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Create Virtual Hosts on Mac OS X Using VirtualHostX
2nd July 2010
This isn't a Drupal related topic per se, but it is a walk-through of one of the applications that I use whilst doing Drupal development work. I assume, like most Mac OS X users, I use MAMP to run Apache, MySQL and PHP locally whilst developing. I also use virtual …
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Change the Content Type of Multiple Nodes Using SQL
1st July 2010
In this post, I will be changing values within my Drupal 6 site's database to quickly change the content type of multiple nodes. I will be using a test development site with the core Blog module installed, and converting Blog posts to a custom content type called 'News article'. Before changing …
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Create a Flickr Photo Gallery Using Feeds, CCK and Views
28th June 2010
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a photo gallery which uses photos imported from Flickr. The modules that I'll use to create the Gallery are: CCK Feeds Feeds Image Grabber FileField ImageAPI ImageCache ImageField Views The first thing that I did was to create a content type to store my imported images. I named it 'Photo', removed …
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10 Useful Drupal 6 Modules
25th June 2010
Aside from the obvious candidates such as Views, CCK etc, here are a list of 10 contributed modules that I currently use on each Drupal project. So, in no particular order: Admin: The admin module provides UI improvements to the standard Drupal admin interface. I've just upgraded to the new 6.x-2.0-beta4 version, …
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Create a Block of Social Media Icons using CCK, Views and Nodequeue
23rd June 2010
I recently decided that I wanted to have a block displayed in a sidebar on my site containing icons and links to my social media profiles - Twitter, Facebook etc. I tried the Follow module, but it lacked the option to add extra networks such my Drupal.org account, and my …
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Improve JPG Quality in Imagecache and ImageAPI
2nd June 2010
Whilst uploading images for my Projects and Testimonials sections, I noticed that the Imagecache-scaled images weren't as high a quality the originals on my Mac. I did some searching online and found out that, by default, Drupal resamples uploaded jpgs to 75% of their original quality. To increase the quality of …
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Quickly Import Multiples Images Using the Imagefield_Import Module
29th May 2010
Thanks to Bob at Mustardseed Media for tweeting about this module. It's undoubtedly saved me hours of work today alone! I've recently started a personal project converting a website to Drupal. It's currently a static HTML/CSS site which also uses the Coppermine Photo Gallery. As part of building the new website, …
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Create a Slideshow of Multiple Images Using Fancy Slide
25th May 2010
Whilst updating my About page, I thought about creating a slideshow of several images instead of just the one static image. When I looking on Drupal.org, the only slideshow modules were to create slideshows of images that were attached to different nodes - not multiple images attached to one node. …
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Quickly Create Zen Subthemes Using Zenophile
10th May 2010
If you use the Zen theme, then you should also be using the Zenophile module! The Zenophile module allows you to very quickly create Zen subthemes from within your web browser, as well as editing options such as the site directory where it should be placed, the layout type (fixed or …
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Conditional Email Addresses in a Webform
6th May 2010
I created a new Webform to serve as a simple Contact form, but left the main configuration until after I created the form components. I added 'Name', 'Email', 'Subject' and 'Message' fields, as well as a 'Category' select list. Below 'Options', I entered each of my desired options in the …
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