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Submitted by oliver on Thu, 10/11/2011 - 14:30
This is such a basic PHP function but easy to forget and hard to find for some reason. Anyway, here are a selection of the best ways to find what variables are available in a template file.
First off, the function you need is:
get_defined_vars();
The quickest way to use it is to put the following in your template file:
print_r(get_defined_vars());
Next, install the devel module. Once installed you will now have a 'Devel' tab available when viewing nodes (if you have the correct permission set up).
Submitted by oliver on Tue, 08/11/2011 - 16:00
I've been trying to find a standardised way of creating popup forms that appear in a lightbox. Everything just seemed too inelegant. Then it hit me... Why not use the Drupal menu system itself to form the basis of this functionality?
First of all, this is for Drupal 6 but the technique is probably almost identical for Drupal 7.
Whenever I build something, I always build an HTML fallback. I usually find it makes you think in the right way and greatly simplifies coding. So first of all you build a normal menu item where the page callback is 'drupal_get_form'.
Submitted by oliver on Thu, 20/10/2011 - 10:34
Sometimes unit testing is a lot of work, especially if you have a system that has had many months of development without it.
One very valuable test is to check there are no errors in the Drupal log after you've committed new code.
First I clear the Drupal error log when Jenkins runs an update from version control using Drush:
cd /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/mysite
drush --uri=http://test.mysite.com watchdog delete all
Submitted by oliver on Wed, 21/09/2011 - 12:04
Prometheus is an amazing new software that is coming out that will allow you to find existing sources of traffic and also leads. This is a great tool that will be amazing for affiliate online or internet marketers. You could even just create a business to match leads classified as buyers to leads classified as sellers.
When it's available I will post a link to it here.
Here's a bit more about it:
http://www.prometheusleadgenerationsoftware.com
and here's a great webinar:
http://tiny.cc/hc4h0
Submitted by oliver on Mon, 19/09/2011 - 17:05
Memcache had always seemed like some magic black box to me until the last time I set it up and really took the time to understand what it does.
I'd say there are two main benefits to memcache:
Submitted by oliver on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 16:21
I recently went to a trading course and learned some great stuff. When you don't know anything about trading it can seem like a mammoth task to actually do an online trade let alone find the right tools to use and choose the right shares to trade. So I created a book to teach people the fundamentals of how to do online trading.
Submitted by oliver on Thu, 21/07/2011 - 15:47
Please note: This article is old and refers to Selenium Server which has been deprecated by Selenium Webdriver so the following post is now pretty useless!
Submitted by oliver on Fri, 20/05/2011 - 10:08
So Natty has been out for a couple of weeks now. Some of my computers are up to date, I'm honestly not sure which ones are, I guess that's a good thing because it means nothing can be seriously broken!
I still feel like I want to be using Ubuntu rather than Kubuntu because of performance but rather than do a direct comparison I thought I would just list stuff day to day that I think I might miss if I moved to Ubuntu. I'm sure there's stuff I would prefer in Ubuntu but I don't know because I don't use it yet!
Submitted by oliver on Tue, 10/05/2011 - 16:22
I've got a Kindle 3 with a 6in display which I love. It's just great and very comfortable to read. But I've found quite a lot of PDFs that I want to read. They're all A4. The Kindle screen is good enough that you can generally read an A4 page scaled to 6 inches, but then you get the occasional smaller text and diagrams which make it not quite practical.
Submitted by oliver on Tue, 10/05/2011 - 15:25