drupal

paddyApr 13,2008

drupal

Create project releases on Drupal CVS

I wanted to create a release of both the Dark and Sodelicious themes, and had an interesting time doinf it.

There is a lot of information on the Drupal website, notably the CVS quick-start guide for module and theme maintainers (http://drupal.org/handbook/cvs/quickstart).

In short, I had to clean up all the branches I had mistakenly created by
cvs tag -dB DRUPAL-6--1
where DRUPAL-6--1 is the branch name to be deleted.

paddyFeb 24,2008

drupal

Automatically backup Drupal databases through cron

With my hosting provider I have all Drupal sites installed under my public_html directory. Each Drupal instance uses a different database. I could generate a mysqldump command for each instance - but that would become out of date very quickly with the immanent upgrades to version 6.

The solution was to create a small script that searches all the sites folders for a settings.php file, extracts the relevant database connection information, and dumps and gzips the database.

paddyJul 24,2007

drupal

Bartelme Design the "dark" theme converted to Drupal

I have almost completed the conversion of the "dark" theme to Drupal. There are still a few outstanding display issues - but for the most part it seems to work OK. I have to say that it was/is a lot of work - but I do like it...

paddyJun 15,2006

drupal

Just set up Flock to start blogging!

That was easy! As simple as point and press. This just can't be natural!

Blogged with Flock

paddyMay 20,2006

drupal

Updated to Drupal 4.7 and applied the lock tables hack

Finally updated everying to 4.7 and applied the home-grown lock tables hack.so far so good.

paddyApr 16,2006

drupal

Script.aculo.us scripts for Drupal 4.7

Attached is a scriptaculous module that implements many of the visual effects available on http://script.aculo.us/

Installation

unpack the contents to your modules directory
copy the template.php file to your theme directory - please be careful and not replace willy-nilly existing template.php files
if you want blocks to have special effects, use the block.tpl.php template provided as an example
if you want nodes to have special effects, use the node.tpl.php template provided as an example

paddyMar 29,2006

drupal

It seems that I need to update taxonomy_image and FCKeditor to 4.7

It seems that I need to update taxonomy_image and FCKeditor to 4.7 API

The CVS versions of both modules use the old forms API.

They need to be updated to use the new API - looks like I have an interesting evening in front of me...

paddyMar 29,2006

drupal

Amadain.net upgraded to Drupal 4.7 beta 6

Amadain has been upgraded to Drupal 4.7 beta 6.

The upgrade went without fault. Modules were turned-off, the base system updated, the database upgraded, modules updated and finally re-enabled.

I have one issue with the weather module - I can't edit the settings of the block.

I had to apply a fix to get the menu displaying properly. And apply a 'fix' for want of a better phrase to by-pass the LOCK TABLES problem.

The latter now causes a SQL error - I'll have to fix that this evening.

Oh - yeah - I still need to get taxonomy_image working.

paddyFeb 28,2006

drupal

:-(( Drupal still requires LOCK TABLE permission

On testing Drupal 4.7 I was saddened to see that 4.7 still requires LOCK TABLE permission - only this time it's harder to fix.

Previously, the sole fix was in db_next_id in database.mysql.inc - of course such fixes are hotly contested and largey unsupported.

Now, two new functions have been added, db_lock_table and db_unlock_table. These are called to lock the variables and the cache tables in bootstrap.inc.

paddyFeb 24,2006