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Page manager redirect

Written by Steven Jones on Thu, 01/07/2010 - 20:36

Quite often you need to redirect a particular path on a Drupal site, there are a number of ways to do this, but most involve writing PHP code. Also, it's not hugely easy to do things like redirect node/%node but only when %node is a 'image' node, posted on a Tuesday. The awesome Page manager module, and a little utility module we wrote changes that.

Page manager redirect Drupal module exposes a 'task handler' to Page manager. This means that we can do a 'task' when page manager matches a path, and other conditions pass; The task that Page manager redirect exposes is to redirect to another page.

This allows us to easily set up things like redirecting a user's profile node to the user whose profile it is, or redirect individual image nodes in a gallery to the gallery they belong to.

Views content cache

Written by Steven Jones on Sat, 12/06/2010 - 20:17

Views is awesome. You get a ton of flexibility and power, but that comes at a price: Some of the queries that views produces are less than optimal, and the rendering of results can take a long time. Views 2.6 introduced a nice solution to some of the issues, with the introduction of caching plugins.

Views itself comes with a single cache plugin (okay, okay two if you're really counting) that is time-based. So you can say: "I don't care if I show content that's 6 hours old" and it'll handle it fine. I've been thinking for a while that there should really be a better way, if you've got a view listing blog posts, you only really need to flush the cache on that view when a new blog post is added, or and existing one is updated or deleted. After a client really needed this, I looked into it and found some code lying around in the views issue queue written by huesforalice. I cleaned it up some and created a module, presenting:

Views content cache.

Drupal 6 is released - hoooooray!!

Thu, 14/02/2008 - 00:27

Well, it's finally happened - the brand spanking new Drupal 6 has been released into the wild. We have been playing a lot with Drupal 6 and getting ourselves quite excited (finally drupal_execute has decent return values, and the menu system feels a bit less 'brutal'). However, while we would love to start building client sites on it there is one major omission - the views module.

Suffice to say there have been many discussions about the core-worthyness of the views module, so I am not about to start another one here! Instead I'll just say a HUGE thank you to everyone involved with what we think will be a massively important release for the Drupal

PS - Can it really be a year already since Drupal 5 was released! It seems like only yesterday we were stumbling over those fancy new admin/build and admin/content menu entries LOL

Drupal association

Fri, 28/12/2007 - 23:23

The Drupal association have just rolled out a new logo and are having a bit of a membership drive ... so if you haven't joined yet do now!  http://drupal.org/node/204175

Special offer - make-my-logo-bigger cream, free with every website we develop

Sun, 16/12/2007 - 09:51

We don't often post random stuff on here, but this has been amusing us in the office, we thought you might like it too ...

Another drupal release (5.5) - deja vu!

Fri, 07/12/2007 - 05:37

File this one under "slightly annoying but can't be helped", after a fun day of upgrading sites to 5.4 we find that 5.5 has been released!  Fixing a fairy hefty bug in the taxonomy term RSS feeds introduced by 5.4 you can't really not upgrade ... at least we know what we will be doing today :)

New drupal releases

Wed, 05/12/2007 - 22:56

Its been a day for Drupal releases.  The most important for our clients is the release of Drupal 5.4, which fixes a possible SQL injection vulnerability (its one of those obscure ones which shouldn't affect too many people hopefully).

Barrow Gurney featured in slashdot article

Wed, 05/12/2007 - 08:21

Well, who would have thought it - the tiny village of Barrow Gurney is busy making tech news!  http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/04/2148215

Computerminds work with CompanyX

Wed, 05/12/2007 - 08:09

We are excited to get the chance to work with the guys down at companyX on a number of exciting Drupal projects.   We can't go into too many details yet, but watch this space ...

Drupal 5.3 released

Thu, 18/10/2007 - 07:28

Drupal 5.3 was released early this morning, fixing a number of security issues and a number of other small bugs (all the fun feature stuff is only being added to Drupal 6!).