PUBLIC MARKS with tags drupal & cleverplanet

Setup Drupal 6.x with Apache Solr on Tomcat6 and Ubuntu

this is something all budding themers can make use of, and save yourself a few minutes as well.

As a developer, one area of frustration I've frequently encountered in the past is how to control block placement and visibility from code. One of the strengths of Drupal is the abililty to administer most of the site from the site itself. This powerful ability, among others, has spelled doom for the webmaster. At the same time, there are some parts of building a site that a case can be made that would be better accomplished with code. Building blocks is arguably one such case.

How To: Manage Drupal Permissions More Easily : A collection of modules which extend the level of control, make it easier to focus on the permissions that matter (relative to what you’re setting up at the time), and remove the visual clutter from this extensive web page.

For a fairly large community site (think OG, node access control, private messages etc), we were getting in trouble giving authenticated users a decent browsing experience. The worst page was taking 16 (yes, sixteen) seconds to load and others were getting in trouble too now that the number of users and nodes was growing rapidly. Not acceptable of course, so we went searching for solutions:

Suite à la mise en production d’une nouvelle version d’un gros site communautaire basé sur Drupal, le serveur ne répondait plus au bout d’une heure… Voici les étapes pour identifier et corriger le problème.

Translating Menus in Drupal 6

Displaying hierarchical content is a common request of database-driven web sites. Drupal gives you great flexibility in doing this without writing a single line of code, using a couple of battle-tested modules.

With Commit #167487, a new form element has been added to Drupal core to provide an alternative means of selecting items. Now, next to 'select' (combobox, list), checkboxes and radios, core carries the 'tableselect' element. This element allows developers to easily create tables with selectable rows. Ideal for those situations where you have to provide a lot of data on the items to the user.

Organized developments with Drupal

Quick custom CCK date formatter

En voyant une telle liste de modules ajoutés à Drupal pour le site Natural Glam, est-on en droit de se demander si Drupal sait faire quelque chose tout seul ?