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The Hype Machine is a huge aggregation of music blogs. sooooooooooo much music. it's like radio, with the option for download, featuring more pre-release/rare goodness than you will ever manage to listen to.

i strongly recommend using a javascript/css drop-down menu to replace the standard issue naviagtion module. it's a compelte waste of time to sit there wait/click through 3 pages (e.g. 'Administer', 'Logs', 'Status Report'), when you know exactly where you want to go. With a drop-down menu, you just click 'Status Report'.

I needed a block in the right sidebar that displayed the user's name, picture and profile_bio (a multi-line text field i added to the profile). There's a block provided by the profile module that will do that already, but unfortunately it's hardcoded to only show itself in pages like node/*. I needed it to show in pages listing all the nodes of a particular site that a user has created, e.g. blog/*, as well. I used the views module to do it, here's how (you'll need the profile and blog modules from the core, and the views module to do this:

Anytime you pass variables to your database, you need to escape them (tell the db that 'this is data and not code'). This protects you from cross-site scripting. Drupal is no different. but fortunately it's easy. check it out.


for example, instead of this:

db_query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM {node} WHERE type = ".$type." AND status = 1")

you would want to use something like this:

db_query('SELECT COUNT(*) FROM {node} WHERE type = %s AND status = 1', $type)