Category: Drupal
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Why you should not use Drupal anymore
I’ve started using Drupal on 2007. For about 9 years I visits drupal.org almost on daily basis, I released a module, I suggested some patches, participated to local events and so on. I’ve started working on Drupal with Drupal 5 and I ended on Drupal 7 with a long time on Drupal 6. In the […]
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From Drupal to Django: how to migrate contents
In a recent article I explain the motivations for an upgrade from a no longer maintained Drupal 6 installation to Django 1.8. I will now cover more in detail the migration techniques adopted in the upgrade and I’ll deepen the models and the relationships. Structure If you’re a drupaler, you’re familiar with the node/NID/edit and the node/add/TYPE […]
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Guide to migrate a Drupal website to Django after the release of Drupal 8
I maintain a news website written in Drupal since 2007. It is a Drupal 6, before was a 5. I made many Drupal 7 installations in these years and I went to three Drupal local conventions. This is a guide on how to abandon Drupal if you already knows some basics of Django and Python. Drupal on LAMP: […]
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Clear Varnish cache via PHP: a Drupal 7 proof of concept
Using Varnish as reverse proxy or proxy is an useful approach to reduce the load of webservers like Apache. In Drupal 7 I’ve to clear the varnish cache of a specific domain when Drupal caches are globally cleared. Drupal has the right hook invoked when cache are cleared: Now this piece of code simply adds […]
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Django and Drupal integration using drush via SSH
Some months ago I talked about how to achieve a unified login from Django to Drupal using drush. The basic assumption was that both Drupal and Django are on the same server. What if the two components are on different servers? Paramiko is a SSH2 protocol library aimed to provide simple classes to make SSH […]
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