Drupal

Debugging mail in Drupal

Posted: Fri, 26/02/2010 - 11:24

Filed under: Drupal, devel

There's a module for that...
devel has a setting at admin/settings/devel to switch Drupal mail to log emails instead of sending them out.
Set "SMTP library" to "Log only".
Puts useful debug data into $messages, too.

Using Views to provide better userreference reverse links

Posted: Thu, 04/02/2010 - 00:03

Filed under: Drupal, views

Recently, I built a site for a recruitment agency. Each advertised vacancy has a userreference field (userreference is bundled with the CCK module) to associate the vacancy with the relevant recruitment consultant.

Drush and localhost

Posted: Sat, 14/11/2009 - 14:07

Filed under: Drupal, drush

I find I'm depending on Drush more and more for my Drupal development.
While my iMac is happy with Drush, as is our main dev server, I couldn't get it to work reliably on my MacBook until I found this lovely node: http://drupal.org/node/222611

Sign up for DrupalCamp UK

Posted: Wed, 20/05/2009 - 17:04

Filed under: Drupal

The UK's first DrupalCamp will take place at the BBC in Manchester, June 13th-14th.
The plan is for a wide range of talks and workshops for everyone from Drupal newbies to Drupal ninjas. Sign up for free at http://drupalcampuk.eventbrite.com/

Webmonkey interviews Dries Buytaert

Posted: Sat, 21/06/2008 - 12:43

Filed under: Drupal

Brief but interesting interview with Dries Buytaert, about Drupal's history, plans for its future and Acquia's role.

Quick reminder: Drupal NWUK User Group

Posted: Tue, 19/02/2008 - 07:13

Filed under: Drupal

Quick reminder: Drupal NWUK user group is meeting on Wednesday at the MDDA. Whether you know Drupal inside-out or would just like to know what it's all about, come along (if you're going to Leeds GeekUp you'll just have to be in two places at once: we'll try to avoid clashes in future).

Drupal 6 Released

Posted: Wed, 13/02/2008 - 17:47

Filed under: Drupal

It's on the shelves! http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0
Chris and I will run through the new features at the Drupal user group next week.

Drupal Training Course Details

Posted: Mon, 11/02/2008 - 15:35

Filed under: Drupal

Chris and I have sorted the time and place for our Drupal training course in Manchester: Wednesday 9th April at the MDDA.

Pop to the menusandblocks website for more info, or give one of us a call if you've got any questions!

Path checking in Drupal 6

Posted: Fri, 08/02/2008 - 07:33

Filed under: Drupal

The menu system in Drupal 6 has been completely rewritten, but most of the changes are under the hood.

Drupal 6 RC3 released

Posted: Thu, 31/01/2008 - 08:53

Filed under: Drupal

Download it. Find bugs. Let them know.
As the release notes point out, Views 2 is still a couple of weeks off at least, but that doesn't mean we can't have fun trying out all the other goodies in 6.

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