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Just over a month ago, we announced that we opened up editing rights to much of the handbooks for all users on Drupal.org. Our one month trial period is over and the Documentation team has decided that overall it has been a success. We have seen many more edits and fixes in the handbook and, while we did see some limited mess to clean up, occurrences of vandalism (or playing around) were relatively uncommon. We feel, at this time, that open editing is a significant benefit to our handbooks. We have decided to leave open editing in place, with no further defined trial periods. Keep editing away!

In addition to helping out with fixing pages, we also need many eyes on the edits themselves. Anyone can review recent edits and check out the diffs. If you notice something awry about an edit, you can simply fix it by editing or, if you are a member of the documentation team, you can select the "revert" operation from the Revisions tab to undo the change.

This process did raise other discussions related to various improvements we could make to help track edits and thoughts about how the new page creation management, versus editing, could be improved. Feel free to join in those ongoing tasks and discussions. The next IRC meeting will be tomorrow, November 20 at 18:00 GMT (1 p.m. EST, 10 a.m. PST) and all are welcome. For more info on documentation activites and projects, check out our group.

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This module started out as a simple means of configuring the display of the advance search form. A few features have been added since thanks to the contributions of others. There is also the option of selecting which node types not to index. This gives more control over the content that can be searched to those who need it.

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Tags: drupal, modules, search, configuration, advanced, forms, index

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Team Lullabot is really excited to unveil O'Reilly Media's first Drupal book, Using Drupal, due out next month. (BTW, that's a dormouse on the cover. :)) The book is written against Drupal 6.

Our motivation for writing this book was that most peoples' first experience with Drupal involves getting it installed successfully, but then being left with the question, "What next?" Using Drupal is all about answering this question. It shows in a practical, hands-on way how to combine over thirty of Drupal's contributed modules to build Drupal websites that can do things ranging from product reviews to event management to e-commerce, all through configuration with as little coding as possible. You can also think of it as a field guide to CCK and Views, since almost all chapters build on those base modules.

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RiffTrax.com is an innovative new site featuring the hilarious DVD commentaries of Michael J. Nelson - Star of the legendary Mystery Science Theater 3000! At RiffTrax.com, you can download Mike's feature-length commentaries and listen to these "RiffTrax" in sync with your favorite, and not so favorite DVDs. It's like watching a movie with your funniest friend.

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Tags: drupal, ubercart, case studies, tv, download, mst3k

This defines two custom PHP conditions and one custom PHP action and is activated when an Übercart product purchase is complete. this does allow a user to purchase more than one ticket but signs the user up only once (as the signup module currently only allows one signup per user).

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Tags: workflow, drupal, ubercart, tutorials, events

This module allows site administrators to provide coupons for discounts during the checkout process. Coupons can be limited to x number of uses, applied only to orders with minimum amount values, restricted to either retail or wholesale users (via user roles/permissions), restricted to individual user accounts. Coupons can be either a dollar value or percentage of the order total.

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This module works in conjunction with the payment checkout pane using the order total preview to present a "Free order" payment method to customers when their order total drops to $0.00 or less. By default, this method will be hidden, and server side verification of an order total will be used to prevent customers from gaming the system.

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turns an event content type (from the event module) into an Ubercart product. Only one node is created but has attributes of both content types, that is it appears in the event calendar and can be added to the shopping cart. Product attributes were trimmed to include only those necessary for an event. The admin area includes an option for creating content types other than the default 'event' content type as paid events.

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Tags: drupal, ubercart, events, products, modules

CCK has been significantly reworked for Drupal 6, both to add new functionality and to provide stronger code and APIs. We've tried to respond to many of the things that were often requested but were difficult or impossible to do in the Drupal 5 version: streamline the process of creating fields, use drag-n-drop to reorganize fields and values, provide a user-friendly 'Add more' button for multiple values, give developers an API and more tools to customize CCK behavior, and provide more documentation.

Many of the things you see in the latest code would not have been possible without all the new Drupal 6 and Views 2 features. Drupal 6, CCK 2 and Views 2 make a great combination!

• Project page
• CCK 6.x-2.0 release notes (people upgrading from previous RCs should read this).
• Download CCK 6.x-2.0 - Fresh from the maintainers: 6.x-2.1 bugfix release

Important: This release fixes a (minor) security issue that was present in the previous RC releases.
See the Security Annoucement for more informations.

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• Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-2008-069
• Project: Content Construction Kit (third-party module)
• Versions: 5.x, 6.x
• Date: 2008-November-5
• Security risk: Minor
• Exploitable from: Remote
• Vulnerability: Cross site scripting

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Drupal.org will undergo a scheduled maintenance period Saturday, Nov. 8th, 02:00 GMT. Barring problems, the maintenance should take about 15-30 minutes.

NOTE: Maintenance is complete, and took about 25 minutes. Everything was accomplished without issue.

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A year after answering Dries Buytaert's call for Drupal book authors, Aaron Winborn is pleased to announce the publication of Drupal Multimedia, which is now available! Packt Publishing, known for their support of Open Source projects, will donate a portion of the book's royalties to the Drupal Association.

The book teaches the best practices and contributed modules for integrating Images, Video, and Audio into your site. Written for Drupal 6, the book assumes you are a developer, themer, or administrator who needs to embed multimedia. It makes heavy use of Content Construction Kit (CCK) and Views 2, and offers demonstrations of the various modules required for the task.

The book helps to answer common questions, such as when to use Image or ImageField, how to leverage the power of FileField, and how to override theme functions to display multimedia content the way we need it.

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Wouldn't it be great if adding articles and images to your website was as easy as sending an email. It can be, here is a quick tutorial on how to add this functionality to your site. Firstly you need to setup a unique email account that the site can use eg website@YourDomain.com. Whatever gets sent to this email account (from approved users) will be published automatically on the site, any spam or non authorised users will be ignored - clever! Now download and install the following: http://drupal.org/project/mailhandler http://drupal.org/project/mailsave (enable Mailsave & Mailsave to CCK Imagefield)

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Tags: drupal, email, post, modules, tutorials, howto, photo, automatic, mobile

The Drupal Association today announced that Drupal has won two prestigious Packt Publishing 2008 Open Source CMS Awards this week - the Overall 2008 Open Source CMS Award and the Best PHP Open Source CMS. This marks the second consecutive year that Drupal has won Packt Publishing’s Overall Open Source CMS award. In addition, on Monday, Packt Publishing recognized leading Drupal contributor Earl Miles as a 2008 Open Source CMS Most Valued Person (MVP).

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For the third year in a row, Drupal has been nominated for a Packt Publishing Open Source CMS award. Packt Publishing is announcing winners all week. Today they announced the 2008 best PHP open source CMS.

The Award for the best Open Source Content Management System written on a PHP/MySQL platform is today announced as Drupal. Receiving $2,000 as the judges’ and publics favourite, Drupal finishes ahead of Joomla! and CMS Made Simple, who finished on equal points as joint runners up and collect $500 each.

Drupal won this award in both the popular vote and the judges selection. The judges cited improvements to installation, updates, breadth of features in modules, and how Drupal handles errors in these processes. Of special note was Drupal's use of social features and how those features integrate with web content management. Of course the final advantage Drupal had was the "large and hugely supportive community". This award belongs to everyone in the Drupal community for helping each other and particularly new users.

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This morning Earl Miles, also known as merlinofchaos, was named one of the 2008 Open Source CMS Most Valued People. Earl won specifically for his contributions to the Drupal project.

What is particularly exciting about this award is that Earl is the third Drupal community member to win an award for their contributions to the Drupal project this year. Bryan Ruby said it best.

What I found interesting is that most of the MVPs for projects were the projects' lead/founder. Perhaps that says something about Drupal truly being community driven.

Please congratulate Earl on a well deserved award for his contributions and leadership to the Drupal project. You can read Earl's response on his blog Angry Donuts.

This module provides static page caching for Drupal 4.7.x and 5.x (there's a 6.x version in the works), enabling a very significant performance and scalability boost for heavily-trafficked Drupal sites that receive mostly anonymous traffic.

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• Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-2008-068
• Project: Localization client and Localization server (third-party modules)
• Versions: 5.x, 6.x
• Date: 2008-October-22
• Security risk: Moderately critical
• Exploitable from: Remote
• Vulnerability: Cross site request forgery

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• Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-2008-067
• Project: Drupal core
• Versions: 5.x and 6.x
• Date: 2008-October-22
• Security risk: Less Critical
• Exploitable from: Local/Remote
• Vulnerability: Multiple vulnerabilities

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