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Welcome to Screaming-Penguin.com 6.0 (Drupal Powered)

Sat, 01/27/2007 - 20:34 — charlie.collins

As is obvious if you are looking at this page, TotSP has been moved over to the new Drupal powered format.

The move actually took quite a bit of work (migrating over all the 5000+ pieces of content - and users, etc) and there are still a few things that I want to have not present on the new setup, but it was time to just "do it."

The old site will be maintained for a while at - http://old.screaming-penguin.com/main.php (DNS may not have propagated yet - but was changed).

All of the images and other non TotSPCode powered stuff from the old site (such as everything in /info) should be here. As well, all the stories were migrated over, and categorized, and all users that had posted 10 or more stories were migrated. (And the SVN repos maintained on the other server are still around too.)

Also, the old TotSPCode "main.php" has been recreated here, and it does 301 redirects for anything matching main.php?storyid?X over to the NEW drupal /node/x format. This means bots and spiders will not skip a beat and will get permanent redirects - and in the mean time any search results or outside links will still work just as they always did, they will just get redirected to the new stuff.

USER PASSWORDS ARE NOT THE SAME (because passwords are not stored clear text, etc). If you are one of kebernet, boredatwork, andy, jeepmutt, jheimman, billy, trout, cybrhippy, speedracer, slacklove, ipa, or skywalter THEN YOU HAVE AN ACCOUNT ALREADY ON THIS NEW SYSTEM (please do not create another one). You need to contact me to get your password reset for the new system though - ping me via AIM or email and I will send you your password.

Keep an eye on the new site, let me know what you think.

Welcome to 6.0.

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Sat, 01/27/2007 - 21:31 — charlie.collins

After I got all this done, I

After I got all this done, I just realized I forgot the "related links" on old TotSP stories. I dont think anyone has used that feature for a few years, but before then it was popular. Damn. I will create a script to grab the related links and just add then to the BODY of the current Drupal "nodes" with the same titles. TODO
Sun, 01/28/2007 - 12:17 — charlie.collins

DONE (links)

Done.

Sun, 01/28/2007 - 04:05 — charlie.collins

Another TODO

Make the new "main.php" redirector deal with ?pubclass and ?viewclass also. (Map from the old TotSP pubclasses to the Drupal "Category".)
Sun, 01/28/2007 - 10:45 — charlie.collins

DONE (viewclass/pubclass redirectors)

Done.

Sun, 01/28/2007 - 08:23 — romunov (not verified)

Pengin, thank you for

Pengin, thank you for pointing out drupal. It has just made my day. I'm working on a page about butterflies of Slovenia, and this is just what I needed for the new portal!
Sun, 01/28/2007 - 10:18 — charlie.collins

Very cool stuff, glad you

Very cool stuff, glad you found it. And be advised, if it helps, that Drupal can handle all sorts of internationalization and locales - I have not enabled this yet for TotSP, but it is there.

On a more interesting note, what in the world led you to lepidoptera in Slovenia? I am sort of an amateur naturalist (more knowledge about reptiles than insects) and I think butterflies are quite fascinating.

Please let us know the butterfly page once you get it setup.

Sun, 01/28/2007 - 11:14 — charlie.collins

TODO - "pages"

Recreate the "about", "faq", "contact" and so on, which are here as "nodes" (because they were just special articles in the old system, so they got migrated - in old_unpublished category) - as PAGES, then put them in primary links.

Sun, 01/28/2007 - 19:12 — charlie.collins

TODO (pages)

I made lame simple "who/what/where" pages for this, works for now.

Sun, 01/28/2007 - 11:17 — charlie.collins

TODO - input filters

Admin users can use complete HTML and even PHP code as an input format, should really help with posting tutorials to the site. However, old stories that got migrated over, and had custom HTML in them - such as http://www.screaming-penguin.com/node/5677 - seem to have lost the formatting.

When creating a "page" rather than a "story" in Drupal, the formatting works fine - http://www.screaming-penguin.com/node/6975.

And the perms are set to allow admin users to do this with EITHER page or story (and the "story" was manually pasted in after being migrated, etc - just dont work).

Figure out whats up with "story" versus "page" and input filters - and check other migrated content to make sure it looks correct.

Sun, 01/28/2007 - 14:15 — charlie.collins

Input Filters

I got this to work for a few specific stories, such as - http://www.screaming-penguin.com/node/5677.

I cleared the "cache_filter" table, and then edited the record with "full" HTML as the filter. Still, I am not sure why the regular "allowed" HTML tags did not suffice, maybe style attributes? Not sure.

Need to somehow query the database for tutorial type articles and reset all those that use HTML to "full".

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