According to Drupal’s founder Dries Buytaert, Drupal is shifting all gears towards improving its user experience. Developer features, which had been the #1 concern in the past, is now pushed back to second seat. The reason for the change in focus is this graph:
The number of keyword searches for “joomla” on Google engulfed “drupal” four-fold. [...]
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The Tagadelic module is used for creating a tag cloud from Taxonomy terms. Starting with Drupal 6.x, Tagadelic has a problem including the most recent tags into the cloud it generates. Particularly, this is because of its caching method. The problem can be solved momentarily by clearing the site’s cache (Performance->Clear Cache). However, the site’s [...]
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Most of us bloggers use FeedBurner to track the behavior of our feed subscribers. However, we are often not able to track ALL of our feed subscribers, because only a portion of them actually click on our FeedBurner icon to subscribe — the rest subscribes via an RSS reader, which does not go through FeedBurner.
The [...]
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Currently, this blog is powered and hosted by WordPress.com. The cost of being free is that CSS customization and a bunch of other things are not under our control. Because lately I’ve been putting my notes on the Drupal book up on the blog, which involves showing pieces of PHP codes, I begin to see [...]
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This short notes corresponds to “Chapter 6: Working With Users” of the book Pro Drupal Development by John K. Vandyk and Matt Westgate. See “Drupal: Working With Databases” for my notes on Chapter 5.
The $user Object
To log in, the user must have cookies enabled; otherwise, the user is treated as an anonymous user.
The user is [...]
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This is the first in my series of short notes on the book Pro Drupal Development by John K. Vandyk and Matt Westgate. It is for those of you interested in writing your own Drupal modules. This notes corresponds to “Chapter 5: Working With Databases” of the book.
Code samples are taken from the book; some [...]
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