Drupal

Drupal version control

Every day, we deal with version control. It’s good to know about the best practices, especially in Drupal projects. Pascal updated us about how we work with SVN and gave us some very interesting tips and hints.

Big in Lucerne - Lessons Learned

Together with clou kreativ (www.cloukreativ.ch) we created www.biginlucerne.com, a photo contest campaign in Lucerne, Switzerland. We used Drupal as a tool to allow users upload, rate, comment, share images. In this presentation Slava Rys explains some core functions, problems that occured during development as well as some insight about how the site was built.

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Drupal Monitor Version 1.7 available

We just released the latest version of Drupal Monitor. There are multiple improvements in the drupalmonitor.com client as well as on the drupalmonitor.com site dashboard. You can download version 1.7 here. We highly recommend to update the module right away. You simply need to copy the files to the current module folder. There are no DB updates.

We recently introduced Drupal Farm status feature which you seem to like. We could double the Drupal sites that are monitored with drupalmonitor.com.

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Drush: Drupal auf der Kommandozeile

Als Entwickler liebt man automatisierte Arbeitsabläufe. Vieles in Drupal lässt sich über die die Administrationsfläche einstellen. Das ist gut, wenn man aber immer und immer wieder den gleichen Ablauf abklicken muss, wird das langweilig. Mit Drush kann man typische Abläufe über die Kommandozeile ausführen. In der täglichen Arbeit nutzen wir Drush. Die beliebtesten Drush Commands:

Using of CCK filefield widget in a Drupal custom form to send mailattachement

1. Create a CCK field using the type 'File' and the widget 'File Upload' (we will use 'field_file') 2. Create a custom module for the form processing <code>

Drupal cheat sheet

Over the years, we compiled quite a bit of source code bits in our blog. This is the result! If you are a developer, you'll love. If you are not a developer - let's call em *geeks*.