If you want to render only one field of your entities you can in drupal 7. Here in the example we have an entity called model which contains an image field.
To render the field you have to specify to the field_attach_view function which entity type, the entity and the view mode you want to use. The function returns a renderable array.
If you want to save only a specific field on your entity instead of saving the whole entity you can. In a submodule of the fields module you ll find a module called field_sql_storage module. In that module all functions available for the sql storage backend can be used. One of them is field_sql_storage_field_storage_write, which you give your entity, type, operator (update, insert) and which fields to save.
This post will explain how to automate installing drupal on a development environment using a stack installer script.
We used the script to speed up a drupal training. With the script and the install profile we could set up a development workstation very fast. Leaving us more time to look at the important stuff.
This post will summarize the experience of introducing drupal into an enterprise. How we achieved a level of quality in drupal development needed for an enterprise application.
It will cover:
Setup : The drupal 6 site and the integration with the other apps in the enterprise.
Running cron from cli is useful when your behind external authentication and crontab is not available over http. Because normaly you would put something like:
Sometimes there is a need to make drupal redirect using drupal_goto. We had to do it in an SSO scenario. We had to make drupal goto a configurable admin page (node page) when no roles where assigned to you by the external authentication (shibboleth). So we would put a check in hook_init() to redirect drupal when our criteria where met.
I've ran into this one quit a few times. We have live production environment, a staging environment, an integration environment and a local development environment. This classic software development chain goes upstream from production to dev and downstream from dev to production.
