Currently, the main application of this feature is the Drupal sites page. By default, fresh Drupal installations can use drupal.org as their directory server and report their existence. This reporting occurs via scheduled XML-RPC pings.
Drupal administrators should simply enable this feature to get listed on the Drupal sites page. Just set your site's name, e-mail address, slogan and mission statement on the administer » settings page. Then make sure that the field called Drupal XML-RPC server on the administer » settings » drupal page is set to %drupal-xml-rpc, and enable this feature using the dropdown directly below.
The listing of your site will occur shortly after your site's next cron run. Note that cron.php should be called using the domain name which you want to have listed at drupal.org. For example, don't kick off cron by requesting http://127.0.0.1/cron.php. Instead, use a publicly accessible domain name such as http://www.example.com/cron.php.
-Also note that your installation need not use drupal.org as its directory server. For example, this feature is perfectly capable of aggregating pings from all of your departmental drupal installations sites within an enterprise.
", array('%drupal-sites' => 'http://www.drupal.org/drupal-sites', '%Drupal' => 'http://www.drupal.org', '%drupal-xml-rpc' => 'http://www.drupal.org/xmlrpc.php', '%xml-rpc' => 'http://www.xmlrpc.com/', '%site-settings' => url('admin/settings'), '%drupal-settings' => url('admin/settings/drupal'))); +Also note that your installation need not use drupal.org as its directory server. For example, this feature is perfectly capable of aggregating pings from all of your departmental drupal installations sites within an enterprise.
", array('%drupal-sites' => 'http://drupal.org/drupal-sites', '%Drupal' => 'http://drupal.org', '%drupal-xml-rpc' => 'http://drupal.org/xmlrpc.php', '%xml-rpc' => 'http://www.xmlrpc.com/', '%site-settings' => url('admin/settings'), '%drupal-settings' => url('admin/settings/drupal'))); case 'admin/modules#description': return t('Lets users log in using a Drupal ID and can notify a central server about your site.'); case 'admin/settings/drupal': return t('Using this your Drupal site can "call home" and add itself to the Drupal directory. If you want it to add itself to a different directory server you can change the Drupal XML-RPC server setting -- but the directory server has to be able to handle Drupal XML. To get all your site information listed, go to the settings page and set the site name, the e-mail address, the slogan, and the mission statement.
', array('%xml-rpc-setting' => url('admin/settings/drupal'), '%site-settings' => url('admin/settings'))); case 'user/help#drupal': return t("Drupal is the name of the software which powers %this-site. There are Drupal web sites all over the world, and many of them share their registration databases so that users may freely login to any Drupal site using a single Drupal ID.
-So please feel free to login to your account here at %this-site with a username from another Drupal site. The format of a Drupal ID is similar to an email address: username@server. An example of a valid Drupal ID is mwlily@www.drupal.org.
", array('%Drupal' => 'http://www.drupal.org', '%this-site' => ''. variable_get('site_name', 'this web site') .'')); +So please feel free to login to your account here at %this-site with a username from another Drupal site. The format of a Drupal ID is similar to an email address: username@server. An example of a valid Drupal ID is mwlily@drupal.org.
", array('%Drupal' => 'http://drupal.org', '%this-site' => ''. variable_get('site_name', 'this web site') .'')); } } @@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ function drupal_settings() { else if (variable_get('site_mission', '') == '') form_set_error('drupal_directory', t('You must set your site mission on the administer » settings page.' , array('%url' => url('admin/settings')))); - $output = form_textfield(t('Drupal XML-RPC server'), 'drupal_server', variable_get('drupal_server', 'http://www.drupal.org/xmlrpc.php'), 55, 128, t('The URL of your root Drupal XML-RPC server.')); - $output .= form_radios(t('Drupal directory'), 'drupal_directory', variable_get('drupal_directory', 0), array(t('Disabled'), t('Enabled')), t("If enabled, your Drupal site will make itself known to the Drupal directory at the specified Drupal XML-RPC server. For this to work properly, you must set your site's name, e-mail address, slogan and mission statement. When the \"Drupal XML-RPC server\" field is set to \"%drupal-xml-rpc\", your web site will get listed on the Drupal sites page. Requires the cron feature to be enabled.", array("%drupal-xml-rpc" => "http://www.drupal.org/xmlrpc.php", "%drupal-sites" => "http://www.drupal.org/drupal-sites/"))); + $output = form_textfield(t('Drupal XML-RPC server'), 'drupal_server', variable_get('drupal_server', 'http://drupal.org/xmlrpc.php'), 55, 128, t('The URL of your root Drupal XML-RPC server.')); + $output .= form_radios(t('Drupal directory'), 'drupal_directory', variable_get('drupal_directory', 0), array(t('Disabled'), t('Enabled')), t("If enabled, your Drupal site will make itself known to the Drupal directory at the specified Drupal XML-RPC server. For this to work properly, you must set your site's name, e-mail address, slogan and mission statement. When the \"Drupal XML-RPC server\" field is set to \"%drupal-xml-rpc\", your web site will get listed on the Drupal sites page. Requires the cron feature to be enabled.", array("%drupal-xml-rpc" => "http://drupal.org/xmlrpc.php", "%drupal-sites" => "http://drupal.org/drupal-sites/"))); return $output; }