Angie Byron, Addi Berry, Nate Haug, and Jeff Robbins report back from DrupalCon Copenhagen.

Release Date:

September 6, 2010 - 11:22am

Album:

Lullabot Podcast

Length:

62:48 minutes (24.37 MB)

Format:

mono 44kHz 54Kbps (vbr)

In this video we'll take on the specific task of getting everything in place to run the Drupal installation script, all from the command line. We'll get a copy of the Drupal code (using three different methods: FTP, CVS and Drush), copy our settings.php file, and then create a new database and database user.

Drupal 7 has had a major (read huge, life-altering) change to its file API. Hopefully it's all good, but you definitely need to understand it if you're porting or developing any D7 modules.
There are two key changes, which I'll deal with one at at time:read more

For one of our clients, we are running a Drupal site with about a millions of nodes. Before launch, those nodes are imported from another database and then indexed into Apache SOLR. The total time to index all of these nodes in an empty SOLR instance is measured in days rather than hours or minutes.
A bit too long to do this import regularly. So me and my (XDebug) profiler delved into the Apache SOLR module code to look where we could scrape of a few hours/days of the execution time.

A while ago I wrote about how to provide exportable configuration presets in Drupal modules. While I was taking advantage of CTools' exportables API rather than building this functionality from scratch, we still ended up with quite a lot of code for what was supposed to be a standardized feature. Since then, however, CTools' exportables API has evolved and now also provides a UI out of the box.

I was recently trying to figure out exactly how long my users' sessions were lasting on an existing Drupal site that I had built. Generally it seemed like users were remaining logged in for an extremely lengthy period of time. I did some research and finally discovered that this setting is actually configured in the default settings.php file that ships with Drupal. There's a line in the settings file that initially reads:
ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime',  2000000);

How to create presentations that entertain & inform.

I had the opportunity to present to a local organization in Salt Lake City on the techniques Lullabot uses for making kick ass presentations and how we streamline our presentations so they're reusable amongst our teaching staff. Watch the video below and download the slides.

You have to agree that Drupal admin screens can be pretty gnarly to interact with. If you want a better looking Modules listing page and if you want a tidier node add and node edit form... Then read on and watch the video at the end.OK. I Pride myself on being HIPP and knowing about the newest modules and the coolest modules. I can not explain how I missed the MODULE FILTER module.read more

Fri, Sep 3, 2010 by Brandon Tate

Building a website I recently ran into an issue where I had HTML search facets interacting with Drupal views. The user would click on the facet and it would filter the view depending on the argument. I ended up implementing hook_views_query_alter. To make sure the values I wanted to filter on were in the view, I added the search facets into the view as fields. This automatically joins the necessary tables so that you don’t have to.

John Albin Wilkins (aka JohnAlbin) talks about some of the new extensions to the theming system that are new in Drupal 7 including render elements, hook_page_alter(), show, hide, theme_get_suggestions(),<