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Creating URL Redirects with Migrate Module 9 Jan 2013 | 01:25 am
New versions of websites often have new content organizations with new URL patterns. When old content is assigned a new URL it's almost always desirable to redirect traffic from the content's old URL ...
Programatically Create 301 Redirects 29 Dec 2012 | 04:05 am
The Drupal 7 Redirect module gives a site the ability to redirect from one URL to another using a proper HTTP redirect status (e.g., 301 - Permanently moved). In addition to the user interface there i...
Simple Drupal Remote Backup 18 Mar 2012 | 03:47 pm
Like many web types I have a number of small websites I look after, and I've never been happy with my backup solution. Until today. My requirements are simple, create a backup of the database and fil...
Drupal 7 Upgrades with Scripts and Drush 12 Jul 2011 | 04:56 pm
A Drupal upgrade between major versions rarely means doing the upgrade procedure once. A new configuration, changing content, or needing to test different module versions typically means redoing the u...
Drupal File Upgrade Bash Script 4 Jul 2011 | 03:59 pm
Replacing files during a Drupal upgrade can be tedious, especially for those of us who have to worry about SVN files in every directory. The following script automates this part of the Drupal upgrade,...
Creating and Updating Nodes Programmatically in Drupal 7 1 Sep 2010 | 02:52 pm
The steps for programmatically creating a node are: Create a PHP object representing the node data Save the object using the node_save() function While the mechanics are simple, there is an importa...
Drupal 7 Blocks: What's Changed Under the Covers 18 Aug 2010 | 08:14 am
Blocks in Drupal 6 (and 5) always felt a little less loved than other portions of Drupal. While the node and theming APIs offered straightforward and often elegant methods to modify behaviour without ...
The Examples for Developers Module 31 Jul 2010 | 10:21 am
An example, like a picture, is worth 1000 words. Until recently Drupal programming examples existed but were spread among documentation pages, blog posts, and the Drupal CVS repository; some searching...
Drupal Command Line Scripts with Drush 24 Jul 2010 | 03:16 am
Drupal's scripting abilities just keep getting better and better. Since publishing my Drupal Command Line Script Template last year I've moved exclusively to the Drush php-script (scr) command. The sc...
Riese: From Bytes to Broadcast 9 Jul 2010 | 09:05 am
In May I attended Melting Silos Case Study – Riese: From Bytes to Broadcast, a talk in the What’s Going On Salon series. From the talk description: Join Riese series creators Kaleena Kiff and Ryan Co...
