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Drupal: how to disable broken module manually

Marianne — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:31:46 +0000

I did something wrong applying a patch to a module. This resulted in a broken site — I wasn’t able to see the Administration page anymore to disable the module (or any page for that matter).

Log on to your server via SSH.

mysql -p

Gets you into mysql.
To see your databases:

show databases;

To pick the drupal database:

use drupal;

Then, substituting the module name for module_name below:

UPDATE `system` SET `status` = '0' WHERE `name` = 'module_name' LIMIT 1;

Finally:

quit;

Drupal form tweaker module

Marianne — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:54:13 +0000

The Drupal Form Tweaker module lets you change the way users can select vocabulary/ category terms when they submit content. By default, this is a dropdown list, which is a bit ugly and especially annoying to use if you want to select multiple terms. With form tweaker, you can set the terms to be presented as radio buttons or checkboxes instead. Much nicer and easier to use.

Note that you set these preferences in Administer → Content type, not in the Category/ Vocabulary settings.

Drupal border-spacing

Marianne — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:09:05 +0000

In my version of Drupal (5.something), with the theme I’m using (B7), if you try to set the distance between table cells using CSS border-spacing, this has no effect. You have to also set border-collapse: separate;

Where to install Drupal themes and modules

Marianne — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:49:08 +0000

In your drupal root directory, you have a directory modules and a directory themes. Turns out this is not where you want to install additional modules and themes. Instead, put them into (below the drupal root directory) sites/all/modules and sites/all/themes respectively (create directories if needed).

R: Delicious statistical-computing recipes at R-Cookbook.com

Marianne — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:32:44 +0000

Just on the R mailing list, more good news for users and wannabe-users of R: R-Cookbook.com is a new community site that offers handy R recipes. Once you register, you can post your own recipes and create a collection of your personal favorites. Looks like someone put Drupal to good use. My only quip so far is that I think they should lose the comma between “delicious” and “statistical-computing”.