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The survey shows that three systems lead the CMS brand race: WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal.

Add CommentSource28Monday, July 28, 2008By adminhttp://www.waterandstone.com/downloads/2008OpenSourceCMSMarketSurvey.pdf The survey shows that three systems lead the race: WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal. The survey concludes that these three systems have opened up a large lead on the rest of the pack to become the dominant brands in the market. The author, Ric Shreves, states: “WordPress enjoys great brand

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Avoiding the Template.php of Doom (or, Overriding Theme Functions in Modules)

Add CommentShareSource Articles16Monday, June 16, 2008By adminDrupal’s theming system offers developers and designers a flexible way to override default HTML output when specific portions of the page are rendered. Everything from the name of the currently logged in user to the HTML markup of the entire page can be customized by a plugin “theme”. Unfortunately,

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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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Let Template.php Eat Static

Add CommentSourceTutorialsBookmark/Search this post with:Delicious DeliciousDigg DiggStumbleUpon StumbleUponFacebook FacebookGoogle GoogleYahoo YahooTechnorati Technorati14Saturday, April 14, 2007By adminMy arch-nemisis is overly complex logic in template.php and page.tpl.php files. It seems to me that when a drupal codebase becomes brittle and unmaintainable, the culprit is usually going to be hundreds of conditional lines of php code in a

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