Drupal 6 node.save uses different methods for saving taxonomy for different taxonomy types.

For multiple select based taxonomy:

(php)

$nodeObj->taxonomy = array(2=>array(15,19));

(python)

nodeOb['taxonomy']['2'] = [15,19]

For tags based taxonomy:

(php)

$nodeObj->taxonomy = array(
  'tags' => array(
         2=>'military,navy'
   )
);

There is an issue with Drupal 6 menu router rebuild which causes Drupal to time out with 404 pages or internal 500.

The following fix worked for me:

Install Drupal Tweaks, increase php memory, and mysql recommendations etc

http://drupal.org/project/drupal_tweaks

Download the following patches:

http://drupal.org/node/251792#comment-1831346

http://drupal.org/node/317775#comment-1491208

From command line copy patches to your root drupal directory.

cd to your root drupal directory and then apply the patches. Each time you will be asked where the file is for the patch and the actual path to the files to be patched will be provided in the command line. Just copy and paste each file path as presented into the prompt.


cp *.patch /home/drupal_directory/
cd /home/drupal_directory/
patch < no-router-blob-317775-56-D6.patch
patch < lock-251792-163-D6.patch

So in the above text you can see it gives you the path ‘includes/bootstrap.inc’. Just copy and paste that to where it says ‘File to patch:’. For each file it will provide you the correct path to the file assuming you are in the drupal root directory.

The final thing to do is to cp the lock.inc file which is created to includes/

If you’re moving or copying MySQL Binary files be sure to do the following:

• myisamchk –silent /path/to/mysql/data/files/*/*.MYI (check integrity)
• chown -R mysql:mysql /path/to/mysql/datafiles
• chmod -R 0660 /path/to/mysql/datafiles

Here’s an explanation of a desktop setup for Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex.

I instantly thought the banner photo of this blog looked liked New Zealand.  New Zealand flora and fauna have a unique vibe.  Easy setup.    Noted the user of Zend Studio in this post.  I’ve been avoiding PHP lately with a preference for Python.  The Python syntax is nicer than PHP.  I like Komodo Edit and Vim but Zend Studio sounds interesting.

Here is the perfect ubuntu 8.10 desktop setup.

4 more guides:

• Manual Partition
• Visual Guide
• Complete Guide

Multi form “http post” with python.

• Canonical Python Http Post
• Multi part form data.
• With Unicode
• Comprehensive examples

The geniuses over at Dreamhost decided to upgrade their Rails without telling anyone and without providing instructions on how to upgrade older apps meaning hundreds of websites crashing and not working for days.

Here is my fix for the problem.  I included some stuff here that wasn’t included in the dreamhost wiki.

From ssh shell:


cd ~
mkdir .gems bin lib src
mkdir .gems
echo 'export GEM_HOME="$HOME/.gems"' >> .bash_profile
echo 'export GEM_PATH="$GEM_HOME:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8"' >> .bash_profile
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.gems/bin:$PATH"' >> .bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

Now I had to download and manually install an older version of rails:

Check here for manual installation details (http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/GemRails)


cd ~/src
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/43985/rubygems-1.3.0.tgz
tar xzvf rubygems-1.3.0.tgz
cd rubygems-1.3.0
ruby setup.rb --prefix=$HOME
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/12245/activerecord-1.14.4.gem
gem install --local activerecord-1.14.4.gem
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/12269/actionpack-1.12.4.gem
gem install --local actionpack-1.12.4.gem
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/12251/actionmailer-1.2.4.gem
gem install --local actionmailer-1.2.4.gem
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/12254/actionwebservice-1.1.5.gem
gem install --local actionwebservice-1.1.5.gem
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/12257/rails-1.1.5.gem
gem install --local rails-1.1.5.gem
cd ~/.gems/bin
vim rake

Now you need to add the following line:


require 'rubygems/gem_runner'


below:


require 'rubygems/


Now finally:


cd ~/railsapp
rm -rdf vendor/rails
rake rails:freeze:gems


Now if you get issues you’ll have to run –trace


rm -rdf vendor/rails
rake rails:freeze:gems --trace


Also visit here if this doesn’t work.

Joomla 1.5 has an interesting quirk with Placehere Content Item Module.

If you assign a template to a category or section menu item and you do not have articles which are part of that category as menu items, the article pages will also use the template assigned to the category or section.

If you then add an article as a menu item it will use the default template instead of the assigned template.

Place Here Placehere Content Item Module Joomla 1.5

Drupal does not show the correct $node->path when a user is not authenticated in some drupal pages.

Check here for patches for this empty url problem.

Recurring subscription payments in Ubercart are covered by this module.

There is also this subscription module.

Some nice candidates for Serif siFR Flash Fonts are:

• Serif Bold (Standard Gimp Linux)
• Utopia
• DejaVu Serif Bold
• Courier 10 Pitch Bold