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WYSIWYG editor installation

2006-01-24T11:04:00.000-08:00

There are several rich text editors for the Drupal web-site. The most known are: Xinha (former HTMLArea), FCKeditor and TinyMCE. All of them have own pros and cons. Here we'll see how to install the TinyMCE for Drupal.Installation of the TinyMCE moduleTinyMCE module is a proxy between Drupal CMS and TinyMCE JavaScript editor1. Download the TinyMCE module. Direct link to the version 4.6.0 from 15/

Cleaning the URLs

2005-12-08T12:40:00.000-08:00

As you probably noticed, URLs of the default Drupal installation look like http://www.symbianexample.com/?q=node/10. Not a big problem for search engines, but you can easily clean the URLs more to chage them into http://www.symbianexample.com/node/10.1. Make sure that your site is hosted on Apache web server and your hoster enabled the mod_rewrite module. It is true for virtually all the cheap

Drupal tutorial plan

2005-12-05T11:39:00.000-08:00

The follwoing topics will be covered soon:1. WYSIWYG editor installation2. Integration of the inline image upload and source code highlighting into WYSIWIG editor3. Selecting and tuning the site template, theme and color scheme4. Adding the AdSenseWhat has been covered already:1. Drupal installation2. Addition of the inline image upload feature3. Source code highlighting installation. And part 2

Installing source code highlighting. Part 2

2005-12-04T13:20:00.000-08:00

Codefilter module, we installed in the part 1 can be enhanced with the Generic Syntax Highlighter - GeSHi. With the GeSHi in action you can post to Drupal site really nicely coloured source-code.1. Before applying the patch download the Geshi engine itself. (Link to the download page on the Sourceforge)2. Upack it and upload everything, but contrib and docs directories to your site's modules/

Installing source code highlighting. Part 1

2005-12-03T14:14:00.000-08:00

To add the source-code highlighting we will use the codefilter module and patch it with the geshi highlighting engineInstalling codefilterCodefilter module formats everything between the tags so that everything looks like nicely preformatted source code. Not that much, but we'll fix it with the Geshi coloring a bit laterIntalling codefilter is very strightforward:1. Download the

Changing Drupal theme in a few clicks

2005-11-29T12:14:00.000-08:00

Before we make further upgrades to the site, let's make it look a bit prettier. Serious theme selection and its adjustments will be covered later, but the default Drupal theme is too boring.Go to the Administer->Settings, enable the themes you like and set the default one - pushbutton in the SymbianExample case.That's it. From now on, every user can visit his "my account"->Edit and choose one of

Drupal: Integrating the "inline" image upload feature

2005-11-27T13:53:00.000-08:00

Below are the detailed insctructions on how to enable adding image to the Drupal article while typing it. Just like you can do at the Google Blogger. In the future posts, I will show how to integrate it into the WYSIWYG editor, to make the posting process look almost like the Blogger's one.The GoalThe final target for the today's excersise will be to enable the following kind of posting

Try Drupal posting interface yourself

2005-11-22T13:16:00.000-08:00

I gave everybody rights to post on www.symbianexample.com. Just create an account and check the default Drupal "create content" interface. Not very attractive, isn't it? And no option to upload pictures.Now, when everybody can see changes in real time, next step is to try adding the image uploading feature.

How to install Drupal CMS in 3 simple steps

2005-11-21T12:44:00.000-08:00

Update: Try posting to the default Drupal site yourselfA step by step guide on Drupal CMS installation to a cheap hosting.My www.symbianexample.com site is hosted on one of the best cheap hosting services T35.com. Featurewise it's provides every basic feature you can expect from just a "good cheap hosting": Apache, PHP, MySQL, CPanel, SSH and FTP access to your files - this is all Drupal needs to

Feasibility of Drupal as a source code repository

2005-11-15T11:41:00.000-08:00

Update on Nov 21: I installed the Drupal and documented it in a very detailed way with a lot of pictures. So, whoever needs a "getting started" tutorial can use this installation guideThis time I want to try building the web-site on Drupal - a known open-source site platform with a big focus on community-related features. Drupal seems to satisfy my mandatory requirements for non-modifiable code

Community site

2005-11-12T06:17:00.000-08:00

I want to build a community web site - a repository of the source code written for the Symbian operating system. The idea is, that when a person needs to see how this or that feature is actually used, he could go to the community site and search for commented, explained and compilable source code.Whenever I personally need to work with a new feature, I always search for code examples and

Start a web-site

2005-11-12T04:11:00.000-08:00

A week ago the hoster of my www.symbianexample.com had a huge hardware crash. They managed to restore everything, but several MySQL databases. Unfortunately (or should I say fortunately?) symbianexample database was lost and several articles already published there are lost. I was lucky to have local copies on my PC.However, as a matter of fact, I was already disappointed with the Mambo platform