triDUG

Only local images are allowed. Our mission is to connect Drupal users in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, North Carolina and surrounding areas. We get together monthly for presentations, site demonstrations, and hack nights. Our goal is to help new Drupal users get up to speed, foster the development of existing Drupal designers and Developers, and contribute to the larger Drupal community. The Research Triangle has a big concentration of technical folks, universities, and start-ups and we want to expose as many people as possible to Drupal and all that it offers.

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Find us on IRC at #drupal-nc and on Twitter at TriDUG

Drupal: The Card Game

Posted by Branjawn on January 31, 2011 at 1:30pm

I don't even know what to say. My friend sent this to me.

Players start by playing cards representing modules and then build up their own contributions to those modules with points on colored cards representing each player. These are referred to as "patch cards," since developers fix a module by patching its code.

Players must contribute enough patch cards to make a module available to any player to eventually build a website. They can also "own" that module by being its biggest contributor.

hosting provider

Posted by rotnme on January 31, 2011 at 4:35am

Looking for a new hosting provider that is drupal friendly. Currently using Go Daddy and am fed up and can't wait to dump them. Any suggestions, and how easy would it be to migrate everything to a new provider? Thanks in advance.

production, development, a db for each and settings.php

Posted by Screenack on January 31, 2011 at 2:59am

I maintain a production and development environment. I commonly sync the files and database data and switch the connection string for the environment. For both production and development, the database is only accessible from the hosted machine. Shouldn't this be possible, i.e.,

Development string (If available load and move on. if dev server not available, use the next string)
Production string

Thanks!

update.php

Posted by rotnme on January 23, 2011 at 2:49am

Hopefully someone can shed some light on this. For whatever reason when I click on update.php (home/administer/site building/modules) all that comes up is a blank screen. Not sure why this is and am at a loss as to how to fix it. Thanks in advance.

development lifecycle - dealing with content-ish things

Posted by brant on January 21, 2011 at 9:03pm

I'm about to embark on a new project for a client with an existing 6.x site. For the most part, this project entails building out a significant new chunk of site -- new content types, views, content, etc. As such, I'm wondering what the current thinking is on how best to approach moving that sort of project through the development lifecycle. Ideally, of course, dev would happen on a dev server, test on preview, deploy to production. Is there any way you've found sane to approach moving what is largely content data from environment to environment like that?

Faulty website could cost county $47,000

Posted by Branjawn on January 20, 2011 at 3:12pm

Local news, thought I'd pass along.

Guilford County taxpayers have spent $47,000 on a website so flawed that it may never debut online.
In fact, the site is so full of bugs that county officials said they’re not sure any of it can be salvaged.

Link to actual article at news-record.com

full html

Posted by rotnme on January 14, 2011 at 5:53am

Curious, my site is up and shows fine but when I log in as admin and go to any page in edit, the body shows in code not full html. Before I start fooling with things I thought I would ask.... Thanks in advance.

Drupal/CiviCRM upgrade/unhack contract possibility

Posted by labrown on January 13, 2011 at 9:35pm

Greetings,

I've been asked to source interest in a short term contract to do two things: 1. Update a hacked-upon CiviCRM 2.2.9 install on Drupal to CiviCRM 3.3. 2. Unwind the core hacking and reimplement properly as modules, etc. Yes, I know the mantra, "Don't Hack CORE!". I didn't do it. They hired a developer and he implemented requested changes by hacking the 2.2.9 core files. Ugh.

Bye Christina! Noon January 21st @ Mellow Mushroom in Durham

Posted by afreeman on January 13, 2011 at 5:59am

Start:

2011-01-21 12:00 America/New_York

Organizers:

afreeman

Event type:

User group meeting

It is with much sadness that I'm announcing a going away party for one of our group members. Christina Dulude has accepted a position in the frigid northlands and will be leaving us at the end of the month. Let's send her off in style!

TriDUG Meetup 6:30PM Jan 18th @ Hesketh.com

Posted by afreeman on January 13, 2011 at 5:57am

Start:

2011-01-18 18:30 - 21:00 America/New_York

Organizers:

afreeman

Event type:

User group meeting

Once again I apologize for the late notice, I'm still trying to get it together after the holidays.

January's meetup will be @ Hesketh.com in Raleigh. In celebration of the recent release of Drupal 7 I'll be giving a presentation highlighting the new features in D7 and going over some migration best practices for the early adopters in the group.

As usual doors open @ 6:30 with the evening's presentation scheduled to begin @ 7:00, and yes, Virginia, there will be pizza.

Browser problem with CiviCRM upgrade

Posted by hallman on January 12, 2011 at 3:32pm

I'm trying to upgrade CiviCRM from 3.2.4 to 3.3.2 on my test site. The CiviCRM black navigation bar across the top is broken in some browsers but not others -- the text entry box with the magnifying glass is missing, nothing happens when I click on any of the top menu items, and none of the child menu items display.

Call for help with CiviCRM event registration with parent/child relationship

Posted by isabisa on January 10, 2011 at 8:27pm

Hi everybody,

There have to be some of you who have experience with CiviCRM, right? If so, I am in some desperate need for local help!

I am currently working on finalizing the coding for a pretty big local project that uses CiviCRM to handle hundreds of events and event participants. Many of these events are intended for children, so the parent/guardian will be registering their child(ren) for various events. I have run into a problem that I have been afraid of for a while and have kind of hit a wall because of it. I would appreciate any help or suggestions you can give me!

Visualizing content/user creation

Posted by gallamine on January 7, 2011 at 4:00pm

I'm trying to come up with an easy way of generating analytics for my site. I have Google Analytics, so I know where people are coming from and what pages they're looking at, but I want to be able to visualize when users sign up and when they create content.

Is there an easy way of doing this? Just a simple historical graph of nodes created vs. time would be great. Or users registrations vs. time would be cool.

I thought about exporting tables from the database then processing them in MATLAB/excel, but that's too much work. I want an easy way out!

Any thoughts?

Updating themes via update.module in D7

Posted by Branjawn on January 7, 2011 at 2:02pm

Just a warning, updating a theme via update.php will erase local.css for that theme. Apparently, this is not a bug... but also, there is no warning. Hopefully that will be rectified soon! Just wanted to let others know.

Call for presenters

Posted by afreeman on January 5, 2011 at 7:12pm

It's official: the dust has finally settled from the holidays and with D7 released yesterday we're headed into the new year with a bang. In light of the release and the group expressing interest in D7 I'd like to focus on features, best practices, migration, known issues, etc. over the next couple months.

6.19 to 6.20

Posted by fchandler on December 30, 2010 at 12:06am

I recently updated from D6.19 to 6.20. Installed on one site everything appears okay. Tried another site and I get this on admin page:

By task
By module
Welcome to the administration section. Here you may control how your site functions.
Hide descriptions

And that is it.
I can click on "by module" and see the modules.

Then I checked other admin pages and got these results:

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Page Admin Menu Item displayed on page</th
content Content Mng Read more

D7 upgrade call for help

Posted by Branjawn on December 29, 2010 at 5:37pm

Just seeing if anyone sees something glaringly obvious here, I've been working on this since yesterday. Upgrading D6 to D7:

On non-update pages:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function decode_entities() in /home5/public_html/includes/common.inc on line 1552

On mysite.com/update.php?op=results I get the following:
* Notice: Undefined index: update_success in update_results_page() (line 162 of /home5/public_html/update.php).

Drupal 7 books?

Posted by Branjawn on December 25, 2010 at 7:46pm

So, my father-in-law gave me Using Drupal for Christmas, I already have it though. Wondering if anyone could suggest another good book? He also gave me Cracking Drupal. I was thinking of maybe getting my hands on a Drupal 7 book? Anyone here have any experience or recommendations?

Mass register users, or automate user registration?

Posted by JBstrikesagain on December 25, 2010 at 6:20am

Hi, I am trying to migrate about 160 users from a mailman mailing list to my new site.. I can't find anything searching drupal.org that would allow me to input a list of email addresses and register them all. Would I have to script this myself?

Block-like layout with Views

Posted by Branjawn on December 24, 2010 at 2:22pm

Merry Christmas Eve!

I created a content type called Portfolio. A node of that type has a title (e.g. name of site or theme), url (of that site), image attach (snapshot of said site), and body/description.

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