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It is perfectly possibly to work with Drupal using the free tools that come with Windows, nothing more than notepad and Internet Explorer - but just because its possible doesn't mean its a good idea! We work with Drupal all day everyday - and rely on a small arsenal of applications to stop us going insane! 1. Firefox - (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ ) Everybody has heard of firefox right? The browser that has MS running scared (and...
I'll keep this one nice and short - and hopefully save a couple of people participating in a bit of self inflicted baldness! Installing the TinyMCE module (a nice WYSIWYG editor) in Drupal 5 should be a breeze. Basically you copy the module into your modules directory. Then hit the TinyMCE site and download the latest version of the TinyMCE javascript/images - which you put into the tinymce directory in your modules directory. You then...
We inherited another site today, with an interesting problem (actually it has many problems but that's another story). When the Drupal cache is enabled totally blank pages are often displayed. A quick google search fails to bring back much info, so it looks like were going to actually have to work for dinner today :) Now a blank page is usually a sure sign of a PHP error, the sort of thing that on a...
We inherited a site that was running a very old (probably un patched) version of Drupal 4.6. The site was getting a massive number of hits to the URL /emailpage - at least 20 a minute, even when there was no other traffic on the site. This looked suspiciously like a mail header injection problem. Even though the server was not currently sending out any spam we figured that at some point in the past...
We have had a few situations now where we have needed to send out a newsletter to all our users, only to find that non of them have bothered to sign up to it! So like true marketeers (were not really!) we wanted a way to have our users signed up to the newsletter automatically - whilst still giving them the option of un-subscribing. The module is pretty simple, and currently only works on Drupal...
The problem Drupal offers some powerful caching features, but they are by no means perfect as we discovered when building the site http://www.booktribes.com. Booktribes uses some simple custom blocks to display some semi-dynamic content, content such as the "rotating" lists of celebrity favourite books. Turning on Drupal page caching offers a significant performance boost to the site, but it means that our dynamic front page content suddenly becomes static - which is bad news. So...