drupal

Another 1 hour upgrade for Drupal. More voodoo rain dances required, but this time, the core Update Status checker module doesn't work: enabling it causes all admin pages to blank out.

It's just as well, because I've done most of my updating elsewhere.

@tungtn is where I post interesting articles that I find on Hacker News, and the occasional thought.

I talk with people on Google Buzz. If you've got Gmail, check it out, and feel free to follow.

I think that's about it.

I don't know what the hell is going on, but if I enter "g plus plus" (no quotes, no spaces, plus replaced with plus sign), followed by a space followed by anything, my own blog gives me a 403 permission denied error!

I'd lodge a bug report, but to whom? Drupal, which has a million layers which may or may not be responsible for this? The GeSHi plugin for Drupal? GeSHi itself? The old, outdated PHP 4 installation? I don't have the will to debug yet more web crap, so I'll just post "around" it, if that's even possible.

Incidentally, that's why I haven't posted in a while: this error in a long blog post fooled me into thinking I couldn't post to my own blog. I'll post something I've kept on the back-burner right away.

ATTENTION: If you have an account with one of these sites, you can sign up at my site (and in fact any Drupal site) without a username or password:

AOL

openid.aol.com/screenname

Blogger

blogname.blogspot.com

Flickr

www.flickr.com/photos/username

LiveDoor

profile.livedoor.com/username

LiveJournal

username.livejournal.com

Orange (France Telecom)

http://openid.orange.fr/

SmugMug

username.smugmug.com

Technorati

technorati.com/people/technorati/username

Vox

member.vox.com

Yahoo

yahoo.com

WordPress.com

username.wordpress.com

That's from the official list, so check that for the most recent info. There's also another very important one that ain't there:

Google

https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id

If you have an account at one of these places, you've got an OpenID.

What does that mean for me?

Looks like I found the perfect way to get those project pages to show the correct breadcrumbs.

Before, each project page was listed under the Projects section, but when you clicked on those pages, there was no breadcrumb trail leading back to that section. Some Googling I did didn't seem to shed any light onto it.

And then I stumbled across the Custom Breadcrumbs module.

I just implemented a tag list for the site, just like at the old Blogger site.

Trying to do this using views was a massive pain and wholly unsuccessful, so I turned directly to my best skill: programming. Blocks in Drupal allow insertion of PHP.

But it wasn't working. Anything I inserted would appear as code directly on the page. Then I realised I had to enable the PHP input filter module. Ugh.

Anyway, with a hint from Google, and peeking into the database schema myself, I was able to drum up this little baby.

Damn. I just had a helluva time setting up the projects section.

The site is meant to be arranged so that there's three major elements:

1. the blog,
2. the method of feedback (forums in this case), and
3. the projects section.

First, I tried putting all projects into a projects sub-menu, which I would then link to in the primary links menu along the top. Only problem?