Embedding Views snippet

Embedding Views snippet

21 June 2010 by jay boodhun

This snippet is useful if you want to embed views in your content without having to install modules to do this small task.

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Pushing staging configs and content to live with Deployment framework

Pushing staging configs and content to live with Deployment framework

25 January 2010 by jay boodhun

Deployment from staging sites to live environment is now easier with the Deployment Framework in Drupal.

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Leveraging Drupal with Pressflow for high performance sites

Leveraging Drupal with Pressflow for high performance sites

10 January 2010 by jay boodhun

Pressflow is a fork of Drupal built with enhanced performance, scalability, and data integrity.

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Create Drupal User programatically (with profile field values)

Create Drupal User programatically (with profile field values)

15 December 2009 by jay boodhun

While i was working on a project recently, i needed to create user accounts programatically through my own module, save some profile fields information and also assign a role to these new users.

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Drupal for Firebug

Drupal for Firebug

13 December 2009 by jay boodhun

This is a very useful plugin for firefox that can be used to debug query information from your Drupal site whilst in development. This plugin extends the Firefox browser's Firebug module and displays Devel information in your firebug console.

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Create Image Submit Button with hook_form_alter in Drupal

Create Image Submit Button with hook_form_alter in Drupal

10 December 2009 by jay boodhun

With most of the sites i built there has been a need for me to use customised submit buttons. While some of them were fine with just CSS, some required image buttons to be used. Drupal form api doesn't support input submit button type as image, so i had to use the help of PHPtemplate overrides and hook_form_alter to achieve this.

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Essential Drupal 6 Modules

Essential Drupal 6 Modules

08 December 2009 by jay boodhun

After building a few sites with Drupal 6, i have made a list of some of the best modules available for the CMS. Drupal is considered as an out of the box CMS with bundled functionality like user management, menu management and content management as core. Once you start integrating modules the CMS becomes super powerful. The tricky part is to evaluate and identify which ones.

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