http://beyrent.net Drupal and PHP Web Development Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:28:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On my latest project, I was faced with a challenge: build Flash widgets that displayed dynamic data and could be embedded on any web page. Phase two of the widgets called for user interaction with the widget, as opposed to simply displaying content. It seemed that Flex would ... http://beyrent.net/2008/07/07/drupal-and-sane-flash-remoting/ My niece, Brynn Doughty, played a wonderful piano piece for a recital on June 12, 2008. http://beyrent.net/2008/06/15/introduction-to-young-talent/ Drupal is incredibly flexible, but in current versions, lacks the ability to export content easily in the form of widgets. However, the Services module gives you that flexibility in a very easy to use manner. Services allows you to expose pieces of your Drupal site, such as user, node, and ... http://beyrent.net/2008/04/03/drupal-and-cross-domain-javascript-widgets/ I have found PHP nirvana in a box. I was trying to debug the lastest dev version of the userpoints module for Drupal, and was getting nowhere. The process of debugging PHP is tedious to begin with, but the practice of putting print statements into your code in places you ... http://beyrent.net/2008/03/04/php-debugging-goodness/ I have the distinct pleasure of attending DrupalCon 2008, which is being held in Boston, MA this year. This year's attendance has blown out the attendance levels of previous DrupalCons, and it is a testament to the growing popularity of Drupal as a content management system. The sessions I attended ... http://beyrent.net/2008/03/03/drupalcon-boston-2008-day1/ I finally broke down and bought a cellphone. Nothing fancy, just a Sanyo SCP-3200 with Sprint as the carrier. There is nothing spectacular about this phone; it's got basic functionality, it's small and lightweight, and is a good solution for someone who doesn't like to talk on the ... http://beyrent.net/2008/02/14/cell-phone-aggravation/ I've been working on a Drupal module that generates a search form and presents the results below the form. However, I ran into a strange issue where the database query returned 3 records, and yet, the pager was displaying 9 pagination links. The code that builds and handles the query ... http://beyrent.net/2007/12/13/drupal-incorrect-pager-results/ I recently built my first module for Drupal, which exposes data from the Userpoints module to Views. There was some talk with the CEO of my company about releasing the module to the community as a contributed module, and some hedging about whether to release it or not. Releasing modules ... http://beyrent.net/2007/10/19/drupal-releasing-custom-modules/ I have found that the core Drupal profile module provides very limited customization possibilities. However, the Usernode and Nodeprofile modules help out immensely with this. If you want access to custom user profile fields, such as CCK fields, you simply load the profile: [php] [/php] Drupal, PHP, Usernode, Nodeprofile, user+profile, Image http://beyrent.net/2007/10/15/drupal-loading-custom-userprofile-data/ Drupal is a fairly flexible system as far as CMS applications go, and is even more flexible as a development platform. The Views module gives developers ways to dynamically build queries of data, and display that data in many different ways. Sometimes, however, you want to display views ... http://beyrent.net/2007/10/11/calling-views-in-code/