I'm back

Holy smokes. I was offline a LONG time. Anyway, I'm back and running on BOA. Let's see how it goes. One more site to migrate over...

Setting Up Local Web Server on New Computer

**WORK IN PROGRESS**

Just documenting it for myself and maybe others. Just a quickie setup for now. Will probably switch to Nginx later.

Borrowed from http://vmirgorod.name/11/1/20/drupal-development-environment-based-ubunt...

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sun-java-community-team/sun-java6
(to get Java, guess it can't hurt, feel free to skip - required if you want apache solr running locally though)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily/stable
(to get chromium, aka google chrome, feel free to skip)
sudo apt-get update

Theming multivalue fields in a view

OK, two hour rule. Took me two hours to figure this out so documenting it here.

This turned out to be much harder than I thought and I'm still not thrilled with the solution.

So I have a multivalue field called "positions". It is an integer cck field and each integer is associated with a text entry like so:
1|Teacher
2|Dean
3|Vice Principal
etc.

This is one field, but a user can select more than one value.

When including this field in a view it wraps each item in the output in a div tag. I wanted it to be an unordered list.

Tried going the route of views theming, but couldn't figure out how to get access to the information I needed!

Finally this pointed me in the right direction...

http://drupal.org/node/556232

End result?

I had to override an obscure theme function in cck!! Namely this one...

http://drupalcontrib.org/api/function/theme_content_view_multiple_field

What's worse it is kind of an all or nothing proposition (at least for that field) as there is no obvious way to get it to behave differently for different views! Yuck.

Anyone know a better way?

Report back from Lower Fairfield Meetup

So a small meetup, but hoping to draw larger groups in future. Ideally I'd like this to be along the North Jersey model of being a place to go to work on your projects and get advice.

Yikes I Need to Update My Blog!

Too Too long. And so much good stuff. I went to Drupalcon Paris, came back, started planning for DrupalCamp NYC 7. And I still need to start my problems and solutions section!

Oh well, coming soon I guess.

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