September 3, 2010
Late in the code sprint the last day of DrupalCON in Copenhagen, there was a lot of discussion going on about the upgrade path in Drupal 7. Questions of how to handle certain aspects of the process and prevent horrible flaming death when upgrading a site and its contrib modules. Upgrade processes, much like data migration, often become a sticky problem. Right now that stickiness has literally stuck the release of Drupal 7.
Regardless of the release status, folks are starting to...
- How to create presentations that entertain & inform.
I had the opportunity to present to a local organization in Salt Lake City on the techniques Lullabot uses for making kick...
I had a case where CCK nodereference wasn't populating the view field in the array, so I had to check to see if it was empty and then manually populate it.
I leave this code as a gift to posterity.
- Fri, Sep 3, 2010 by Brandon Tate
Building a website I recently ran into an issue where I had HTML search facets interacting with Drupal views. The user would click on the facet and it would filter the view depending on the argument. I ended up implementing hook_views_query_alter. To make sure the values I wanted to filter on were in the view, I added the search facets into the view as fields. This automatically joins the necessary tables so that you don’t have...
Wow! Code-Free Drupal Layout with Skinr, Fusion and Panels has been my best launch of an ebook ever. Thanks to everyone that's already purchased their copy. I hope you're enjoying it so far. I made a special offer to my mailing list yesterday and it was so hugely popular that I thought I'd extend it to everyone else too.
Anyone that has...
September 2, 2010
If you plan to use the securepages module behind a proxy that terminates SSL, there are some additional server configuration steps you need to take.
In order to detect what the protocol is in use, securepages tests the value of
$_SERVER['HTTPS']. Out of the box, this merely reflects the immediate connection to your proxy. If this protocol differs from that...Everyone knows the top-tier Drupal modules, but with over 5,000 modules available for Drupal it’s no surprise that many useful ones go unnoticed. As a public service to the Drupal community, Palantir is working to raise awareness of some of these unsung heroes.
In part 4 of our ongoing 5,162-part series, we present:...
- Plans for the Aegir 1.0 release and how we'll get there
Last week at DrupalCon Copenhagen Antoine Beaupre and I shared our plans for the 1.0 release of the...
I like Prepopulate. I like to have that pseudo-RESTful way of preloading a form to minimize the amount of work a user has to do to get to the point of submitting a form. But I also like clean URLs. This post reviews in detail a technique to use a single prepopulated nodereference field to prepopulate a bunch of other fields based on that reference. Since Prepopulate’s recent 2.0 release, it because a whole lot more difficult to use...
CivicActions has been working with Google's “Make the Web Faster” project team to make some (last minute) improvements that make Drupal 7 faster.