This past weekend, a team of core Drupal developers, including Peter Wolanin (pwolanin), Andrew Morton (drewish), Jon Stacey (jmstacey), Justin Randell (justinrandell), Jody Hamilton (Jody Lynn), Alex UA (Alex UA), and myself, met at the Zivtech headquarters in Philly to hammer out some hot media and file functionality. After much arm-wrestling, teeth-gnashing, and nail-biting, plus …
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10 Tips for Theming Drupal 6 Forms
In the last month, I’ve been working on a project that requires a very custom look and feel for login/register/adding content forms, and worked what I’ve learned into a presentation. Now I’ve got a little running list of tips for whipping Drupal forms into shape. Check out the Stealther plugin. If you are theming a …
Read more »Faking imagecache for external images in Drupal
Imagecache is just one of those modules that we use on a consistent basis. There are usually many places within a complex site where the ability to crop and scale an image to a certain size comes into play. While this works great for images that you are storing on your own server, you run …
Read more »Using multiple node access modules just got a lot easier, maybe
Two new hooks were recently committed to HEAD that will give Drupal 7 unprecedented flexibility when it comes to managing multiple node access modules on one site. Up until now, enabling multiple node access modules usually leads to unwanted behavior, most often exhibited by access being granted unexpectedly. This is partially because Drupal ORs access …
Read more »New Yorkers for Marriage Equality: How We Fight the Good Fight at Home and at Work
I came to work for Advomatic because we “fight the good fight,” giving progressive organizations the tools and strategies they need to succeed online. Almost everyone on the Advoteam contributes back to the community outside of work too, whether it be closing the technology gap in Minneapolis or writing a book on Drupal. What is …
Read more »Multiple nodes from single node submission in Drupal
At Advomatic we recently had a use case to create multiple nodes from a single node submission. This is something that Drupal can handle relatively easily but, it is just not that intuitive so here is a tutorial on how I accomplished this. This tutorial will cover how to create two nodes, an image node …
Read more »Table-free Gallery Grid View in Drupal
In my role here at Advomatic, doing Drupal Development, for the last two projects I’ve worked on, I’ve gotten requests for a surprisingly tedious layout that looks a little like this: It’s a grid of images with captions of varying length. Now, this would be a cinch with tables, I prefer to handle these with …
Read more »Drupal Multimedia – Learning New Tricks
Aaron Winborn, one of our awesome developers here at Advomatic, wrote a book on Drupal Multimedia, titled shockingly, “Drupal Multimedia“. He’s been getting lots of feedback and reviews, the latest coming from Ken Rickard. Ken astutely opines: Let me start the formal review by praising Winborn’s depth of knowledge and commitment to Drupal and the …
Read more »Drupal Maintainability II – Separation of Church and State
This week’s blog post on Drupal maintainability is about keeping things separated (You can take a look at the other posts in the series). Drupal is really powerful. One of the core assumptions is that every site will be different and so everything can be manipulated and extended to your heart’s content. And for any …
Read more »Framework to Extend hook_block in Drupal
As you have probably already seen at Drupal.org, Advomatic recently launched the new site for the New York State Senate. This front page announcement has received some interest from other developers, and as promised, I’m detailing the custom block framework that we use there and on other sites. First the background information. I assume that …
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