1. Short, revealing quotes form politicians opposed to social security.
2. Same for Medicare.
3. The Libertarian platform from 1980 when David Koch ran as VP against Reagan

You can become an associate of zFacts by invitation only. This is a help page for those who have been given a login.

• To log in, Click "Login" (faint) in the upper right corner of any page.
• To change your user name, password, or emails:
  • When logged in, "Hello your-name" in the upper right
• For help editing look here.
• .
• On the 2nd menu bar,
  • "Ideas" will get you to a page where you can leave ideas for other associates.
  • Don't use "Add content.
• To add a page: Click "Add Child Page" near the bottom of the page you want the new page to go under.

We apologize for moving your page. 

This is the new zfacts site. The old zfacts site is at:   zfacts.com/zfacts.com/

Here's How to Find an Old Page that Is Not Part of this New Site: 

Look in your browser's location (URL) bar. Suppose you see this:

zfacts.com/p/783.html                             Then, change it to this:

zfacts.com/zfacts.com/p/783.html            Hit enter.

That should take you to your page on the old site. You can browse the old zFacts site, here.

You may also find similar material on this new site by using the table of contents or search form on the left.

Best regards,

Steven

Leave notes here.
 
 
 

1. Click "Login" (faint) in the upper right corner of any page.
2. Log in. (you must already have name & password)
3. Use the table of contents to go to the page you want to edit.
4. Under the page's title click the edit tab.
5. In the "Body" make corrections.
   • Occationally there is a "Summary window for front-page teasers above the Body window. Ignore it.
6. Save your work:
   • Warning:  Clicking the "View" tab will discard any unsaved work (it's dumb).
   • Click the floppy-disk Icon at the right end of the 3rd row of icons
   • Or, scroll to the very bottom and click "Save."
7. If you mess up, don't save your work
   • Hit your browsers back arrow, or
   • Click the X near the "outline" tab in the upper right.
8. Linking:
   • To link zfacts.com/node/4, select keywords, click the "link icon," enter  /node/4  Note that "<other>" will appear. Example:  Link to node 4
   • To link the page zfacts.com/about, use this:   /about  Example: double click this in edit mode:  Link to about
   • An external link should be followe by  , found a image/xlink.gif  (use the IMCE Picture icon)
   • Tricks:
   • If you are on a node page you any of these:
     • /node/4   ../node/4   or  ./4
     • because  ..  means go up one level from where you are (at /node)
     • and   .   means go from here
     • Starting with  /  means start from the base path:  zfacts.com

Normally, put the editor in "Full HTML" text format mode (just below Body-edit window.

• There are 5 types of paragraph:
  • "Null" -- just line break, <br />, at the end of a line
  • Normal:     <p>
  • Division:    <div>
  • No-Indent:  <p style="text-indent:0px;">
  • Indented:    <p style="text-indent:2em;">
• Using normal paragraphs:
  • The first Normal will look like "no-indent"
  • The following ones will look like "indented" paragraphs.
  • But the HTML will still just show: <p> .  The trick is in the hidden CSS.
• Typing normal paragraphs:
  • If you just type and hit "enter" you will get a Normal paragraph.
  • If you hit Shift-Enter you will get Division paragraphs
• Overriding Indents
  • No-indent and Indent can be found in "Styles," and they will override <p> or <div>.
• Switching Types:
  • Use the "Paragraph Format" drop-down just right of "Styles" 
  • Check It's Label before you hit the drop down arrow
    • "Format"  means it's in <br /> mode.
    • "Normal"  means it's in <p>  mode
    • "Normal ..."  means it's in <div> mode
    • It will produce a paragraph of its mode.
    • If it is in <p> and you type 3 lines with Enters after the first 2, you will get a normal paragraph with breaks after the first 2 lines.
  • Switch Null >> Normal.    Click "Normal"            in Format drop-down
  • Switch Null >> Division.   Click "Normal (Div)"  in Format drop-down
  • Switch Normal >> Null.    Click "Normal"            in Format drop-down
  • Switch Division >> Null.   Click "Normal (Div)"  in Format drop-down
  • Switch Normal ⇔ Division    Click the other one 
• You might need to click  Source  and see what's going on.

PopNotes pop open when the mouse goes over the reference. To make this happen the footnote reference and the footnote's number (in the note) must match and be formatted precisely. For footnote NN these formats are:

• [ #NN]  <= this is the reference format.[#1]  Underline Required!
• [ =NN]  <= the same number in the note itself. No underline.
• [ #Gross National Product]  <= Another OK reference.  Underline Required!
• [ =Gross National Product]  <= Another footnote number. Must match perfectly -- caps and all.

These formats will not be shown to the visitor, but you will see them when editing. Here are the other rules for making popNotes work:

1. NN can be any number or words and most symbols, e.g. NN could be "GNP(1999)". But [#there's a limit].
2. Do not put  [ or ] inside the NN.
3. Do not us  [ #  or  [ =  anywhere except for marking references and foonotes.
4. PopNotes can include links, pictures and formatting.
5. Put each footnotes in it's own row of a table at the bottom of the page.
6. The footnote [#delimited] footnote number [#should] go at the start of footnote. The space after [=NN] is optional.

Some hints about making the table and the notes:

• Set the Text format to "Full HTML"
• Make the table by using the table button near the end of the top button row.[#3]
• Set the number of collums to 1 and the number of rows to about the number of footnotes you expect.
• Add a row when needed (or delete one) by right-clicking the row and choosing from the "Row" menu.
• "Edit" this page and look at the PopNotes: table to see what it should like.

HoverNotes Title

• The hover notes should have a title as shown below.
• Put the underline on before the bold and then make it a normal paragraph.

[#PopNotes]

Position your cursor before the paragraph that the image goes to the right of.

1. Cick IMCE icon (2nd row)
2. Choose Image
3. Alignment: Right
4. Alternative Text, and Advanced / Advisory-Title  are both a good idea. 

Caption

Image with a Caption -- use a table

1. Make a Table with 1 Col and 2 Rows.
   1. Set Width smaller than the image -- ~50px
   2. Border = 0
   3. Align: Right
   4. Optional:  Go to "Advanced" tab and after  "width: 5px"
      • add  " ; margin: 0 -8px 0 5px; "  (Note the initial " ; " )
2. Add the Image with IMCE (picture icon in 2nd row).
   1. Click Inside the table.
   2. Click the IMCE icon.
   3. Select your imaged and click "Insert"
   4. Set the width you want (make sure litle lock is locked).
   5. Go to "Link" tab if you want to link the image to, e.g. ../p/416
   6. Click   OK
3. Add a Caption
   1. Type caption and center it.

See Files/IMCE Setup for tech stuff

Add Image with a Popup Window Link

1. Just link any phrase and select "popup window" from the Target menue in CK editor.
2. The links should be the url of the image.
3. Good to put the width and heigth in for the window.

The "Magically Transfer Content" box in the edit screen allows

1. Content to be place in difficult locations (header and sidebar).
2. Difficult content (widgets) to be placed in the body at view time.

How it works:

1. Place special content in a magic box:
   • <div class="zMagic zReplace" ref="target ID" > content to transfer </div>
2. Make a target div or span, e.g.:
   • <div id="target ID"> empty or not </div>
3. When the page loads, the content replaces the target div or span, and the magic box is deleted.
4. class="zMagic zInsert" will cause the content to go inside the target div or span.

Headers and Right Sidebar:

1. These have pre-set target-ID's:  id="magicHeader",  and  id="magicSidebar"
2. It's best to use "insert" with the header.

Widgets, Gizmos and Javascript:

1. These will tend to execute before the move, so Javascript must be disabled.
2. This is done by replace both "<"s with "[=" like so:
   •     <script ...>maybe some JS</script>
   •     [=script ...>maybe some JS[=/script>
3. Then inclose the broken script tags in magic span tags:
   • <span class="zScript"> broken JS script </span>
4. The repare will be made after the move.
5. Some gizmos need this (e.g. Iraq war quotes), some don't (e.g. Republican Debt), and some cannot tolerate it (e.g. National Debt Gizmo#05).

Example:  Edit this page and check the "Magically Transferred Content" editing box below the regular Body editing box.

Be sure to use Text format = PHP code

The Home Page:

1. A "sticky" entry at the top the introduces the site
   1. Publishing Options: Check "Promote to Front Page," "Sticky."
   2. Top entyr is the About page and it contains jQuery code to suppress it's title/header on the home page.
2. 10 most recent site entries listed below
   1. Configuration / System / Front page / Number of posts
   2. At the bottom of any node, in edit mode, find "Publishing Options." Check "Promote to Front Page."
   3. It's good to use a "Drupal Teaser Break" (ckEditor button) for Front-Page Stories
3. Druapal automatically provides a page-overflow system.

Menus:

1. The "Main Menu" provides the Navigation Bar across the top.
   • A page can be added to it with the menus below the edit window
   • The Main Menu can be organized at:    Home » Administration » Structure » Menus / List-Links
2. The Left-Bar Content:
   • Go to the bottom of an editing-version of the page
   • Use the Book Outline
   • Make the page a book and set its weight to determine its position.

Books:

1. The rest of the site is divided into drupal "books."
2. Each book can have one drupal blog -- the last chapter of the book.
3. "Add Child Page" selects a "My Book Page," but "Add Content" alows other types of pages to be added.

Blogs:

1. Each blog must have a different (ficticious author).

The Structure of a page is mainly controle by:  Structure / Blocks. However the theme itself puts that Main Menu into the top Navigation Region. See zframe/!Notes on zframe.txt.

The Header contains a block, "Micro Login for Top Right" that contains both the login and the magicHeader div that can be loaded by using the Magic-Block-Input.

Paragraphs:  The first paragraph is not indented, but the next one, and subsequent ones are. However, if a table or some non-paragraph occurs, then the next one is not indented. See Wysiwyg editing.

1. Magic Block
2. Zero or more Widgets
3. Google ad

The Magic Blocks will contain whatever is inside these divs in the Magic-Block-Input box (below Body input box when editing).

• <div id="sideMagic"> This page's unique sidebar stuff. </div>
• <div id="headerMagic"> This page's unique header stuff. </div>

The Magic-Block-Input must be used with "PHP code" as the text format. Do not style the magic divs; they disappear. Put any HTML, PHP, JS inside of them.

To turn on a widget/gizmo:  Structure / Blocks / Configure / Show block on specific pages (at the bottom).

The Google ad shows up automatically.

There Column Layout:   10+220+525+20+175+10 = 960. pad+Col#1+Body+space+Col#2+pad.

• Saving after editing may give a Huge Red Error Message
  • Inside the message is the full html of your page.
  • It contains some bad characters.
  • Copy the full html and paste in a good text editor -- which will reject the bad characters.
  • Reload the page (all your changes will be lost).
  • Edit the page, click "Source" and replace all the html with what you have in your text editor.
  • Works with Edit Pad Lite 7, and ??

The Table Border Bug:

Why does a table have a gray top border with either border=1 or border=0?

It can be fixed by using a style (such as style="border: 0px;" ) inside of <tbody>

Displaying HTML for visitors to copy.

Google displays code in a <textarea>. The trouble is that CK editor tampers with what's in this area unless it's using PHP mode. But then you can't do regular editing.

If you use PHP text formatting and then switch to Full HTML and back, CK will change > and > etc into &lt; or whatever. UNLESS, you change  <textarea>stufff</textarea>  to <pre>stufff</pre>.

Then you can change to Full HTML and back and then switch to textarea. 

Why does a table have a gray top border with either border=1 or border=0?

It can be fixed by using a style inside of <tbody>

• The Theme "z-Framework," is set as the default under "Appearance."
• It is a subtheme of Framework, and is found in:  sites/all/themes/zframe.
• The "! Notes" file in the folder tells some about how z-Framework has been tweaked, and there are comments in some zframe files.
• Here's more info organized by looking at the page
• .
• Page layout
  • Column width is in zframe/styles.css [styles]. If a column is used, it appears.
  • Coumn widths = 220 0 525 20 175, with 10px of padding on the outside. Total width=960.
  • All the formatting is also in styles.
  • $site_name and $site_slogan are set by drupal / Configuration / System
  • favicon, logo, and header_image, are located in zframe/
    • header_image is named and controlled in zframe/styles.css in the Header section.
  • Main menu, is turned off in zframe/page.tpl.php. (It would run across the bottom of the header.)
• Blocks
  • Structure > blocks
  • The Google Ad blocks contain PHP to turn them off when editing.
  • The Search form Block has two sets of permissions (dumb and hard to control).
    • Set #1:  People > Permissions-tab > use search, OR, Modules > Search-Permissions > use search
    • Set #2:  Blocks > Search form > Configure > Roles (near bottom)
    • Anonymous users need to have permission both places
• Front page
  • The Read More footers have been turned off with jQuery in the About page. They looked funny and took too much space.
  • The top entry is from the about page, and it's header has been turned off with jQuery in that page.

1. Theme Tweaks
   • /sites/all/themes/zframe     a subtheme of framework
   • zframe.info        creates the subtheme
   • style.css            contains most tweaks
   • my-jquery.js      contains js for Magic Blocks and popNotes
   • html.tpl.php       contains home page html-title
   • logo.png,  favicon.ico
   • reset                  essential, perhaps because it over-rides the updated reset
   • page.tpl.php     preventserror in top menu appearance -- why? blocks update?
   • The Horizontal Rule <hr /> gets a wide bottom margine.

Move and Duplicate sites with unix:

The command that duplicated old zFacts:  time wget --limit-rate=600k -m -k -K -E http://zfacts.com -o log

Backup with Drupal

1. How:   Configuration  /  System  / Backup & Migrate  or click here
2. What:   This just backs up the MySQL DB (to the drupal server) in 
3. Where:   /home/carbonom/public_html/private/backup_migrate/manual

Backup with C-Panel

1. Start C-Panel ( see Google spreadsheet "Computer Notes" tab=Web Sites)
2. Choose:  Files / Backups:
   1. Backup Home Directory (all Drupal except MySql)  160MB, Sept. 2011
   2. Download to:  MyDocuments  /  ! Web  /  Drupal Backup  /  Date
   3. Backup MySQL dbase.  Very small

Update Modules

1. Click:   Modules / Update tab / Check the boxes /  "Download these updates" button
2. Configuration / Development / Performance / Clear Cache    click here

Update Drupal Core (minor, e.g. 7.5 to 7.7)

1. Download the tar.gz file
2. upload it to Home/carbonom  and unpack it with the C-panel / Files / Extract to  publich_html.   It will land in it's own folder.
3. Make a drupal_old folder and copy .htaccess and the six drupal folders (but not /sites).
4. .htaccess has been modified a lot, but setting.php in sites/default/ has not been modified.
5. Some instruction in google sheet: ComputerNotes / Drupal on how to get through setup if necessary.
6. Overview of what's needed:
   1. Replace the drupal code folders: includes, mis, modules, profiles, scripts, themes.
   2. Replace the files in public_html except for .htaccess
   3. Replace /sites/default/default.setting.php   (this is needed)
   4. Don't replace the rest of the stuff in /sites
   5. Perhaps go through drupal set up and tell in the MySQL dbase name, owner, passwd

From Dan: file upload capabilities, and thought that I would pay $59 for the CKFinder file browser. But I had a lot of trouble getting it to work, and in searching for solutions to my difficulties, came across others with the same difficulties who solved them by using "KCFinder"

Double Quotes Bug:  They turn into "\&quot; in CKeditor. This is caused by PHP. See Drupal Installing

Installation:

1. Do not install the Drupal's WysiWig module, only the Drupal ckEditor Module.
2. Install the ckEditor drupal modual using the drupal modual installer (http://drupal.org/project/ckeditor), and read the README file.
3. Put the files from http://ckeditor.com/download in all    /sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/
4. Modify Toolbars for Filtered and Full HTML: ( http://docs.cksource.com/CKEditor_3.x/Developers_Guide/Toolbar )
   1. Configuration > CKEditor > edit > Editor Appearance 
   2. Add:  ['DrupalPageBreak']  (the Drupal Teaser Break is already there.)
   3. Add:  ['mediaembed','IMCE'] (since the Plugins / IMCE check box does not seem to work.)
   4. Add:  Styles:   ['Styles','Format','Font','FontSize'],
5. Other configurations:
   1. Configuration > CKEditor > edit > Advanced Options
   2. Spell checker is turned off (good--it times out in 30 days) (this might be due to the ABC SCAYT button in the toolbar. 
   3. Now at this " CKEDITOR.config.disableNativeSpellChecker = false; " to the bottom of   modules/ckeditor/ckeditor.config.js
   4. Some JS configuration and info about ckeditor.config.js is here.
6. Add 'DrupalPageBreak'  and 'DrupalBreak' if missing.   Configure > CKEditor > Appearance > edit.  But DrupalPageBreak Need Paging module, which is not in 7 yet (maybe silly).
7. Uncomment 2 pair of lines at bottom of ckeditor/ckeditor.config.js   for  mediaembed and IMCE. Then  Configure > CKEditor > Appearance > edit  ['mediaembed','IMCE']

Customizing:

• sites/all/modules/ckeditor/ckeditor.styles.js
  • This file defines custom styles used with drop-down styles button while editing.
• sites/all/modules/ckeditor/ckeditor.config.js
  • This file defines classes and styles that will be used in the CKEdidtor window to make it more wysiwig.
  • E.g. define CK style "DateLine" to apply class "dateline." Then define class .dateline in (1) themes/zframe/style.css and in (2) ckeditor.config.js
  • #1 styles the date for drupal users and #2 styles it the same in the CK editor window.
• Alternative:  instead of modules/ckeditor/ckeditor.config.js, use  libraries/ckeditor/contents.css
  • I used this instead because I can cut and paste into it without any modification.
•  
• Paragraphs fully justified
• Titles not indented

• Defining your own styles: http://docs.cksource.com/CKEditor_3.x/Developers_Guide/Styles This tells how to configure ckEditor, but not specifically on Drupal. It seems that   sites/all/libraries/ckeditor/config.js is the place to tell it where the style defs will be.
• More drupal setup info http://drupal.ckeditor.com/setting-up-profiles?page=0,0

Full Toolbar:

To Re-Organize a Book:

Login  /  Content  /  Click the "Books" tab  /  Click on "edit order & titles" 

To Re-Order the Books:

Select a book and then select its "Outine tab:

To Re-Order the Main-Menue (navigation bar)

Structure / Menus / Main Menue

To leave short titles in the TOC, but have long titles on the pages, I added a field to all of the content types: Node-Page (visible) Title, field_npagetitle.

Then I hacked   themes/bartik/templates/page.tpl.php  as follows:

• Public files:  sites/all/files   (this is set with Configuration / File_System)
• files/doc/   for all documents,   files/image/   for all images
• Subfolders in each for each "book" in the zFacts table of contents
• Summary page: http://groups.drupal.org/node/20291
• Coming soon, Tools for IMCE:  http://drupal.org/project/imce_tools

• Images & IMCE
• Configure IMCE -- #1 specify where the image files ae
  • <root> seems to be any of the three standard "files" folders all/files, default/files or [multiuser]/files
• How to include images
• Drupal Image Fields
  • Their problem is they give you almost no control over where the image goes.

• File-System Standards
  • Folders:  ( <root> = sites/all/ files )
    • Documents:  /doc
    • Images: /image
  • Subfolders for doc and image = one for each "book" -- debt, econ, climate, energy, politics, war
  • General (zFacts / About / Iinfo / Free) files go directly into /doc or /image
  • File names:
    • Graphs, etc.,  that get updated don't include a date in the name
    • Docs start with creation date, e.g. 2011-09

Users: "User 1" owns the sight. Be careful. See who is user 1 at URL user/1

Don't blog as user 1 if you are ever going to let someone else help write the blog under your name.

User zFacts owns the only active blog (for now). It's listed as  zFacts Bog under "Don't Miss."

Supposedly the Bog module will compile all the user blogs into one big blog.

Blogs: Each user has one blog with all posts at user/whoever.

• Each post has it's own page.
• Each post can be promoted to the front page, or not.

Clearing Caches:

1. Ctrl R, or maybe Sht-Ctrl-reload
2. Open a new Incognito window
3. in Chrome: Tools / Clear Browsing Data -- Shft-Ctrl-Del
4. Clear Caches in Drupal

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en https://www.google.com/analytics/settings/ https://www.google.com/adsense/report/overview

Resources:

Programs:

• Select a bit extras at the top.
• View source, view normal -- see if the font is OK.
• Delete top empty paragrph
• Delete side paddinig cells:   <td width="19">&nbsp;</td>  (use shift enter for a line break)
• 10px => 0px ,   5px => 0px  (reduces vertical spacing between rows)

  Site setting for zfacts:  Left margin = right margin = 19, cell space height = 0.  

1. Three Titles
   • /sites/default/modules/three_titles
   • This allows content type with two added fields to accept 3 titles: for TC, page, and Google
2. PopNotes
   • /gizmo/jquery-tools/tooltipsy.min.js
3. Magic Blocks
   • JS is in my-jquery.js of sub-theme folder
   • tooltipsy is in gizmo folder
4. .htaccess redirects
   • List of implemented redirects: here
   • Probably should use http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect, to preven duplicat URLs with standard aliases
5. CKEditor
   • /sites/all/modules/ckeditor/ckeditor.config.js
   • disableNativeSpellChecker = false;  // allow brownser spellchecking in edit mode
6. Folders
   • ebooks
   • giz
   • gizmo
   • metaPage     Contains the old zFacts library
   • private

Theme switching module: http://drupal.org/project/themekey.   Fusion:  http://fusiondrupalthemes.com/

Main Drupal.org Sub-theme page:  http://drupal.org/node/225125

Sub-theme for Zen:  http://drupal.org/node/1010576, help: http://drupal.org/node/193318

Over-riding style sheets from base themes:  http://drupal.org/node/263967    

Drupal Themeing Guide  http://drupal.org/documentation/themes/bartik

Good links to theming pages  http://drupal.org/node/341628

The width for the various regions are set in bartik/css/layout.css. Remember to decrease the width of the other regions by the same amount that #sidebar-first was increased. The region selectors are:

.one-sidebar #content
.two-sidebars #content
#sidebar-first (left)
#sidebar-second (right)

Mulitisite Installs:

• See the file:  public_html/site/example.sites.php
• Best drupal documentation  http://drupal.org/getting-started/6/install/multi-site

magic_quotes_gpc = Off

• Magic quotes should be turned off by .htacces
• But on April 27th, 2012 this failed
• So I had to create php.ini in public_html and turn it off with the ini file.
• Create this with C-Panel  /  PHP-Config.

Faster PHP:

• PHP-Config can also select a faster kind of PHP deployment.
• I intend to turn that on.

Content Types, articles, book pages, etc., are comprised of fields.

• A field may appear multiple times in Edit mode: Structure > Content Types > Manage Fields > Edit > Number of Values.
  • If the Number of Values is increased, say from 1 to 2, and data is enetered in "value" 2, and then the # of Vals is decreased to 1, the data in #2 will no longer be visible, but it is not lost. If the # of Vals is increased to 2 again, it will return to view.
• If a field, e.g. "Body," is deleted from one content type, all the data for that field and that content type is lost, but other content types that use the field are not affected.
• To get a text-area field to be small, set it to one line and to Plain Text format.

Installing:

1. Navigate drupal to "Modules"
2. Click "Add modual" near the top of the page.
3. Goto  http://drupal.org/project/modules, find your module page, scroll down to "Download," right click and save address of the tar file you want.
4. Paste the address in to the module installer, and click install.
5. Do NOT hit the "back arrow" on your browser.
6. Go to the Modules page and activate it.

Building:

• About the structure of the node object (or php says: stdClass) http://www.unibia.com/unibianet/drupal/how-create-drupal-nodes-script
• See the Testing page to print out all the details of stdclass $node for any page.

Debugging:

• (for placing breakpoints in modules though, currently xdebug_break() does the trick.
• A simple way that works for me is to use drupal_set_message('Some text') which ends up displaying in the message area on the page. So for printing a simple variable I might use something like drupal_set_message('Variable name: ' . $variable) or if the variable is an array or object something like drupal_set_message('Variable name: <pre>' . print_r($variable, TRUE) . '</pre>');
• Good debugging page:  https://ratatosk.backpackit.com/pub/1836982-debugging-drupal

Links to Info:

• Check the comments then goto the function/theme/7 page.  http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--theme.inc/function/theme/6
• head_title set in here: \themes\engines\phptemplate\phptemplate.engine

Example Code:

How to put various types of content onto one page.

The front page allows this. Promote any node to the front page.  This only works for the official front page. If you re-direct and make a different page your home page, it won't work.

Taxonomy:

• Nodes are given a special keyword, then Drupal makes a page for them.

Drush:  http://www.opc.com.au/web-development/introduction-drush-drupal-power-tool

What are the public_html/  folders for?