Drupal 7 notes - dealing with "ghost fields"

Came across a problem someone else on Drupal dubbed "ghost field" in one of the issue queues. My issue with ghost fields came about while setting up Profile2 to use in my profile (strangely), but the problem happens in other modules as well.

The problem

create a profile type (or modify the main one)
add a field
delete the field (I don't recall seeing any difference between saving data in the field or not)
try to add a new field with the same name, get an error saying the field name is already in use, but it doesn't appear in the "Add existing field" list

The solution

Dec

17

2010

Starting over

So. the provider I'm using for my reseller account got itself taken out by a zero day exploit, which apparently wiped out their main drive and most of their backup drive.

My possibly incorrect interpretation of the email they sent out suggests that the attack was just on the one server. I'm wondering if they were silly enough to have the backup drive in the same machine or if they were just unlucky enough to have triggered the attack or had it running while doing a backup.

Oct

12

2010

How in the hell do you alter forms?

In Drupal 6 you could do it with hook_form_alter()s in template.php or a helpful little module called Node and Comments Form Settings. With 7...I have no idea, but apparently not quite the way I've done it before.

Oct

09

2010

Beta!

I survived the alpha iterations! Learned a bit but didn't end up helping much (or at all really) aside from something like a bug report and confirming a UX issue. So now we're sitting on beta1 and I feel slightly more confident putting stuff here as from memory the betas are upgradeable. Alphas are not.

Apr

23

2010

Consolidation