Due to the occasional small (or large) fluke, your entire Drupal website can become inaccessible because of a module. This is how you solve the problem: disable the specific module by altering values in your Drupal database. In our case, we'll use phpMyAdmin, but you can use whatever utility you prefer for database manipulation. So,…
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Microsoft’s HealthVault Revolution
Microsoft recently announced the Beta release of its HealthVault platform. The platform is aimed at helping people better manage their health information. The information available from Microsoft is pretty cryptic, but basically it looks like the service is a massive database for storing and sharing health information. Some are perturbed by the possible privacy issues,…
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XHTML Valid Nested-List
So, I began testing all of my sites for XHTML compliance. I noticed that some of my nested lists were not validating. They all displayed properly, but (*gasp*) they weren't valid XHTML. Here's what I found the problem was, and the resulting solution: (more…)
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Control Drupal Forum Access by Role
We are developing an online community with forums which need to be private (only accessed by the members of the community). Unfortunately, the forum.module for drupal allows anyone with 'access content' privileges to access the forums. Obviously, we want visitors to be able to view the pages and almost all other content, but we want…
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