I have 2 websites with similar content types.
Let's say an event-content type with some cck fields in it.
site1: events ( title, body, image )
site2: events ( title, body, image, onsite1)
by the extra field at site2-events i want to give the possibility to the user to post his event on the ( main ) site1.
Site1 and site2 are both on 1 database, although tables from site2 are prefixed.
How can i add content made from site2 to site1?
( Is there an easy way to do this without resorting to sql? I am using the nodeapi at this time to do some extra when an event is submitted. )
Since you say you're already using hook_nodeapi it seems like you could just do:
if ($op == 'insert' && (see if checkbox is checked here))
...then switch to the other site's database, do a node_save, and switch back to the current site's database to let Drupal finish its business.
You might be able to use db_set_active() as Mike-Crittenden describes even if it is within same database, as both $db_url and $db_prefix can be arrays, instead of single strings.
This way you can have the same db_url for both 'default' and 'alternative' db, but use different prefixes to switch between databasees using db_set_active('alternative') and db_set_active() to return to default.
Lots of people use Feed API / Feeds module for this. You can filter by taxonomy terms, content type, whatever you need so that you don't have to import everything from the primary site. Great tool.
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I have a wiki built with drupal, with a taxonomy category Workgroup, assigned to both the users and the articles. I am using apache solr search module with facet api and my end goal is to set up the search so that by default when users search for the articles, only articles from their workgroup are shown.
That is, when they launch the search from a search box, they should get the same results as for /search/site/hello?f[0]=im_field_kb_workgroups%3A4529 (where 4529 is one workgroup id) instead of just /search/site/hello (current behavior) Users should still be allowed to search in other workgroup facets when they want, by removing the checkbox in the facet block.
I have this working almost by hacking the apachesolr module (not recommended I know but really want this to work). In the function apachesolr_search_custom_page_search_form_submit, I have:
// Get the workgroup id
global $user;
$account = user_load($user->uid);
$user_kb_wg_fieldinfo = field_get_items('user', $account, 'field_kb_workgroups');
$user_kb_wg_tid= '';
if ($user_kb_wg_fieldinfo) {
$user_kb_wg_tid = $user_kb_wg_fieldinfo[0]['tid'];
}
// Add the solr filter for this workgroup facet so that by default, search results are
// fetched only from that workgroup.
if ($user_kb_wg_tid === '4529') {
$get['f[0]'] = 'im_field_kb_workgroups:4529';
}
This does the job but the problem is that this relies on the apachesolr search form. I have users coming to the wiki by searching from sites external to the wiki, where the wiki search form is just a simple POST form pointing to the KB domain and the path /search. So this will work only when people are searching from inside the wiki, where I present them the apachesolr search form.
I have investigated some other options:
In my custom module, I implement this hook (without the user workgroup checks for now, for testing):
function kb_hacks_apachesolr_query_prepare($query) {
$query->addFilter('im_field_kb_workgroups', '4529');
}
This filters the results from searches everywhere, but the filter is applied all the time, and users don't get to deselect this or other filters. (in fact, other filters appear only when passing the filter as a GET param like above with f[0])
I also played with the url_inbound_alter hook, but could not figure out how to pass the solr query param as GET. The following did not work.
function kb_hacks_url_inbound_alter(&$path, $original_path, $path_language) {
if ($path == 'search/site/hello') {
$_GET['f[0]'] = "im_field_kb_workgroups:4529";
//$_GET['f[0]'] = "im_field_kb_workgroups%3A4529";
//$path = 'search/site/hello?f[0]=im_field_kb_workgroups%3A4529;
}
}
Is there a way to set GET params from this hook? But even if this had worked, I would still have to figure out how to do this only by default (when the search form is submitted), and not when the filter itself is deselected. Is there a way to detect checkbox changes in the facet block?
Maybe there's another way to do this? I have been stuck here for the last two days and would really appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!
You can add a relationship to the taxonomy term "Workgroup" and use a contextual filter for the current user. In the contextual filters section, you can change the behavior when the filter is not present.
I have a permissions problem in Drupal. I want users to be able to create a certain node type, but there are two different paths I need to give them permissions for to let them do this. The type is content created by a module called isbn2node, and there are two ways to make content through it, each with different paths:
?=node/add/isbn2node-book
?=node/add/isbn2node_book/isbn2node
One has an underscore and the other one has a hyphen. The first path leads to a form that lets users enter information on a book manually; the second path lets them enter an ISBN, searches for it, and populates the form for them based on the results.
I've changed permissions in the People menu so they can add isbn2node-book content manually using the first path, but there isn't an option to let them use the second method. Aliasing the url so it didn't have node/add in the path didn't work either.
Creating a duplicate content type seems like an ugly solution to this; is there a more elegant way to let users access that second path?
A little code in a custom module using hook_node_access should do it.
$node is either a node object or the machine name of the content type on which to perform the access check (if the node is being created then the $node object is not available so it will be a string instead).
So this should do it:
function MY_MODULE_node_access($node, $op, $account) {
if ($op == 'create') {
$type = $node;
if($type == 'book' && $account->uid) return NODE_ACCESS_ALLOW;
}
}
I figured this out, and the issues I was having were specific to this content type. The ISBN2Node module requires users to have the Administer Nodes permission to use its lookup and bulk import features.
There is some extra code for the module's hook_permission and hook_menu sections submitted as a fix in the module's issues thread.
I just think about that, easy to do in non cms site, but in wordpress site... i like to know YOUR approach to that problem
I have a BIG site (200 pages)... and at a lot of place, the info#something.com, the 000-000-0000 telephone and send your check to 123 easy street, Canada...
all that email, telephone, and address... should reside in one place (a post or a var) and when you need to insert it you should used the short code [tel] or [email].... but how...
is there a plusgin that can define var, or a tutorial to do that... do you only have to change it ONE for the whole site..
Any idea is welcome.... now, find and remplace is my friend !...
thanks in advance
You could try the Custom Config plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-configs/
It will allow you to create custom global variables that are contained within the CMS (otherwise you'd be declaring these variables within the template config).
Usage to output a variable onto the page would be something like:
<?=get_config('myVariable','default')?>
I don't know if I'm on the right track but I'm trying to let users of my web site create there own versions of pages on my web site.
Basically I'd like to make our documentation used as a starting point where they just add details and make a new page for themselves in the process.
I have a 'book' content type that I have changed with CCK and a 'client edits' content type that uses a nodereferencefromURL widget to link itself to the book node.
So simple version of what I'm saying is I have a link on my book pages that creates a node using client edits content type. I would like to put some fields on the client edits content type that take the values of some of the fields from the book page it is linked from.
I'm sure I'm missing something as I would have thought someone would have tried this before but I can't even find a hint on how to go about this.
All I really need is a point in the right direction if my current thinking is wrong.
Current thinking is that I use a php script to get the default value for a field on the new node add screen that drags the value for a field from the book I'm linking from.
I'm thinking this is the case because there is an option for default values for the field in cck manage fields that lets you put in a php value to return a default value for your field.
Am I on the right track or is there already a module or process that does what I'm talking about and I'm just too dumb to find it.
This sounds a little strange, are your client edits going to be a diff from the original node or just coppied data?
I would prehaps do it a more simple way, just have book nodes, and have different fields disaply depending on who edits it (enable the content_permissions module). That way you can use the node clone module to create the users copy.
You will need to make a module to contain your custom php code.
I ended up using rules to save information from the user and the cloned node into hidden fields.
One that saved the original node ID into a field when ever you create content of that type unless the url ends with Clone. This means that when you create the clone the original node ID is kept in the field.
That made it easy to use a views argument that took the node ID to make the clone appear along side the original when a user visits the original page.
The second rule trick was to compute a field that saved the "store name" from the profile of the user only when saving clone content.
This meant that there was a hidden field on the clone that stored the info so I could then use another views argument to restrict the view to only people with the same store name in their profile.
I am no good with PHP but I managed to find a snippet (can't remember where) that returns the store name of the current logged in user as the argument.
global $user;
profile_load_profile($user);
return $user->profile_store_name;
...or, in other words, how to create a simple join as I would do in SQL?
Suppose I want the following information:
Just as an example:
a person's full name
a person's hobbies.
His full name is in a (content profile) node type 'name_and_address' and his hobbies are in 'hobbies'.
In SQL, I would link them together by node.uid.
I've seen a bit about using relationships, but that goes with user-node-refs.
I just want the same user from one content-type and the other.
Now how could I get his name and his hobbies in 1 view?
There is a how to here does this do the job?
If not...
Views can be extended with custom joins, filters etc. If you are lucky there will be a module for this already. Some modules even provide their own views plugins.
You can write your own views plugins, although the documentation is a little fragmented.
The other thing that should be noted is that views isn't always the answer. Sometimes writing a custom query and display handler will do what you want with much less hassle.
Look at the relationships section of the view. This allows you to relate (ie join) different types of content (ie tables). It's not especially intuitive to someone used to SQL, but this video explains much of it. http://www.drupalove.com/drupal-video/demonstration-how-use-views-2s-relationships
You could use views_embed_view() in your template files to manually specify where they appear (and by extension render one view right below another).
You could override this function in a custom module (modulename_embed_view($name, $display_id)) in order to selectively edit what data is allowed out to the page.
Ex):
function modulename_embed_view($name, $display_id) {
if (strcmp($_GET['q'], 'node/123') === 0) {
$view = views_get_view($name);
$view2 = views_get_view('second view');
$output = $view['some element'] . $view2['element'];
}
return $output;
}
I know that this is very much a hack - I just wanted to show how one might use php to manually render and modify views in your template files.