User talk:Rlparker/Archive 1

This is not your talk page. This is your talk page. Just a heads-up. :P --Emufarmers 16:06, 30 Nov 2006 (PST)
 * Oops! I wasn't paying close enough attention there - thanks for the "heads-up" :-) Rlparker 16:12, 30 Nov 2006 (PST)

Thanks for moving my post to the correct place. I'll try to follow that next time :D.Xyber411


 * (responded on User_Talk:Xyber411)

Wow, thanks for all the information. At this point, I suppose I should just let you in on the situation I have been involved in. You see, I was attempting to use Drupal as a base site for a mailing list. I do not like the mailing lists provided by Dreamhost, as interfacing with them from a website seems more difficult than I'm capable at the moment (seeing as my understanding here is obviously so limited, but you're helping a lot... Thanks again, by the way). Anyways, I got my mind around using one of their modules, the mailhandler module. That requires imap support, which Dreamhost does not support out of the box. So, I emailed DH and they sent me here to compile my own version of PHP5, which I did (after about 20 failed attempts due to seemingly random errors). So, when I compiled it as per instructions with all features as written, without any errors, and added it to my .htaccess, I found that the login function broke. So, I switched the .htaccess file back until I could do some research. I came across a blog which stated that they had to change their settings.php file to read mysqli:// from mysql://, so I figured I'd give it a shot, and it worked. Suddenly the site came back to life. After I had all this working though, I found that the module listhandler is not a mailing list at all, but simply an extension to the mailhandler module. I really wish people would learn to more accurately title things (myself notwithstanding). I am now attempting to use the Organic Groups module with it's Organic Groups List Manager module. It now seems I'm going to have some trouble with this as well, but that's for another wiki guru. So, what's all of this for? The Nintendo Wii. I'm trying to get things as simple for the users as possible. The path things will go are as follows: They send an invite email to someone@miicommunity.com -> mailhandler -> listhandler -> forums -> Organic Groups -> Organic Groups List Manager -> users inboxes. By doing this, they send one email and it gets sent to everyone, as well as gets posted to the forums. I will also have a filter which will filter out anything which is not directly from a Wii console. I'm also trying to split off of the mailhandler to also create a new user account based off of the Wii Console Number, but that's going to take me quite some time, I'm sure. --Xyber411 21:18, 12 Dec 2006 (PST)


 * (responded on User_Talk:Xyber411)

Well, once again you've taught me a few things... thanks again. I've posted an edited version of this thread in the drupal discussion area under modules help as well. Hopefully when I get a resolution someone else can benefit from the experiences as well. --Xyber411 22:13, 13 Dec 2006 (PST)--Xyber411 12:45, 13 Dec 2006 (PST)