
you are caught in the tug of war between yourself and apache
you need one of
1) dedicated server
2) virtual private server
3) friendly sysadmin to fix these problems
Jim