drupal

Video #5 in this Intro to Drupal series, I cover how you can create content types in Drupal 7 now that the field system is in place.

In this screencast, I give a basic demonstration of how to use Drush with the Acquia Stack.

In this video, I demonstrate how to download and install modules through the Drupal 7 user interface.

After you install your site, you can change the site name and logo, change the visual look with a theme, and add content.

In this screencast, I demonstrate how to use the Acquia Stack installer to install MySQL and Apache with PHP so that you can have a Drupal 7 web site on your personal computer.

Since Stéphane Corlosquet got all the SemWeb geeks at DERI so excited about Drupal and the potential to RDF-ize their sites, I figured I'd show them how to use it in a bi-weekly series of Drupal How-tos... and I figured I might as well share them with the rest of the community as well :)

While working on code for Drupal 7, I've been creating and dropping databases all over the place. And each time I drop a database, I have to go to my browser and fill out all the site information again.

So this got me thinking... does it really need to be this way? (Spoiler: it doesn't)

A few weeks ago I found Byte Craft kamal's awesome post about twill, a really simple language that lets you fill out HTML forms from the command line, and how it can be used to install your Drupal site without using your browser at all!

In this post, I will expand that solution to show you how you can create scripts to download and install Drupal and then show you a script you can use to automate the recreation of your site when you drop the database.

So I surreptitiously posted the second part of my talk on The Semantic Web and Drupal, fully intending to spread the word but also fully procrastinating... so thank you to @derigalway, @akioz, @crizzirc, @johnbreslin, @cygri and others for spreading the word for me.

If you haven't seen it yet, here it is:

I delivered this talk at DrupalCamp Vienna, I only have the first part up but the second part (all about the Semantic Web technologies that are now in Drupal) is coming soon!

This post is alternately titled "Oh Menu Trails, where have you been all my weekend?"

I recently posted a list of some modules that are great for making conventional, menu hierarchy based sites in Drupal.

As I was posting that list, however, I was facing a menu based crisis. For a small part of the site, I needed my menu to have onstates set and breadcrumbs created based on the current node's taxonomy term. Sounds easy, right? When I started the project, I didn't even think to check whether there was a module to do that... because of course there would be! right?