Drupal

Command to checkout Drupal from the drupal.org cvs repository. This will checkout the latest tag in the Drupal-6 branch. It will add it to a local folder called drupal6.

Advanced Forum (Drupal module) comes with a few variants on the theme. The following can be added to the sites main theme style sheet and adjusted to suit. This will override most of the colours of that come with Advanced Forum.

This example will print our human readable information about the $_SESSION inside a drupal_set_message. You can replace the $_SESSION with any other variable or array (or object).

Drupal has turned 8 today, so happy birthday is in order. It is a day for the whole Drupal community to celebrate what they have created, a fantastic project/product. Not only has Drupal survived 8 years in the ultra fast paced web market, but it is going from strength to strength. Well done everyone.

Add to the .htaccess file when Drupal is install in a subfolder of a main site.

Here is an nice interview with Scott Mattoon from Sun Microsystems. He is talking about why Drupal is great.

Drupal has won Packt Publishing's Open Source CMS Award for 2008. This is the second year in a row that Drupal has won the overall CMS award and is in addition to the Best PHP Based Open Source CMS Award for 2008.

Drupal has one the 2008 Best PHP Based Open Source CMS from Packt Publishing. It beat fellow finalists Joomla and CMS Made Simple, who ere tied for runner up. It seems that Drupal's highly module framework and thriving community are two factors that tipped the award in its favour.

Out of the box Drupal will display a simple Access Denied message is a user is trying to access content that they do not have permission to. This is not exactly user friendly. A better solution is to redirect the user to the login form and when the user logs in, redirect them back to the content that they want to see. There are two main ways to achieve this.

Every now and again the node permissions table on a Drupal site can go out of whack. The result is that some users may get an accessed denied message when trying to access pages.

This is fairly easy to fix on a "normal size" website. You simply go to admin -> content -> post settings and click "Rebuild permissions".