Drupal
Stage-specific Drupal settings with local_settings.php
The decision to store settings.php in your version control system can be sticky.
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PHP (5)
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Drupal Deployment Checklist
Here is a short list of things I check before finishing a new deployment. Database logging row limit (admin/settings/logging/dblog)
Artificial Intelligence
Trouble with Drupal, MySQL and non UTF-8 formats
I just figured out a fix for an annoyingly circuitous, tortuous, and baffling MySQL problem. I am not yet an expert of back-end system configuration,...
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A Drupal version of chicken vs. egg: external API content fetching and cron failures
Recently we had an interesting issue with one of our multi-site Drupal hosting deployments; the cron was not running regularly.
PHP
Facebook Usernames Not Available for All Pages (yet)
By now you may have heard about the frenzy for grabbing a personalized URL for Facebook. Within 15 minutes of the service being available Friday...
Artificial Intelligence
Drupal/AJAX: Exercise caution when using special foreign characters
I was recently working on a Brazilian Drupal 6.x site that uses CCK forms and needed some functionality to map a dropdown select list of states to...
Drupal
Automated CVS checkouts of Drupal Core + Contrib
If you've built out more than a few Drupal projects, you've probably gone through the same song & dance a number of times - find the most recent...
Drupal
Using PHP/MySQL w/Drupal to update missing Google Geocode data
We recently needed to fill missing geocode values in a project's database. Using some PHP magic and taking advantage of hook_cron() this is how we...
Drupal
Autocomplete, clearing form values and Drupal form fields
Some browsers like to be helpful and help by remembering certain form fields. I was having a problem with Firefox auto-populating my some of my form...
Drupal
How to Add a Field to the Drupal Contact form
Ever wish you could use the existing Drupal Contact module as your sitewide contact form and just add a field or two? You can and it's really easy.
PHP
Getting command line access to PHP and MySQL running MAMP on OSX
If you have MAMP installed on your Mac OS X box, you're probably going to want command line access to those applications at some point. Assuming...