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A Visual Analysis of Drupal Modules

Add CommentShareSource Articles13Friday, June 13, 2008By adminInspired by Laura’s recent post, I decided it would be fun to run some of the data from DrupalModules.com through Wordle. So, I wrote a script to parse the entire collection of released Drupal modules. Over 2000 descriptions, written by hundreds of different module developers, were analyzed. This image

Is that site running Drupal?

These range from super easy stuff like checking for CHANGELOG.txt to checking the source for a reference to “drupal.css” (Drupal 4.7) to checking for common paths like taxonomy/term/1, and /user, (which might be aliased to something else with something like Pathauto/Path Redirect module), and so on. However, since Drupal 4.6, there’s a super geeky trick

Drupal 6 AHAH forms: The easy way

Comments (2)SourceTutorialsBookmark/Search this post with:Delicious DeliciousDigg DiggStumbleUpon StumbleUponFacebook FacebookGoogle GoogleYahoo YahooTechnorati Technorati28Friday, March 28, 2008By adminToday, I was working with drupal 6’s AHAH form elements. Initially, I was delighted at how well they worked. That delight turned to confusion once I realized that the form elements I had put in the menu callback of the

Lullabot Announces the Launch of FastCompany.com Website on Drupal

Add CommentShareSource Articles12Tuesday, February 12, 2008By adminFebruary 12, 2008 — Built by teams from Lullabot, Achieve Internet, Treehouse Interactive, Advomatic, and Mansueto Digital, the new FastCompany.com web site combines rich editorial content with advanced networking tools for industry watchers and professionals. The upgraded site integrates the websites’ editorial features with Company of Friends, Fast Company’s

Drupal CSS Coding Standards

Add CommentSourceTutorialsBookmark/Search this post with:Delicious DeliciousDigg DiggStumbleUpon StumbleUponFacebook FacebookGoogle GoogleYahoo YahooTechnorati Technorati13Thursday, March 13, 2008By adminOn the #drupal IRC channel, Excallibur points out that there are no coding standards for CSS. I’d like to propose some straightforward ones. Note that I am not intentionally omitting indentation within rules, but am having trouble with my code

Drupal trick: Returning a themed menu tree with nothing more than the system path

Add CommentSourceTutorialsBookmark/Search this post with:Delicious DeliciousDigg DiggStumbleUpon StumbleUponFacebook FacebookGoogle GoogleYahoo YahooTechnorati Technorati5Wednesday, December 5, 2007By adminI remember something a long time teacher said, “Nick, if you make a suit out of a gorrilla, the arms are too long.” I forgot why that was relevent to the topic of theming menu trees. Moving on, here’s a

Using Lighttpd as a static file server for Drupal

Add CommentSourceArticlesBookmark/Search this post with:Delicious DeliciousDigg DiggStumbleUpon StumbleUponFacebook FacebookGoogle GoogleYahoo YahooTechnorati Technorati2Wednesday, January 2, 2008By adminThis article discusses Drupal 5.5 and Lighttpd 1.4, with special consideration for the imagecache module 5.x-1.3. Building websites that can handle high amounts of traffic involves finding points of scalability in the network architecture. There is a lot of discussion

Enabling New Modules Via Update.php

Add CommentSourceTutorialsBookmark/Search this post with:Delicious DeliciousDigg DiggStumbleUpon StumbleUponFacebook FacebookGoogle GoogleYahoo YahooTechnorati Technorati16Wednesday, January 16, 2008By adminUPDATE: There’s a better way. I work with 3 other developers, all of whom have their own local sandbox of our site. Since we’re constantly adding new modules, I found a simple way to enable a new module via another

Enabling New Modules Via Update.php

Add CommentSourceTutorialsBookmark/Search this post with:Delicious DeliciousDigg DiggStumbleUpon StumbleUponFacebook FacebookGoogle GoogleYahoo YahooTechnorati Technorati16Wednesday, January 16, 2008By adminUPDATE: There’s a better way. I work with 3 other developers, all of whom have their own local sandbox of our site. Since we’re constantly adding new modules, I found a simple way to enable a new module via another

Enabling/Installing New Modules via Update.php: The Complete Solution

Add CommentSourceTutorialsBookmark/Search this post with:Delicious DeliciousDigg DiggStumbleUpon StumbleUponFacebook FacebookGoogle GoogleYahoo YahooTechnorati Technorati18Friday, January 18, 2008By adminIn our last episode of enabling new modules via update.php, Steve McKenzie pointed me to a better method: module_enable(). A quick test found, however, that it didn’t run the install files, and didn’t rebuild the module files cache. So after

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