Drupal
PHP error handling via htaccess
Recently I had a staging website running on our production box. 1 of our external supplier wanted me to put php display-error on But die to this showing the very few (ah hum) errors on our production websites I had to find way to do this per domain. Turns out it’s very easy and can [...]
Special Characters in a HTML select option Drupal Form
So if you are creating a Drupal form and want to have special charaters like ü, ö, ä etc make sure your Drupal module is encoded UTF-8 and use the characters as is – ü, ö, ä
Drupal Creating a node while creating it’s parent node
My content type needed pictures, copy items and many attributes but also it needed extra child nodes (content types).
Opening Drupal .module and .install PHP Files in Dreamweaver with Code Coloring
I use Adobe Dreamweaver to code all my websites because of the code highlighting site organisation, upload, SVN setting and mainly because I have spent my entire 10 year doing web work using Dreamweaver as my editor. When working with Drupal, Dreamweaver doesn’t open .module and .install files automatically. The solution is pretty easy so [...]
Upgrading Drupal
So there is a basic set of procedures to follow for a Drupal upgrade – do these and all will be fine! The first 2 important things to do are Backup Do a dry run Rules to follow Preparation Update Core Update Contrib Modules Update Custom Modules Update Themes Update Odds and Ends Neil Cameron [...]
How to reset the Drupal theme registry
While developing on my remote server I found that my node-blog.tpl was not being recognised. The Drupal function to reset the theme registry is drupal_rebuild_theme_registry (D6). You can add it to your template.php while developing: Adding it to template.php works, of course, even if where you’re altering the theme registry (and need to see it [...]
Drupal CCK
When you first install Drupal the basic install gives you 2 content types, Story and Blog. These are OK if you want 1 big chunk of content – but really what website page is 1 big chunk of content – I would even argue that a blog post shouldn’t be 1 big chunk of content.
Looking at WordPress and Drupal
Why now? So my time at Tui-ski, SHG, Tui, Tuitravel PLC, Tui-STO or what ever you want to call it is finally come to an end. After 9 years and 8 months I am finally moving on to pastures new. Sometimes change is what is needed. Having helped build the most comprehensive web platform for [...]
