Importing products to Ubercart via CSV

I don't post to this blog very often. Perhaps I should, but over the past few years I have only managed to get a small handful out!

Today I want to heap praise on this post, describing the one true method of achieving success in importing products to Ubercart in Drupal 6, from a csv file:

http://rhmttsdrupal.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/importing-and-updating-product-data-in-ubercart-using-csv-files/

Thank you, thank you, rhmtts, for a process that just simply works!

It's kind of weird that his Drupal blog is done in WordPress, but then again, it's maybe even weirder that mine uses Blogger!

A useful guide to installing an FTP server on Linux

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=79588

and then to remove it completely...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=579805

Nested Sortable Lists with jQuery

I have not yet delved into this, but I have found some promising resources:

http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2010/03/17-jquery-plugins-for-easy-and-efficient-reordering-and-filtering-page-elements.html

http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/dev/examples/tree/reorder.html

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/NestedSortable

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/listsort

OK, well, that was problematic...

So now I have decided to use MacPorts to reinstall all -- using this guide:

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/MAMP

First thing I did was run

sudo port -f uninstall installed

...to get rid of everything I had installed earlier this evening!

Downgrading PHP from 5.3 to 5.2 on Snow Leopard

Tonight I am following these instructions to downgrade my installation of PHP from 5.3 to 5.2, so that I can reliably develop Drupal and WordPress on my Mac:

http://trikks.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/downgrading-php-5-3-0-to-5-2-10-on-snow-leopard-server/

I'll let you know if I run into any snags...

First thing I needed to do was to install the latest version of MacPorts, which I got from here:

http://www.macports.org/install.php

The package installer was fine. One thing to keep in mind is, if you have a Terminal window open before you install MacPorts, you've got to restart Terminal in order to use it!

"sudo port install php52 +mysql5 +sqlite" takes a LONG time...

I tried this, but it did not work:
http://trikks.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/restart-all-running-services-in-os-x-server/

sudo: serveradmin: command not found