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Dominique De Cooman
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Mon, 2010-06-07 14:50

Release of a new module making the scrollto plugin available to drupal

The jquery scrollto is now available to drupal by using this project:

http://drupal.org/project/jquery_scrollto

For more on the jquery scroll to plugin http://plugins.jquery.com/project/ScrollTo

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locale
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Dominique De Cooman
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Tue, 2010-06-01 19:15

Tools to verify the correct use of the drupal localization api

This first project is used to make your interface localized easier. The second project is an API to look for translatable strings and translatability errors.
http://drupal.org/project/l10n_client
http://drupal.org/project/potx

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jquery
modules
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Dominique De Cooman
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Sat, 2010-05-29 17:30

Release of two new modules making the jquery ui multiselect available to drupal

The jquery multiselect widget is now available to drupal by using these two projects:

http://drupal.org/project/jquery_multiselect
http://drupal.org/project/fancy_multiselect

For more on the jquery ui multiselect http://quasipartikel.at/multiselect/

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date&time
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Dominique De Cooman
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Sat, 2010-05-29 17:24

Format dates the drupal way use core function and date api (with timezones and adjustable formats)

The main function in drupal to format a date is the format_date function which will take the formatting and timezone conversion you configured at http://yoursite/admin/settings/date-time and http://yoursite/admin/settings/date-time/formats

<?php
//format_date($timestamp, $type = 'medium', $format = '', $timezone = NULL, $langcode = NULL)
//An example convert the unix timestamp for now ?>

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jquery
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Dominique De Cooman
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Wed, 2010-05-12 22:32

Drupal Jquery : How to add a setting from php to your jquery script

In this post adding a setting from php to your jquery script will be explained through an example: Adding an api key as a variable to our query script.

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Dominique De Cooman
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Thu, 2010-04-15 22:50

How to remove the drupal default "/node" page (aka the default front page view)

As we all know drupal has a default front page which shows a view of teaser nodes promoted to front.
Most sites will replace this page with something else.
But we might forget that we can still go to this page. You might want to remove it.
A simple trick to do this is to make it go to the page not found.

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Php
linux
performance
memcached
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
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Sun, 2010-03-28 15:34

Install memcache for drupal on centos

In terminal:

First install libevent:

cd /usr/local/src/
wget <a href="http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.3e.tar.gz
tar">http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.3e.tar.gz
tar</a> zxpfv libevent*
cd libevent*
./configure
make install

Download and install memcached:

cd /usr/local/src/
wget <a href="http://www.danga.com/memcached/dist/memcached-1.2.4.tar.gz
tar">http://www.danga.com/memcached/dist/memcached-1.2.4.tar.gz
tar</a> zxpfv memcached*
cd memcached*
./configure
make install

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Dominique De Cooman
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Sat, 2010-03-20 21:50

Le grand bateau

Legrandbateau is a brand new French/Flemish band playing Jazz, Bossa, Tangopop, Rumbarock.
You should definitely check them out!

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Dominique De Cooman
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Mon, 2010-02-08 21:50

Drupal: make working with taxonomy easier (taxonomy helpers to assign, manage, import/export, access, ...)

When working with taxonomy, especialy large vocabularies with deep hierarchies the standard taxonomy module isnt enough to manage your vocabularies. To maintain the vocabulary in drupals backend the most obvious choice is http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_manager
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linux
cron
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Wed, 2010-01-27 22:00

How to add a cron job for drupal on linux server

In the command line type

crontab -e

Press your insert key.
Insert a line, run every five minutes for example (more on syntax http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?crontab+5)
5 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx -source <a href="http://yoursite.com/cron.php
">http://yoursite.com/cron.php [/geshifilter-codes]

And now exit: press escape and type ":exit"
By exiting you are saving and you wont be prompted.

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