It’s all about drupal coding and whining.
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 …
In a recent article I explain the motivations for an upgrade from a no longer maintained Drupal 6 installation to Django 1.8.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 …
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: …
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 …
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 …
I’m installing a Pressflow 6 on a new machine running CentOS 6. I’m using Apache MPM Worker with FastCGI. Then I get the classical e-mail error: Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site administrator if the problem persists. Then I try to use sendmail: Where testmail is a file containing these lines: And i …
I’m working on a project that has two hearts: a Django for a custom CRM with thousands of imported users, and Drupal, where those users should login. This howto apply on: Drupal 7.x (slave) Django 1.5 (master) There are many single/centralized sign-on solutions around, like OpenID, OAuth CAS and external services like SecurePass to do the …
Valid for: Drupal 7, Views 3. I have two multiple text fields on a Drupal 7 content type. I want to display those fields paired by delta in a view. Here the code I used in my module named mymodule.module. Thanks to hook_views_pre_render(). I use this piece of code to pair Youtube URLs and plain …
How to use different date format per language in drupal, using i18n module.
Solving the wrong socket problem with MySQL MySQLi on Drupal.
