Category: Drupal

My next entry in this series will be about my lessons learned from Using Drupal’s chapter 7, which is about building a photo gallery. Meanwhile my dilemma of whether to focus on Drupal 6 or 7 came to the forefront, because at the same time I just watched a video that shows how much better Drupal 7’s image handling is. The video...

The authors of Using Drupal explained how Workflows can be managed in Drupal. Just like with the wiki, I don’t see any immediate practical use of this feature, as none of the projects I am workig on (or thinking about doing) requiers it. But it is certainly a legitimate need for many websites that are managed by team to have a...

Chapter 5 of Using Drupal was about creating a Wiki with Drupal. I don’t foresee right now that I would do that for any of my own sites, but you never know what a client might ask, so it’s good to know about it. The book’s authors’ assessment is that there was not a single complete wiki package at the time of writing,...

Chapter 4 of Using Drupal covered the process of building a product review site that automatically pulled in content from Amazon via its API. Here is what I learned from the process: Page 151 mentions the URL where contrib modules that add rating and voting capabilities are listed. The URL from the book is no longer working, but I figured out the...

The third chapter of “Using Drupal” covered the CCK and Views modules, which I played with quite a bit in the last two weeks, so there weren’t any major learning points here for me. Here are the minor ones though: Both CCK and Taxonomy can create select lists. The differences (page 96): – Taxonomies are for categories. Nevver make a CCK...

I borrowed two Drupal books from the library. “Using Drupal” was published in 2009, so it’s not that out of date. O’Reilly, the publisher, issues consistently great books, so I wasn’t hesitant to get this one. Not to mention that this was the latest non Drupal 7 book the local public library had. (The other book I got is for...