Drupal

Lets say you have found a bug in someone else's contributed module. It happens! You could raise an issue in the issue queue for that module, or you could fix it yourself and contribute the fix back to the community. You are not always going to be able to fix it yourself, but if you can, you should, as this will help everyone, not just the module maintainer.

The codebase I am working on uses hierarchical select with taxonomy to make it easy for editors to tag from nested terms. Pathauto is used to create the URL alias for the content type. We need both the parent and child terms in the URL, so use this token: [save-lineage-termpath-raw].

I have a confession to make. This site runs on Drupal 5! Back in its day, Drupal 5 was a great system. But it a far cry from what Drupal 7 now offers. I have plenty of experience upgrading sites from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6, but I want to take this all the way to Drupal 7.

I found out about a handy new Firefox tip today while watching a Drupalize.me video, which I thought I would share.

As you may or may not know, you can assign a keyword to a bookmark. When you type in that keyword into the Firefox URL bar, you will be sent off to the full URL. So it saves a bit of typing.

I was fortunate enough to be part of the biggest DrupalCon so far, DrupalCon London. 1,751 Drupalistas were there, attending a total of 73 sessions, participating in code sprints, making friends and having a good time.

With the default PHP settings, Drush will probably get a fatal error because the PHP memory limit is too low. Thankfully, the solution is very simple.

A client is using the Drupal node title module and, as part of an SEO review, I want to see how many duplicate meta titles there are.

I recently had a problem where PHP was timing out at 60 seconds when running a Drupal site using XAMPP on Windows (yeah I know, Windows and XAMPP sucks). I tried changing my php.ini file to 240 seconds, but it made no difference, it would still time out at 60 seconds. Here are the steps I made to fix this issue.

To revert a features module during deployment, add an update hook and call features_revert with the name of the module and the component you want to revert.

There are many reasons why you might want to add extra validation rules to a Drupal form. This is a simple tutorial on how to add a validation function to an existing form that is generated from a module that you have not created yourself. It could be in a core or contributed module.