Questions tagged [drupal-6]

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Drupal 6 is the Drupal version released on February 13, 2008.
It will be officially supported until Drupal 8 has reached its first official release. After that bugs and security issues will no be longer be fixed for Drupal 6.

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Requirements

  • Web server: Apache, Nginx, or Microsoft IIS
  • Database server: MySQL 4.1 or higher, PostgreSQL 7.1
  • PHP: PHP 4.4.0 or higher (5.3 recommended)

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Drupal, a question about customizing modules

I've just started to create my own modules to make my custom functions such as hook_form_alter() etc... Now I was actually wondering how can I use custom modules to make small changes to some modules. For example, consider the View module, I want to…
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Drupal Private file sytem to Public

Is it possible to switch from a private filesystem to a public one in Drupal. If so how would you do this? /admin/settings/file-system says Changing the download method will modify all download paths and may cause unexpected problems on an existing…
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Drupal: specify the search engine description summary from back-end?

Is there any way to write in the Drupal back-end the text to display in the search engine summaries? Currently, the beginning of my home page (usually menus...) is displayed. I would like to add a description instead. Thanks
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Drupal: remote development with Eclipse

What's the best solution to develop Drupal remotely on a development server, using Eclipse ? I found this: http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/ Is this the best way to do it ? And above all, am I going to have some limitations ? thanks
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Drupal search on content from username

I have a drupal site (d6) where the client would like to be able to search for content from a given user - at the moment a search for "Fred" will turn up any nodes that mention Fred, but none that are by him. There don't seem to be a lot of…
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How do I dynamically set the active menu item?

For example, I have "node/31". And I want drupal to set menu active item to "galleries/lastgallery" if node/31 is viewed. How to do it? nid == 31)…
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Create a custom node tab with a custom path

Is there anyway I can customize the paths to a node's tabs? When using either pathauto or hook_menu_alter, I can change the path to the node view to from node/node_id to, well pretty much anything, but let's say xyz/node_title. The node tabs,…
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Modules for Laying Out Content-submission Forms

In reviewing Drupal layout modules, I'm left with the impression that while many exist for formatting existing content (e.g. Panels, Views and Display Suite), there are very few (if any) that focus on changing the layout of content-submission forms…
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Creating content in a block in Drupal 6

By default for creating content a new page is opened. I want to do this inside a block. A block where there will be some fields like title body taxonomy terms and a create content button. How can I do this?
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Drupal: $form['#redirect'] = FALSE; doesn't work

I've tried to change the redirection when I submit my edit-node form, by addming the following line to my template.php file, in my theme $form['#redirect'] = FALSE; I'm sure the template.php file works well because I have other lines in which I…
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Limit frontblock to display articles/stories only in Drupal

I am new to drupal, so sorry for this noob question, but I was wondering how to display articles only in the central column. Currently there are also blog entries, etc and I would like to get rid of them. I have a Views plugin installed but I am not…
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Drupal 6: display CCK Field value with php in views_customfield

SORTED http://drupal.org/node/467190#comment-2068324 Hi friends, I've spent all day to find but can't find :( How can I display CCK Field value with php in views_customfield? I tried the ones below, but no…
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Drupal 6: best practice for changing contributed module's JavaScript

I've a question about how to customize drupal modules avoiding hacks. Let's say I've downloaded Lightbox2 module and I want to change the javascript file to display differently my lightbox. At the moment I'm modifying the Lightbox2 module, so I…
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Drupal get a CKK field from a node object

I am using the Rules module to send an email. I need to include a CCK field from my node in the email. The rules module provide a $node object. How do I get from this object to my field so I can output it in the email?
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Creating "ON/OFF News Links" functionality for a block created with View Module

I'm a drupal newbie who needs some advice... I have a news list block at homepage, created with View Module. It is listing all added news' title and link. Everything is cool so far. Now I need to add an ON/OFF option at admin side for homepage news…
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