Adventures & experiences in contemporary technology
My Drupal investigation is currently in hiatus but I did get to exploring the world of modules and adding to the standard ones supplied. Drupal doesn’t have a WYSIWYG editor supplied in the standard package so I went and added one that I have used elsewhere: FCKeditor. Setting wasn’t much of a problem until I encountered the following error: Unknown element of UniversalKey panel. The solution to the problem is to remove the reference to UniversalKey from the configuration file fckeditor.config.js. It took a spot of finding so here it is for posterity and so that I’ll find again…
Drupal has modules (Import HTML and its helper Static HTML together make up one option) for importing static (X)HTML pages into its database and it needs HTML Tidy in order to work. Since I am playing with the thing on Windows, I went out and snagged the version for that OS. Being either lazy or bloody-minded, I tried an XHTML page with PHP code embedded in it and, needless to say, the thing choked. I must try it with plain XHTML instead.
On my other blog, a WordPress one that I have hosted myself, I have added the FireStats plug-in so that I can get some idea how many are paying it a visit. It has definitely been useful. It tells you referrer, operating system and browser information as well as what has been visited. I know that I can look at my server logs to get this information but this is so much easier and it can be extended to non-WordPress PHP-powered pages too.
Hansel and Gretel Breadcrumb is another plug-in that I have spotted but given that the blog is set-up, it didn’t look that useful. If it could be extended to my non-blog pages à la FireStats, that would be a much more useful situation.