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The library is changed. The publication status is still not right, but the available books should be available and the "On Loan" ones loaned.

Next step: get books that are loaned out into the database.

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Wish it was that easy :). It's commented out and defaulted to 0, so
that's not it. I've run into this problem previously and if I recall it
is some php or apache setting...I just don't recal what it was.

John Van Ostrand wrote:

>Check for a line like the following in /etc/php.ini.
>
>session.use_only_cookies = 1
>
>My guess is that you would set this to 0. If you make changes, restart
>(not reload) apache.
>
>On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 20:59 -0400, Insurance Squared Inc. wrote:
>
>
>>I've just migrated to a new server and an upgraded version of php (now
>>on version 5). My server is maintaining sessions if the user has
>>cookies enabled, but if cookies are turned off by the user, the system
>>won't maintain a session. Real ugly ifyou're trying to log in :).
>>
>>Anyway, it could be something ugly with upgrading from php4 to php5, but
>>I'd stake quite a bit that I've just got some dumb configuration
>>variable set wrong.
>>
>>Any ideas on what would cause php to maintain sessions in cookies, but
>>not if cookies are turned off?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>g.
>>
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tid:51
Check for a line like the following in /etc/php.ini.

session.use_only_cookies = 1

My guess is that you would set this to 0. If you make changes, restart
(not reload) apache.

On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 20:59 -0400, Insurance Squared Inc. wrote:
> I've just migrated to a new server and an upgraded version of php (now
> on version 5). My server is maintaining sessions if the user has
> cookies enabled, but if cookies are turned off by the user, the system
> won't maintain a session. Real ugly ifyou're trying to log in :).
>
> Anyway, it could be something ugly with upgrading from php4 to php5, but
> I'd stake quite a bit that I've just got some dumb configuration
> variable set wrong.
>
> Any ideas on what would cause php to maintain sessions in cookies, but
> not if cookies are turned off?
>
> Thanks,
> g.
>
> _______________________________________________
> KWLUG-Disc mailing list
> KWLUG-Disc@kwlug.org
> http://listserv.kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc

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I've just migrated to a new server and an upgraded version of php (now
on version 5). My server is maintaining sessions if the user has
cookies enabled, but if cookies are turned off by the user, the system
won't maintain a session. Real ugly ifyou're trying to log in :).

Anyway, it could be something ugly with upgrading from php4 to php5, but
I'd stake quite a bit that I've just got some dumb configuration
variable set wrong.

Any ideas on what would cause php to maintain sessions in cookies, but
not if cookies are turned off?

Thanks,
g.

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Testing email / forum integration for KWLUG. Please ignore.
This is a test of a new message tot the mailing list. Does it appear in
the forum?
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Oh my! Look at all the books in our library! Thanks to the secret elves (a.k.a. Michael, Richard, Kevin, and Charles) for entering in all of these.

Unfortunately there are some bugs:
- If non-administrators enter books the status is "on loan"
- The ISBN number is not required (and it should be)
- If administrators add books they have status "not published"
- Navigation of the library is not so good. You click on a book and can't get back the original list of books you had.
- I want to be able to check out and sign in things en masse.

Here are a couple of uneducated opinions about the website, before I forget:

0. I think the "Reviews" session should go. We should move the two reviews in there somewhere else (maybe to somebody's blog, maybe to an "archive" section as stories) and take out the link. I think the personal blog section is the right place to put reviews.

1. I wish we could enter in a lot less information for the library page. Ideally, we would enter in an ISBN number and our module would use the magic of Web 2.0 to find as much of the rest of the fields as it can. Even if this only worked for a limited set of publishers (O'Reilly, say) we would be better off.

Does O RLY have anything to do with O'Reilly?

Image module added for testing.
Add images to your blogs / presentations by using the image and img_assist modules.

• Upload the image using add content / image
• Create / edit your blog entry
• Click Img_assist icon below blog text area.
• Select from images.
• Select filtered or html.
• Insert image.
• Adjust html img tag for positioning, if needed.

I have installed the search box, and run the search index update once, manually. If the cron job is running correctly on Drupal then this post will show up in a search for wireless within 15 minutes. We'll see.

Okay, search and re-indexing works.

The BBCode module has been added. You may now use BBcode tags in your submissions.

I've modified it by adding a new field for presentations. This allows presentations to be linked to meeting agendas. The presentation field is derived from the exisitng field for book nodes.

Everything should be okay. Report any web site problems to the kwlug-discussion list. Site work completed (for the moment) at 2300H21Mar2006

Added flexinode module. This allows the creation of arbitrary node forms from existing node components. This will be used to connect presentation topics with meeting dates.

Added event module to allow the association of dates with specific nodes. This will be used for meetings and presentations.

Added small kwlug logo for fancy theme.

Added phptemplate template engine.
Added fancy theme.

Disabled sifr functions in fancy theme.

Hi. I'm working on the site during the evening of Tuesday 21 March 2006. You are not imaging the errors, mistakes, failures and random goofs. They are real.

What I learned from this week's Debian Weekly News: If you don't enjoy beef, enterprising carnivores can compile their programs with chicken.

Oh. And for those wacky vegetarians, there's Open-COBOL. Sigh.

(Oh. And Drupal has security flaws and needs an upgrade.)

UPDATE: Ace of Penguins has been orphaned! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

This is another plugin for Drupal. It allows wikis that look and feel like wikis, if we want to go in that direction. See:

http://www.ubuntulite.org/dokuwiki/doku.php

for an example.