Everybody had a great time at the Drupal 7 release party in NYC sponsored by GVS, Treehouse, Thinkdrop. I gave my raffle ticket to the bartender, oops, a free drink!

a few more photos in my gallery

and a gallery by Forest Mars

a gallery posted by sponsor Treehouse Agency

and a Group Pool gallery on Flickr

On October 4, 2010 Oprah said that Faith the Dog is her all-time favorite animal guest

See a clip of the show, including a reprise of Faith's 2006 appearance on Oprah, on Faith the Dog's Official Web Site

I am the Webmaster and Web Developer for Faith's web site, built with Drupal of course

netsperience 2.x has moved from Bluehost to

Hot Drupal web hosting, a product of Holistic Solutions Inc.

Hot Drupal is Drupal-centric hosting with great support, and includes ffmpeg (for video) and SSH. Bluehost did not have ffmpeg and when I signed up for SSH they told me I was not allowed to install my own binaries.

Another feature Hot Drupal provides is "Hybrid VPS" with fewer IP neighbors on each tiered hosting plan. netsperience 2.x is running noticeably faster now.

I have been hosting dev and client sites on Hot Drupal for a couple of years, and when I received an invoice from Bluehost for 24 months @ $7.95/mo I decided the time had come to move netsperience 2.x.

I hesitated mostly because I was afraid of problems moving my Gallery portfolio, a complicated app to install and configure. In fact I did have some problems, but Hot Drupal support helped me resolve my new configuration in a few hours.

Yes, I'm a Hot Drupal happy camper. If you contact Hot Drupal, tell Steve Brown I say, "Hi!"

Call me old fashioned. I started using JavaScript in the 90s before jQuery was even an idea. Sure, I can troubleshoot jQuery, and it is used a lot in Drupal, but my first impulse is to write regular JavaScript, which still works too. I think jQuery is the best JS framework, I've worked with prototype.js, mootools etc. too.

But when I wanted to hide an obscure and possibly meaningless warning message on the user account edit page (so that new members would not get freaked and think they did something wrong) I struggled.

First I hacked the user.module and although I removed the warning I also gave everybody admin access, including people who are not even logged in - not a good idea.

So I used CSS to hide the warning messages on "body-page.user" which seemed to do the trick.

Then my client told me he was having trouble creating new accounts, and I realized that I hid ALL user module warnings including "User name xxxx already exists" so I was back with the ugly warning.

Finally, I decided to hide just the warning with the text in question. Sure, I could have done it with classic JavaScript, indexing through all the div elements and looking for the matching innerHTML text and hiding the div. I guess that would have been about 8 lines of code.

I decided to figger out the best jQuery method. I came up with one line of jQuery code to add to my theme template that did the trick:

<script type="text/javascript">$("div.messages:contains('Illegal offset type in isset or empty')").hide();</script>

(note: the .messages selector is crucial; without it, all divs that are parents of the warning are also hidden, effectively hiding the entire page!)

thanks, jQuery...

now about that PHP warning...

learn jQuery at W3Schools