More often than we’d like to acknowledge we get a need to remove Subversion .svn files in the working copy. This will do it:\ find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

A very handy PDF with a list of variables available when themeing Drupal: Download PDF

Ok, finally Google is starting to make a move against Wikipedia, with the private launch of Google Knol. The specifics of the system are not yet known, but from what we can read between the lines, the interesting difference betwen Knol and Wikipedia is that in Knol content will be authored by a “group of...

The best and, honestly, the only usable SFTP and/or FTP plugin for Eclipse is Target Management. This plugin makes over-the-SSH development in Eclipse a practical possibility. One of the greatest features of this plugin is that it allows working with files, without creating a project, something that vanilla Eclipse is insanely paranoid about. Out-of-the-box Eclipse...

Filtering content through URI tagging was initially popularized by Del.icio.us and is now a common way to quickly navigate content. For instance, in a system that supports this type of navigation, you can constract a URL:\ http://example.com/tag/drupal+news,rss and get a vertical view of the domain data. In this markup, “+” stands for logical AND, whereas...

In Drupal 5, if you want the User Profile page (e.g. http://example.com/user/stevejobs) to display latest comments by that user, you can apply a quick hack: Create or edit user.profile.tpl.php file in your theme Add the following code anywhere (wherever you want latest comments to appear) in the file:\ <?php$output = ""; $nlimit = 7;$userid=$user->uid;// ATTENTION:...

Just how addicted to Apple are you? Apparently, I am 94% addicted. Not really a surprise to anybody who knows me :)

As you know Drupal displays the “Read more” link among all other after-teaser links in the blog postings view. This is not a usual user-experience. Most users expect “read more” link to be right after the teaser part of the posting. It can get confusing, so following is a quick-n-dirty hack that can fix it...

Usually, you do not want websites that are still under development to be visible to the Web at large. Even if you do not care about that, at the least - you do not want such websites to be indexed by search engine bots. Bottomline - you want the “dev” websites behind a lock. One...

It’s official - we are migrating to FCKeditor A WYSIWYG HTML editor is a necessary part of any Web-based, CMS system. You simply can not expect user audience to be fluent in HTML. We’ve been using TinyMCE with IMCE (for image upload), in all our Drupal installations, for a long time now. About 2 years...

In our recent post we tried to introduce you with the HTTP request life-cycle in Drupal. If you read the post, hopefully you have a better understanding of what stages a request goes through in Drupal. Today we will try to give a specific example of how this understanding can help you in your daily...

One of the most powerful ways to debug a web application is using logging; especially for a highly complex system like Drupal. PHP comes with a built-in logging function: error_log();. The exact behavior of this function depends on several configuration parameters. We suggest that you log into standard Apache error log and create one log...

You can not use YouTube’s “embedable” code snippet in a WYSIWYG Javascript editor like TinyMCE. That can get very uncomfortable, leading to frequent need to switch back-and-forth between the HTML view and WYSIWYG view. Not user-friendly at all. Fortunately, TinyMCE does have a “plugin” that supports Youtube. Download: file youtube_xhtml_workaround.zip from the YouTube Button Issue...

In this blog post I try to list the sequence of steps Drupal 5 takes to process an HTTP request. I have not seen it all put together in any one place. I do, however, believe that understanding the request life-cycle is crucial to grasping how a web-system works, so I hope this post will...

An interesting review, from Aron Novak, of different feed aggregators available in Drupal: http://groups.drupal.org/node/4547