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Drupal 'Access Denied' on all pages

by Sean McKeon, Web Developer

Ran into an interesting little snag this morning - a client's Drupal site was spitting out "Access Denied" errors for all page loads by anonymous users. It didn't appear to be a permissions problem - the nodes just wouldn't let anyone look at them. A bit of Googling found a bunch of posts like this that say that, for some mysterious reason, Drupal can lose the contents of the node_access table and you need to repopulate them. Read More…

Automated CVS checkouts of Drupal Core + Contrib

by Sean McKeon, Web Developer

If you've built out more than a few Drupal projects, you've probably gone through the same song & dance a number of times - find the most recent release of core, download, find the most recent release of Views, download, find the most recent release of CCK... Read More…

Ubercart Checkout + IE7 + Google Toolbar Autofill = broken

by Sean McKeon, Web Developer

Working on an Ubercart site recently, I ran into a small snag : some of the collapsible fieldsets weren't opening under IE7 when using the Google Toolbar w/ AutoFill enabled. Specifically, the Delivery & Billing information panes weren't displaying their form fields when expanded. The simple work-around was to go into Ubercart's checkout settings and disable the "Use collapsing checkout panes with next buttons during checkout." - this seems to be the way that all the other Ubercart sites I looked at handled the problem. A bit of investigation showed that the problem went away after rewriting theme_address_pane() to not use tables. I'm sure there's a very good explanation for this. If it wasn't 7pm on a Friday night, I might come up with an answer. Read More…