drupal

Posterous and single user Drupal blog

Submitted by alex on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 12:19

Posting to Drupal via Posterous requires that the blog module is enabled which is not what you want if you have a single user blog/site. Each new Posterous post will be created using the "blog entry" content type. I only use page and story content types so those entries ends up in it's own blog page.

A quick googling and I found the solution for single drupal users here: http://bmannconsulting.com/2830/web-development/posterous-doesnt-work-dr...

You only need to add a few lines to the blogapi.module and you can also disable the blog module.

Starting from line 187 in the blogapi.module:

...
if ($blogid !== 'blog') {
  if (($error = _blogapi_validate_blogid($blogid)) !== TRUE) {
    // Return an error if not configured type.
    return $error;
  }
} else {
  // change 'article' to your content type of choice
  $blogid = 'article';
}
...

I will initially probably only use Posterous to push photos that I want to upload to my site and flickr at the same time. It's a great feature to be able to do that using email only!

Fix PHP 5.3 timezone warnings for drupal

Submitted by alex on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 03:01

I recently installed drupal 6.14 on Snow Leopard and got these timezone warnings.

warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. 
You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. 
In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. 
We selected 'Asia/Tokyo' for 'JST/9.0/no DST' instead in /Users/<user>/Sites/drupal/sites/all/modules/views/modules/node/views_handler_argument_dates_various.inc on line 67.

Enable clean URLs for Drupal 6.x on Snow Leopard

Submitted by alex on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 02:31

By default clean URLs cannot be enabled on Snow Leopard (Macbook pro) unless one of the following prerequisites is done: