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Hi all,

A very informative article on how drupal search index is built. This article explains as HTML content is taken from node, processed and stored in database for searching purpose.

Drupal's in-build search is a powerful search system - that does full keyword searching.

Read more at
http://acquia.com/blog/drupal-search-how-indexing-works

Vinay

Hi all,

We at VinayRas, recently released a drupal module named - "Simplenews Autosubscribe" - allows webmasters to auto-subscribe new users to a pre-defined newsletter.

This module relies on Simplenews module.

Please the module and its code at
http://open.vinayras.com/new-drupal-module-simplenews-autosubscribe

Thanks
Vinay

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.

I came across ProsePoint - a Newspaper management system built on the top of Drupal.

This is what website says.
ProsePoint is a software package that lets you quickly and easily publish your own newspaper or magazine online. You can upload stories, edit stories online, and organise stories into editions, all through the user-friendly and convenient web interface. You do not need to know any programming or html.

Hi,

I came across this interesting post of combining "Login box" & 'Registration page" on a single page. Most of the Web 2.0 websites are now using this sort of approach.

Read more at
http://www.proofgroup.com/blog/2008/sep/drupal_combining_login_registrat...

Hi,

Microsoft announced to support Drupal on their "Web Application Installer"

Hi all,

We recently completed upasana.in - a website for Upasana organisation based in Auroville, Tamilnadu, india.

Upasana.in uses several Drupal modules
-> Ubercart (for e-commerce section)
-> CCK: content creation / enhancement
-> Currency: To automatically convert prices from INR to USD (Prices on website are listed in INR)
-> Pathauto - for search engine friendly URLs
-> Nodewords: for setting different Meta Tags for each page.
-> Node Queue: to control data at few locations
and many more useful modules.

And lots of custom PHP coding.

Hi All,

I was trying to find a solution that would automatically generate tags (from node content) and add them to taxonomy terms.

This article shows some promise.

http://www.drupalcoder.com/story/316-drupal-script-to-automatically-add-...

Regards
Vinay

Hi all

Acquia(http://acquia.com/) has launched Commercial Drupal Distribution

Download the totally free Acquia Drupal 1.0 release - Complete with a great new theme developed by the folks at Top Notch Themes this distribution represents a combination of Drupal 6.4 and key contributed modules all wrapped up together with the documentation on how to get it all up and running.

Read full blog at its website
http://acquia.com/blog/magical-hour-acquia-launches-acquia-drupal-and-ac...

Hi,

I was trying to setup Memetracker (http://drupal.org/project/memetracker) - and since this system is heavily dependent on PHP 5.x & MySQL 5.x - i had to face few issues.

While creating tables in MySQL 4.x i was getting this error

* user warning: Column length too big for column 'content' (max = 255); use BLOB or TEXT instead


Since MySql 4.x does not support Varchar field to be more than 255 chars - things were not working at my end.

I created tables manually at my end using following SQL.

Hope this helps (in case you have MySQL 4.x)

Vinay