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Today I finally noticed that the W3C validator was open source (some people are real slow!)

This means I can get the source and run that validator on my system! Cool!

Under Debian you can just download the package with:

   apt-get install w3c-markup-validator

The will properly install the module, however, it won't be recognized just as is. I had to do several things to get things to mostly work...

Domain

If you want to use a specific domain name, you will need to edit your bind configuration file and add it.

Apache

Now, Apache is seemingly setup properly to ...

With Drupal, it is possible to have many sites defined in many different ways.

These are the things you can have in your URL that Drupal will understand and use to configure your site. The configuration file is called settings.php and will reside in a folder of which the name is determined using the URL used to access the site.

1. Fully qualified domain name

2. Port

3. Path withing the website

Sites are expected to be found under the 'sites' folder found in the same directory as the index.php file.

A quick CSV (Comma Separated Values) reference:

1) Row separator

  \n   \r\n

In order to separate lines, use a newline character sequence.

Most loaders probably support the \r sequence too. (Especially on MacOS/X)

I have been trying to get my imap_open() function to connect to my mail server.

The mail server works just fine since I can use it over and over again to receive emails in Thunderbird.

So...

The other day, I setup a small script to send file on an FTP. That was a long time since I had done anything like that and was not really thrilled, but I'm working for a client.

The FTP worked pretty well. The upload was going for a while. According to wput, if the connection is lost, it automatically retries and continues the transfer. It got stuck 3 times on me. For hours. No retry. Zilch.

Now, I updated my files on my end and then started the transfer again. Had to wait forever, although that is not the direct fault of wput, when it gets stuck mid-way, it's bad.

Several times, you may have been creating views and wondered: how the heck could I add a link to my node Edit page, or if you are like me, my node Outline, Track, Convert pages on top of the Edit page.

This is actually pretty easy.

To your fields, add a Node: Nid then click the Add button at the bottom.

In the setup of the field, select Rewrite the output of this field and enter the text of the link as it should appear (i.e. 'Edit' or 'Convert'.)

Quite often, I write documents that require a logo from a brand such as Microsoft or Apple. Here I have link that take me to the pages were I can get the logos. The following are links to the logos of different companies I work with. If you have some, feel free to share! The list is in alphabetical order.

• Apple

http://www.apple.com/pr/products/

• Made to Order Software Corporation

http://www.m2osw.com/en/press.html

This page has empty paragraphs at the top (before this line), at the bottom and in between each paragraphs. In a way, this is a weird module!

It use the MO Paragraph trimmer filter1, written in PHP for Drupal 6.x, to remove all of those empty paragraphs. Sadly, there isn't a good way for you to check the page source, but you can test by posting a comment (I think...)

The idea ...

• 1. Available on the Made to Order Software website.

Today I was creating a report and created a table with a column named 'Group'. It looked like it worked just fine so I moved on with it.

Then, at the point I wanted to insert data with a simple INSERT INTO ... statement, it broke. The statement would generate a syntax error. Yes. The simple answer is that GROUP is viewed as a keyword and thus when used as a field name it needs to be escaped (i.e. written between backward quotes: `...`). Not liking the need to escape a field name each time I use it, I just renamed the field which is even better.

In MS-Access you can create a Recordset using the OpenRecordset on a database.

Once you have that record set, you can get the rows with the GetRows() function.

It has one advantage: once the function returns the data remains consistent (it is in an array). The really bad part is... what is returned is an array. This means all the fields are now numbered instead of named.