There’s a lot of good insight in this blog post from the creator of the Views module for Drupal. I’m a big fan of the module, and when I’ve had to dive into the code behind it, I’ve come away pretty impressed. That’s pretty rare for a Drupal module, IMNSHO. Also, if you don’t understand […]
Drupal – Designers vs Developers, can’t we get along? Read More »
Drupal provides a lot of hooks that you can leverage to make it work exactly how you want. I just finished tracing how some theme preprocessing functions were being executed, and realized that there are some subtle assumptions which I hadn’t understood earlier. These are my notes about two specific preprocessing hooks and when they
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On development, testing, and staging site you normally don’t want Drupal’s caching, and javascript/css aggregation features enabled. Drop the following into your sites settings.php file to override these settings. // disable performance caching$conf[‘cache’] = 0;$conf[‘block_cache’] = 0;$conf[‘preprocess_css’] = 0;$conf[‘preprocess_js’] = 0;
Development Enviroment for Drupal is an article I wish I’d found a year ago when it was originaly posted. Its an extensive description of how to use svn and other tools to maintain various Drupal environments synchronized. I’m pleased that it confirms my own decisions about how to use subversion to manage core and site-specific
For Drupal module developers, the hook_nodeapi function affords a lot of flexibility for interacting with nodes at various operation. If you just start pasting or writing code, you’ll quickly end up with a giant, messy switch statement. But there is a simpel way to keep your code nicely organized. First, lets take a look at
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