tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35161478205546884252024-03-15T00:39:14.700-04:00My Drupal Notesnmchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753416640068742514noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516147820554688425.post-6743041053056599072012-12-01T10:39:00.000-05:002012-12-01T10:39:19.097-05:00Quick Drupal Development and PrototypingHow do you do quick Drupal development testing and prototyping?
I'm a Windows power user, but I work with a lot of Linux servers. One of my favorite ways to do quick Drupal development, testing and prototyping is to use the Bitnami Drupal stack: an Ubuntu virtual machine image that I can spawn multiple copies of and is easy and ready to go. Drupal is already installed along with nmchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753416640068742514noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516147820554688425.post-6964333343228531982012-12-01T10:25:00.002-05:002012-12-01T10:25:56.791-05:00Drupal Memory PerformanceDrupal has been known to be quite resource intensive, but I'm happy to hear about the improvements that are being made for Drupal 8. I just wanted to share this interesting post I found on Drupal and the PHP Memory Limit:
Why does Drupal need so much memory? Among other things, because it has a cache problem (which of course saves your database) Drupal currently likes to cache ALL views in onenmchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753416640068742514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516147820554688425.post-62783903938827312902012-11-01T14:20:00.000-04:002012-12-01T10:18:24.673-05:00Creating an iCal Feed for a Single Node in Drupal 7Here are updated instructions on how you can create an iCal Feed for a single node in Drupal 7 with the new Date iCal module. The functionality to create iCal Feeds has been separated from the Drupal Calendar module to the Date iCal module.
Create a Block View for the content type(s) that you want to create the iCal Feed. Keep in mind that this block needs to be put on your node page, so nmchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753416640068742514noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516147820554688425.post-35363225599250970552012-10-02T09:25:00.000-04:002012-10-03T22:02:11.561-04:00Views Attachment in Drupal 7I've seen answered a few questions on Stackoverflow and the Drupal StackExchange on creating a View with attachment. Here's how to do it in Drupal 7....
When to use a Views Attachment
Perhaps you'd like to show a block of a particular type of content like News in a side bar of your webpage. You already know that you can easily create a list of the top 5 News items (title only) nmchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753416640068742514noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516147820554688425.post-37836918698612791552012-07-13T20:17:00.002-04:002012-07-14T16:21:27.682-04:00How to Create a Custom Ubercart Payment GatewayIf you're looking to create your own Ubercart payment gateway for payment processing on a site outside of Drupal (eg. redirect to an external payment site like PayPal or Moneris hosted checkout), then hopefully the following instructions will help you get started...
Step 1: Create your payment gateway module's .info file and start a blank .module file.
Step 2: Define the gateway in your .nmchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753416640068742514noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516147820554688425.post-81626060609411360312012-07-11T22:44:00.000-04:002012-07-14T16:10:25.441-04:00Introduction to Using Drupal CacheFor anyone that stumbles on my site, I thought I would share this helpful article from Lullabot on A beginner's guide to caching data in Drupal 7. I found it both interesting and useful. I hope that it will be enlightening to you as well.
Building complicated, dynamic content in Drupal is easy, but it can come
at a price. A lot of the stuff that makes a site engaging can spell
'nmchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753416640068742514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3516147820554688425.post-52647471395225301252012-07-09T22:05:00.000-04:002012-07-14T16:10:50.279-04:00List Related/Similar Nodes using Views 3Want to show a list of related or similar nodes in a block on the current node's page? All you need is Views.
These instructions will help you create a View of related nodes (based on shared taxonomy terms) in order of relevance. Nodes that share more terms with the current node are shown at the top of the list. For example, if you have a node IPhone 4S node with terms Gadget,nmchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753416640068742514noreply@blogger.com0