Archive for June, 2009
Images not appearing in Ubercart for Drupal
Ubercart relies on the imagecache module to serve it’s images, so this must be installed first, and the PHP GD2 Module activated.
Once this is done the “presets” the settings required by imagecache to know how to handle the images must be defined. This is done automatically by clicking on “store administration” and then the “images” link [...]
You have specified an invalid media URL for Custom URL
Now here’s one for the “Read the manual” and “Bad validation messages cause big headaches”. On setting up a feed import for a Flickr based feed I was unable to import the images correctly (despite being sure I had set up my CCK fields and mappings correctly). Each time I ran the import (using the excellent [...]
Where to find your Flickr user ID (not display name)
While working on a new Flickr/Drupal integration I came up against the problem that I couldn’t find what my actual Flickr user ID was, obviously I knew my screen name but this isn’t what is needed for interations with the API.
the only place I could find it was on the useful information column of the [...]
Text wrapping in Photoshop: An excellent tutorial
Today I found an excellent tutorial to demonstrate how to wrap text in Photoshop. Wrapping text in Photoshop is something I’ve needed to do for a while but never bothered looking it up. So check it out if you want to wrap text in Photoshop.
Simple horizontal (inline) list CSS
A little reminder as to how to achieve a simple horizontal (inline ) list using CSS because I keep forgetting. The key is obviously the display: inline bit.
#mylist li { display: inline; list-style-type: none; padding-right: 20px; }
Item one
Item two
Item three
#mylist li {
display: inline;
list-style-type: none;
padding-right: 20px
}
FTP + SQL2000 DTS – excellent!
For all of us dinosaurs still using SQL 2000, an extremely useful (if you need this of course!) custom DTS task is the SQLDTS FTP Task which “is designed to give you greater control over FTP operations compared to the task supplied with SQL Server 2000″. The ability to FTP text files (in both directions) [...]
sql 2000 DTS ‘cannot open a log file of specific name’
When migrating DTS packages today I came across a problem with DTS log files I had completely forgotten about.
The DTS package seemed to run perfectly but on completion it said ‘cannot open a log file of specific name’ – this revealed itself to be a problem with the packages logging properties which I’d forgotten to [...]
Drupal search index not updating (Says “The index will be rebuilt”)
In early days of experimenting wiht Drupal, mostly pretty good news I have to say, I’m enjoying it’s flexibility and the large number of modules that speed things up!
One problem I just came across was that under admin>settings>search the “Re-index site” button was not working when clicked, it just kept repeating “The index will be rebuilt” [...]
Drupal installation fails at Database configuration
Trying to install Drupal? Failing at the Database configuration stage?
Read the manual!
Or, when you fail to do that properly refer to posts like this:
http://drupal.org/node/484534#comment-1675612
As it says:
default.settings.php isn’t supposed to be “changed” it is supposed to be copied and renamed settings.php
this in sites/default you should have 2 files default.settings.php and settings.php
This is exactly the opposite of [...]
Dynamic robots.txt file with .asp (or coldfusion)
Something I had to do a while back, but have had to repeat recently when setting up new servers is setting IIS to run robots.txt files as if they were a dynamic page. This is because I run a single code base that shows different languages depending on the domain being called. The process for doing [...]