How do I do X?

Hello all. Sorry I can't make the meeting in Ames this evening...I have a school board meeting and a user training session afterward. Hoping to make the next meeting in October.

I do have a problem that I can't find a solution for so I thought I would toss this out to the group and see if anyone can suggest a fix.

The issue is with Rich Text editing in Drupal 6. Lately I've had similar experiences with different editors (FCKEditor, CKEditor and TinyMCE) on different hosts and sites (about a 8-10 different circumstances/systems). The problem is that when I edit rich text in a WYSIWYG field (like a node body field) my edits are not always saved unless I switch to plain text or source display BEFORE clicking Save.

After witnessing some dramatic CPU spikes, I've discovered that Views' ajax paging sends requests via POST instead of GET (very large POSTs!), preventing them from being cached by Varnish and the like.

Evidently, I'm not the only one that has encountered this but I haven't found any solutions.

Any ideas?

OK, it's almost July so I'm entitled to post a new 'question of the month', right? Here goes...

I've recently started a couple of new Drupal 7 sites to complement my host of D6 sites. Since I'm cheap, I installed D7 onto the same VPS where my D6 lives. So far, so good.

I'm looking to use Drupal in multi-site mode in both versions so I now have a folder structure which includes /drupal/sites and /drupal7/sites. All of the subdomain sites I've created in this fashion are working. For the sake of an example I'm going to use fictitious domains abc.com and xyz.com.

Just signed up for DrupalCorn Camp 2012 (and I have a newbie who might attend with me...still in negotiations on that) and I thought I would post my "How To?" question for the month...

I have a D6 page generated using Views and it consists of a page view with two attachment views that do some calculations and present the desired output. At the bottom of the page I have a mailto: link that builds a simple text e-mail message with links back to a printer-friendly copy of this page.

I need to use the Commentsblock module, but it is turning out to be pretty buggy. I've got an issue in the queue with a patch for comments not displaying for anonymous users.

Now I've got a second issue posted about how paging is broken, but I'm stumped on how to fix it so wanted to see if anyone else had an idea.

Here is the issue: http://drupal.org/node/1513910

My question is: Is there a way to prevent the comment_node_view function from executing?

Im converting a a site from D6 to D7 and one of the major reasons for doing so was to use the private file system feature of D7. This is supposed to be a departmental only site so they would like some of the file to be private.

in D6 they were public and I just made views by using filters on file:path for views of specific directories and things worked great. Id specify something like path contains: "document/forms" and Id get just the files in that directory.

in D7 with private files all I get for paths are things like: private://Customer List_Feb 8 2012.xlsx

Hi folks. I'm looking for a bit of quick help with a CSS issue I'm having in one of my Drupal sites. The root of the problem is that I've learned CSS from experience only, and never really understood precisely how to get the result I'm looking for.

Greetings all.

I have what I believe to be a javascript issue, but since I know very little about javascript I can't be sure. Help!

A client (non-profit) of mine purchased a very inexpensive calendar widget recently and asked me to add it to their website. I copied the code into a block and placed the block where desired on their home page...it worked very nicely. Only problem is it "broke" all the other javascript on that page, so things like Views Slideshow animations stopped working.

Can anybody tell me, in 100 words or less, if I can fix this and how I might do so?

We have a problem where status messages on our pages won't go away, the status area just keeps growing and growing and growing.

For example, I just made a change to my user page, and I get a status of "The changes have been saved". If I then save the page again, the status message shows:
* The changes have been saved
* The changes have been saved
If I then modify another page, I get:
* The changes have been saved
* The changes have been saved
* Page Google Search Results has been updated.

So im trying to theme a node with an image. Seems like a pretty simple basic thing, so Im probably missing something simple here.

Its a custom type for authors withe names, email, address, etc, and a PICTURE.

I can theme all the text fields, they are easy to get like this:

 print $node->field_staff_first_name[$node->language][0]['safe_value'];

but how do I get images? the path doesnt seem to be in $node like it was in D6

In D6 I could do:

 
<?php
 print $node-&gt;field_staff_pic[$node-&gt;language][0][&#039;safe_value&#039;]; 
?>