Category: How To
How to do simple tasks - a lot of these will be links to other sites.
Assembling Pages with Drupal - Blocks vs. Context vs. Panels
As with many facets of Drupal, and coding in general, there are multiple ways to accomplish the same task.
Chris Shattuck: Notes from moving from Drupal Views 2 to Views 3 Alpha -
I decided to jump into Views Alpha 3 because I wanted to explore the Views Infinite Scroll module, and I have a friend using it on a large production site without any problems. Here are some notes from the upgrade experience.
No update.php run was required - nice.
We love drush here - and this is a great little tutorial on how to use the newest drush 3 features effectively.
Lullabot: New features in Drush 3 - It just keeps getting better. Seriously.
So… Drush. Are you using it yet? If not get drushing!—or whatever you call it. If you're not familiar with it, Drush is a command line interface for Drupal sites. It's the bees knees, if you ask me. You can use it to enable/disable modules, run update.php, get a SQL dump of your site, and all sorts of other magically delicious things.
The problem is, it just keeps getting better. I almost can't keep up with it! The recent release of Drush 3 includes all sorts of goodies, and every day I seem to find more and more. I'm going to take a quick look at a few of them that I'm most excited about.
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[Drupal Planet]
2bits: Reducing server resource utilization for busy sites by implementing fast 404s in Drupal - One of the things that a default Drupal installation does is that it handles 404s for static files within Drupal itself. In other words, a 404 for a .css or .jpg file causes a full Drupal bootstrap.
Greg Harvey: Panels 3 And The 960 Grid System -
This post was going to be longer, but I just lost the entire completed document because the worst (and probably most expensive at $15/day, yes DAY) mobile Internet provider in the world, EVER, just dropped my connection mid-submission and for the zillionth time today. So you'll have to make do with an angry and hurried synopsis of what I would've written.
[Drupal Planet]
Fleet Thought: Programmatically Adding Pre-Built Option Lists to Drupal Webforms -
I'm a huge fan of the Webform module (and building Drupal forms in general), and I just today noticed a feature I hadn't previously taken advantage of. This is the ability to programmatically add what are called "pre-built" option lists that can be used in your webforms.
I Can Localize: Consistant translations with glossary -
It’s taken a while to build, but it’s finally ready – a global translation glossary for each client.
FunnyMonkey: Migrating From Ning to Drupal -
As many of you may have heard, Ning recently eliminated its free networks and laid off 40% of its staff. Currently, Ning supports exporting users; for those of you interested in migrating your community members from Ning into Drupal, you have two well developed options at your disposal: