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A couple simple tricks to modify a form:

Everyone knows modifying a form can be a pain and particularly confusing for the beginner if you don't know where to start.  I am putting this quick article together to supplement my last article and highlight those tricks.
 

Introduction:

Drupal is a great open-source project that combines being a unified web-framework, a serious API and is highly modular due to its architecture.  It is also very community driven, powerful and above all, caters to the developer and the themer.  Off the bat, Drupal can be a little big confusing and intimidating for the beginner.  In this mini-series, I will show you various ways of adding fields to the registration and user process in Drupal.

IDEs such as Dreamweaver can cost alot of money for the results they produce.  As the web changed, a Java based-platform, Eclipse exploded onto the development scene.  As Eclipse gained more popularity, communities formed and open-source editions that packaged it into a PHP IDE.

One of these IDEs is called Aptana. 

This Howto covers downloading and configuring Aptana for PHP and Drupal development.

To create a snapshot using Microsoft MSSQL 2005 and reverting back to the snapshot can be performed with the following queries:

Creating a snapshot:

CREATE DATABASE Test_Snapshot ON ( NAME = logical_dnName_datafile,

'Test_snapshot.mdf' ) AS SNAPSHOT OF dbName

Using a snapshot:

USE Test_Snapshot
SELECT * FROM tableName

Reverting from a snapshot:

Error:

warning: date() It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings.  You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function.  In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identified.  We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PST/-8.0/noDST' instead in...

Whats up?

Drupal 6 and PHP 5.3 throws this particular error, it is fixed by the following steps:

To run a command right after you boot, before anybody logs in, add the command to the file /etc/rc.local:

1. Open a Terminal.
2. Become root: su -
3. Open the file in your favorite text editor: vi /etc/rc.local
4. Add the command that you want to run to the end of the file, on its own line.

Introduction:

I was at work one day running Fedora 10 on my laptop and needed to be able to work an Office template. I needed some functionality that Openoffice was not providing, certain Macro support with spreadsheets, certain Word features and on another tangent, easier wireless access.

If your having trouble diagnosing email issues with Zimbra Opensource edition, such as having trouble receiving external email look at the following wiki pages:

• http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=ZimbraMtaMyNetworks