We've been working on our first Drupal project at work. It's a Kiosk for the Penrose library that contains local and tourist information.

To sum up, I had to figure out how to list a large group of websites by category and have the categories return only URLs when selected. This is simple to do using SQL and VBScript, but not quite as simple in Drupal.

I used Taxonomy, CCK, Menus, Pages, and Views to accomplish this. For a more detailed explanation, check out my VirgiBlog entries on the subject.

My issue with Admin Role has been addressed at drupal.org. I applied the fix and it worked! The only problem is, the user that fixed the problem wants me to apply it to a new release of the module. However, apparently I need CVS access to the module to create a new release for it. Whew, dodged that bullet.

I've been reading about website performance and have altered bandwidth and block caching settings per the instructions on pg 295-6 of Drupal 6 book. I also enabled and configured the Throttle module per instructions on pg 297-8, including enabling Throttle on the Who's New and VirgiBlog blocks.

The author suggested the following information for optimizing server performance:

http://drupal.org/node/2601

I'm documenting this in case we need it for the new server.

I enabled the Content Translation module, which allows the person entering content to translate it into different languages. Mind you, it doesn't translate for you, you have to create the content in the proper language yourself.

Check out My Thrilling Multi-lingual Blog Entry for an example.

I enabled the Locale module and imported the Afrikaans .po file. This went well. However, when I tried to do the same for the Spanish translation, there's a .po for every module, theme, and profile. I wonder if there's an easier way to do this than importing each one separately. Also, when I switched back to English as the default language, I have some Spanish straggling terms still hanging out in the toolbars. Hmmm, this will need some more testing and investigation to implement, I think.

I was experimenting with Actions and Triggers. It was fun, but I'm not sure how to get email updates about specific comments, as opposed to the general email I was getting.

I also need to figure out how to be notified via email when a user submits a comment into the approval queue.

I just installed and enabled Views. Unfortunately I got the following error message in my admin/modules page when I enabled it:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 263751 bytes) in /home2/vfrankly/public_html/includes/menu.inc on line 958

I uninstalled the module and everything is back to normal. However, if I re-extract the module the error message comes back, even if I haven't enabled the module.

I enabled ModuleInfo. It's very simple and very cool. Now each enabled module on my site has an information link that tells me all about the module and where it's being used.

I enabled the Admin Role module today. This module is supposed to allow the user to assign all permissions to a specified role.

Unfortunately, the module had some issues with 6.5, such as assigning all permissions to the wrong role, or not assigning them at all. As you can probably imagine, it was pretty frustrating and disturbing.

I have an issue posted on drupal.org, so we'll see what happens. I have disabled the module until the issue is resolved.

UPDATE:

I enabled the admin_menu module. It was very easy to configure. I removed the Administration menu items off of the Navigation menu so they weren't in two places, which would have defeated the purpose of installing the module in the first place.

One thing I'll need to remember: Re-enable the Administration menu items in the Navigation menu when the time comes to do a Drupal version upgrade. Otherwise, after I disable all contrib modules I'll be left without an admin menu at all. That would suck. Five bucks says I'll forget to do that...