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Submitted by zero dev on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 16:51
Background reading
http://www.nicklewis.org/drupal-hackers-cookbook/theming/hook_theme-and-...
Nicks excellent run through is a little bit confusing when it comes to working out whether you're using the verbose or preprocess methods. This walk through is going to use just the preprocess method. We'll create a very simple module that provides a simple login block, or if logged in, a few links through to account, account edit and log out.
Submitted by zero dev on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 16:54
What we're trying to achieve
Say for example you have a lot of custom modules exisiting as git repositories and you want to have a way of managing them for multiple sites. Say for example, something like drush up custom_modules, you sort of can with git submodules. In this way we'd beable to make a commit in one place and easily pull it down into our various sites.
Method
Using git submodules we'll create a repo for the custom modules and use git submodule add to add each module.
Submitted by zero dev on Tue, 08/23/2011 - 11:29
Ever spent for ever serializing and unserializing arrays before storing them in the database in Drupal with all the attendant heart break that involves? Well, you just don't need to.
Submitted by zero dev on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 23:43
(Note - this turns out to be about command line PHP rather than the Batch API)
We were looking at a problem. How to convert 350,000 user profiles, built using the core Drupal Profile module into a tidier single table using a custom module solution?
Submitted by zero dev on Sun, 01/23/2011 - 23:27
Welcome to the new D7 version of the site!
The site wot I upgraded
Over the past few days I've learnt a fair bit about Drupal 7 upgrading this site and upgrading a clients site
Submitted by zero dev on Sun, 12/19/2010 - 21:38
I read with interest an article in the register many months ago regarding the cost of government websites, where the conclusion was
What's the lesson? The licensing model of the underlying technology isn't a significant factor in determining website costs. Free and Open Source Software won't matter when a consultancy or outsourcing company loads up a contract with tasks requiring many person weeks of expensive billable time.
Which made me think again about how Drupal can be made cheap.
Submitted by zero dev on Tue, 04/13/2010 - 00:24
Working as a contractor you come into contact with a wide range of company 'cultures'. The longer you're there the more likely you are to experience the weird edges that don't marry up with the rebranding exercises.
I've been working at an agency for a couple of months now and I'm coming towards the end of the contract. One of the big things that changed about a month ago was I got a Mac to develop on. What I didn't realise was I also got a new first line technical support dude. Let's call him Algernon, or Algy for short (the names have been changed to protect the guilty).
Submitted by zero dev on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:28
This is an ugly little hack to get around the fact that those lovely neat Admin module links disappear when you don't print $content in your tpl files. The other method would be to use something like contemplate, or panels to avoid the problem completly.
ok, here is the hack. 1. create a module admin_links:
Submitted by zero dev on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 21:31
When you have a panel or a front page design that does not require a breadcrumb or a title you can either use CSS or Drupal's template_preprocess_page function
By overriding elements of it in template.php in your theme folder you can alter the defaults and change a number of things. It looks like this:
