Notes on Drupal, web development, AI tools and content creation.
11 April 2011
I remember reading on some post online about developers using virtual environments as a development server. On my mac I use MAMP for development. But using a virtual environment allows you to create…
30 March 2011
The backup and migrate module is an awesome module that you can use to create a MySQL dump file. You can use it to schedule database backups to the server filesystem, remote FTP server or even an…
21 March 2011
When I upgraded zugec.com to Drupal 7 I had to find another syntax highlighter because the previous one that I used in Drupal 6 was GeSHi but this module hadn't been upgraded to Drupal 7 at the time…
18 August 2010
When you get an editor asking how they can manage content on a Drupal site, sometimes you just can't send them to admin/content/node page to manage the site. Maybe you only want certain editors to…
10 July 2010
On some Drupal sites having the taxonomy links point to the "taxonomy/term/tid" can really break the design of a site. Sometimes you want to redirect the user to a custom views page instead of the…
25 June 2010
Here are my notes on how to setup Apache Solr for a Drupal site on Linode hosting. Make sure you are up to date. Set your host name. You must install Java. Go to src director. Download Solr. Untar…
11 May 2010
If you are looking for a way to hide specific content types from the core Drupal search result then checkout the Search config module. It's a good idea to use this module if you are using the Content…
4 May 2010
Views slideshow module is a great module which allows you to create slideshows from a views results. It makes it very easy to create a block that rotates the latest blog posts for example. To install…
31 March 2010
A project that I’m currently working on requires a classifieds system which is fairly straight forward to setup. I’m using the location module for users to specify a location of the classified. To…
14 February 2010
You'll need to create a custom module and use the hook_form_alter() function. Please note that the $form['taxonomy'][2]['#default_value'] is the vocabulary id.
14 February 2010
First you'll have to make use of hook_form_alter() function. Now the node reference will look for a example_change_node_reference() function which will return an array of options. Make sure you pass…
11 February 2010
The Search Lucene API module is an alternative search module which can be used on your Drupal site. It's powered by a stripped down version of the Zend Lucene Search which is a PHP port of Apache…
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