drupal

The team working away into the wee small hours.

So last weekend a group of folk from all over the north (Manchester, Stoke, Bradford, Leeds, York and beyond) converged on Langdale in the Lake District to help rebuild the Langdale/Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team website.

Wooo, catchy blog post title eh?

It's good to keep PHP code out of your Drupal database right?

The flexibility afforded by adding PHP code to things like your "Allowed values list" for a CCK field is absolutely fantastic on one hand but niggles me on the other because the code ends up in the database and won't be version controlled.

Drupal Maintenance Drupal6 to Drupal7 Upgrade Slides

Concurrent Versions System or CVS for short has been and is currently the version control system of choice for both Drupal core and also for contributed Drupal modules. For discussion on the future of version control for the Drupal project see http://drupal.org/node/289117 - Why is Drupal still using CVS and how can I help change that?

This is one of those easy fixes for something that can take time to figure out if you don't know where to look, I hope it's useful to someone!

The Location module allows real-world geographic locations to be associated with Drupal nodes, including people, places, and other content.

Setting up and testing a Drupal 6 + Ubercart site with a payment service provider can result in a lot of test orders on the system so here's a quick procedure for clearing them down before handing the site over to the client.

Use at your own risk and ensure you have a back up of your database before you start!

Back up your database.
No really, back up your database, if you make a mistake here your data is gone bye-bye!

Okay, now we can begin.

I started using SimpleTest today so I thought I'd document the process as I went along for personal reference as much as anything else.

Why use SimpleTest?

For me the reasons were pretty straightforward:

Dries talks about Drupal past, present and future at DrupalCamp Köln last weekend, it's a great presentation and I even get 5 seconds of fame, see if you can spot me!