Re: FN-FORUM: Help with drupal please

date posted 16th April 2008 14:24

Sorry mate, I've never used Drupal.

Lee Rickler
Director - Point and Stare - pointandstare.com
Web Design and Development for over 11 years

Duncan Glendinning wrote:
> Good Afternoon,
>
> Well, Anthony has been helping me, but hit a bit of a problem here, so
> hoping you can help. I have created a custom content type called
> waste_items so that users can post either an offered or a wanted post
> of this type.
> I am doing pretty well (considering I hadn't even touched drupal
> before this morning) but stuck with a couple of things I am hoping you
> can help with:
>
> If you have a look at this page: http://www.greenbath.org/waste/offered
>
> 1. Ideally I want to just display the titles of each of the items
> listed, not the full info on each, as the full info will be displayed
> when they click on the title to view its details (or more info link if
> I add one). Can't see with the content templates that there is one for
> short listing and one for complete listing, there is only one for
> teaser and one for body. Any ideas?
>
> 2. You will see this under description: <p> testing testing so
> its displaying the ASCII codes. If I change
> $field_description[0]['view'] to $field_description[0]['value'] it
> will display this testing testing which is not much better. I am
> using check_plain but that doesn't seem to affect it. The text was
> enetered via the little built in wysiwyg so I don't understand why it
> is displaying the tags instead of parsing them.
>
> Any ideas or help really appreciated.
>