Blogs for June, 2008

Development Environment for Drupal

June 26, 2008

There are virtually an unlimited amount of ways to set up a development environment, and it all depends upon your project’s individual needs and your preferred workflow. Sometimes, though, it just takes experience and exposure to other ideas to figure out what would be best. So, here is a description of my development environment.  continue ...

Topics: 
deployment
development
drupal
version control
Drupal Planet

'Today at Brown' and 'Media Relations' websites released for Brown University

June 25, 2008

The websites Today at Brown and Media Relations, developed in Drupal, have been released and live for a few months now. Media Relations was released at the beginning of this last semester, while Today at Brown was released within the past month.  continue ...

Topics: 
drupal
showcase
Drupal Planet

Development to Production: A Database Merge Script

June 23, 2008

Migrating changes from development to production is particularly tricky in Drupal due to a large amount of configuration settings being stored within the database. Attendees of Drupalcon 2008 made it clear that this is a particularly annoying problem.  continue ...

Topics: 
deployment
development
drupal
version control
Drupal Planet

How to make mass changes to nodes in Drupal

June 19, 2008

Recently, I had to make mass changes to nodes while adding a new feature to a live website.

In one case, I wanted to add a date field to a content type with hundreds of existing nodes. For the sake of simplicity, best date that could be used for this field was the created date of the node. With that information, I was able to write the following script to replace any empty date fields with the created date.  continue ...

Topics: 
code snippet
drupal
php
Drupal Planet
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