Ireland

Hi guys,
I have become plagued by a mystery spammer - see //drupal.org/user/425309 who has got onto my sites forum on several occassions and posted literally hundreds of posts on the pills he is selling from america. He even had the cheek to leave his profile which I was able to track. Is there any way to report him for this, let alone the fact he is doing it on his drupal profile as well?

I'm working on an artist's network here in Ireland. Artists blog as part of a research project looking at artists' practice. There are also site updates, news, links, etc.

One of the concerns the artists have is attribution on their posts which appear in the RSS feed.

I tried making some widgets based on the feed, and building custom RSS feeds with views.

How can I get the post author's name on the feed? Ideally, I'd like to use their profile>first_name and profile>last_name instead of the username.

Thanks for any leads.

Hi all,
Some more basic PHP help requested [I know, I really should go to a PHP forum for this stuff :-)]

For a vocabulary with only one term allowed, taxonomy module can return you that information via
http://api.drupal.org/api/function/taxonomy_node_get_terms_by_vocabulary
.
That returns something like this
<?php
#
... (Array, 1 element)

*
  125 (Object) stdClass
      o
        tid (String, 3 characters ) 125
      o
        vid (String, 1 characters ) 3
      o
        name (String, 6 characters ) Dublin
      o

Does anyone know of academic institutions offering classes or courses which cover Drupal?

Both face to face and/or online?

NB: Not courses using Drupal as a medium, rather: Drupal as the subject matter.

I would love to hear from lecturers who are planning courses, or who have taught Drupal in their courses. I would like to see examples, how they fit in to the existing academic programmes in their institutions, how they promote it, and what the outcomes have been.

Thank you!

Hi all,

I need to do a simple filter to remove some odd character that get imported into my nodes [bulk import].

The characters are

ºº

and I need to replace them with a
<br />.

I've built a little filter module, which will do the trick, but my regex skills are , well, non existent.

I've tried

Can anybody help?

Alan

Hi all,

Myself and Stephane have agreed that we will organise the next Ireland Drupal meetup .

Subject to confirmation, the venue will be DERI building at NUI, Galway.

The proposed date is Saturday April 4th 2009.

We've just thrown this out now, so people can plan early,
[and raise objections early too if needs be :-) ]

More details in due course.

Regards
Alan

Securing the drupal files directory

Hi everone, im having a bit of a nightmare securing the /files directory of my drupal site from google. I have lots of important user information in here (i.e. 000's of users CS's with contact numbers, address etc) that google is searching and indexing like mad on me.

I thought I had this secured taking the following methods:
1) robots.txt file - Disallow: /files/ and also

no CV's

Disallow: /files/
Disallow: /files/.doc
Disallow: /files/.doc$
Disallow: /files/.pdf*
Disallow: /files/*.pdf$

Hi everyone!

First off, thanks to everybody who made it to the Drupal Ireland meetup today. It was great to see so many people, especially so many new Drupal users! I hope to see you again at the next Drupal Ireland event, which I'm sure will be even bigger and better!