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Drupal Query to Disable Comments on Node by Content Type

Web Threads — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:42:23 +0000

A handy drupal snippet, when someone’s added hundreds of nodes with comments allowed and you need to bulk disable them without editing them each by hand.

UPDATE drup_node SET `comment`=0 WHERE type='review';

Modify as needed with the correct drupal node table name for your installation, and set the type= to whatever the type you’d like to update.

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Drupal: mq4 File Attachments Open As Plain Text

Web Threads — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:43:43 +0000

A quick fix this morning for a client with a Drupal issue, links to mq4 files were opening as plain text in the browser window instead of presenting a download file prompt.

This is due to the server configuration, apache mime-types. It is usually easily fixed in an .htaccess file.

AddType application/octet-stream mq4

If that doesn’t sort the issue after clearing the browser cache, you can also try adding:

<Files *.mq4>
ForceType application/octet-stream
Header set Content-Disposition attachment
Files>

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How to Empty Tables in PhpMyAdmin (MySQL)

Web Threads — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:58:37 +0000

Recently I needed to empty the Drupal sessions and cache tables which had grown to some million+ rows and were causing weekly database errors on a busy health community website. In PhpMyAdmin, permissions to empty tables weren’t available.

I searched for a quick way to easily clear the table and found that truncate does the job and the permissions to do this was there even though it was not listed in the options of phpmyadmin.

TRUNCATE TABLE `drupal_sessions`

I also added a Drupal plugin to do database maintenance weekly to prevent this happening again. Sure enough, the site has been behaving and performing much better since, knock on wood.

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