Drupal coder: hook_load and data isolation
You're peacefully coding a hook_load implementation in your latest drupal module, when your admin account suddenly gets "Access denied" errors looking at nodes. Yikes...read more
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Grokking Drupal: the taxonomy system
Taxonomy. That's what sets Drupal apart, and makes it so much more useful than many of its alternatives. But it's unduly intimidating at first: let's peek under the hood to see how to take advantage of...
View ArticleDrupal tips: showing recent searches
Some sites include a list of terms recently searched for. I've created a patch for Drupal adding this functionality to the current 4.6.x search module.read more
View ArticleDrupal coder: writing a Drupal XML-RPC service
XML-RPC is a very simple RPC service, but it may not be obvious how to provide it from Drupal. Here's how.read more
View ArticleDrupal admin: deleting many nodes
Ofttimes, when developing a site, you can be led to create or import a large number of custom nodes, for instance flexinodes, only to have to delete them later on. Doing it by hand in admin/content is...
View ArticleDrupal coder: configuring Zend Studio PHPDocumentor extension for Drupal
Zend Studio is a convenient environment to code in PHP, which is why many Drupal developers are using it. But some settings are necessary to ease its use, due to the specific extensions Drupal...
View ArticleUpdating drupal without file access
A few days ago, it was brought to my attention that something had been broken on the PHP-GTK community site during the 5.0 RC2 upgrade. The problem was easily identified as being codefilter.module...
View ArticleNew release system for OSInet contributions
The "heavy" modules OSInet contributes to Drupal (G2, Helpdesk, Zeitgeist) have now been placed under the new release system.Branches and releases have been created where applicable:read more
View ArticleDownloading modules when drupal.org is offline
Drupal.org being unavailable quite frequently these days, some may find it hard to download the module of their choice.Luckily, the downloads are static files served as public downloads outside Drupal...
View ArticleThe Drupal Block system from drop.org to Drupal 8: video from DrupalCon Prague
So DrupalCon Prague is almost over, and I can now share with you the video of my session about the history of the Drupal block system, from drop.org to Drupal 8, just as recorded on wednesday.The...
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