Drupal
Because Network Solutions Sucks
One man's frustration is not lost in vain.
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The Drupal community, and open-source community at that, has always had the altruistic goal of being accessible to all. The hope is that as freelancers and tech gurus go out into the world, maybe we can help by making better, more secure websites.
And then you have piece-of-crap hosting like that of Network Solutions.
Now, I only bring this up because as I work with clients to get their internet presence setup, sometimes you're stuck working with their choice of hosting provider, hosting package, and admin credentials.
This means crazy php.ini setups, no ssh access (bec...
6 Tips: In the Know
So how do I stay 'in the know' and increase my Drupaliness?
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I'll go ahead and warn the readers that this article won't have any fancy code snippets or super dark magic to turn your site into ten billion dollars of reoccurring ad revenue. What it WILL do is give you some great pointers in ramping up your Drupal knowledge as you begin to take over the world...one Drupal site at a time.
Muahahahahahaha....but I digress.
1.) Stay on the channels
While you probably need some clout to get anything answered or explained in #drupal, #drupal-support is where the n00bies flock...and flock often. Although I wouldn't consid...
Portland January Meetup Tonight
Cookies and Lullabots at Hotel deLuxe
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Just a little reminder for the Drupalers in the Portland/Vancouver area that the Lullabot folks will be hosting a meet-up this fine evening (Wednesday, January 9) at the Hotel deLuxe. If bathing in a sea of Drupal experts while eating free cookies isn't enough, Jeremy and I will be there, too.
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The Power of template.php
A few techniques to help your designers.
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Theming a fresh Drupal site always gives the designers true glory. Well, its time that I help out my fellow programmers. After all, without us, its just a pretty drupal core.
First things first. I'm assuming that you and the designer are working on a clean theme, like zen. I'm also assuming the use of Drupal 5. Most of the code is available via drupal.org.
So what kinds of things can you do?
Custom id and class tags
The most important thing to know is that Drupal allows the modification of theme functions within this file. This means any...
Drupal Admin Theme
Designed as an admin theme yet can be used as a regular theme
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I started working on an admin theme for Drupal over two months ago in my spare time and just got around to packaging it up offering it up for download. I've used it on a a few client's sites and they seem to like it so hopefully someone else can get some use out of it.
As you may or may not know Drupal has the ability to switch from your site's theme to an admin theme when the user is logged in as an admin and in the "/admin" URL. Typically I used the Garland theme for this purpose as it looks different than any theme I've made so it's easy to tell if you the user are in th...
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Be sure to check out the latest from Smashing Magzine. They have a great article on CSS Specifity. Might be a review for some but still a good read.
There are a few variables that we can access from anywhere at anytime in Drupal, and the most important one is $user. The object
$usercontains (almost) everything you’ll ever need to know about the user that is currently surfing the web site.Be sure to check out 11 Heavens' article covering just about everything you need to know regarding the $user variable.