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testing
training
quality
enterprise
automation
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Wed, 2011-03-09 19:50

A Drupal Enterprise Quality Experience

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.
  • Level of quality
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best-practices
staging
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Sat, 2010-10-23 20:14

The drupal staging problem

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.

Upstream

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import
cron
batch api
drush
apache solr
indexing
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Thu, 2010-08-05 14:40

Doing BIG imports and apache solr indexing using drush, batch api and cron

By big imports I mean creating millions of nodes and indexing them fo apache solr search. We needed to import 1 million records from file, 3 nodes for each record, one in each of our 3 languages. These nodes also had 3 taxonomy vocabularies, around 30 cck fields and we also needed to join another table containing a spatial coordinates for our geo field.

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rules
event
tokens
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Tue, 2010-06-29 22:21

Drupal custom Rules how to write your own events conditions, actions and custom object (+custom tokens)

The rules module is a very powerful module that allows you to make things react in your site when certain events happen (like a comment has been made) under certain conditions (for example when the user has role x).

A lot of events, conditions and actions are allready out of the box or provided by some contrib modules who have rules integration.

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forms
webform
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Sat, 2010-06-26 15:37

Drupal webform trick submitting hidden values

How to submit some hidden values along with a drupal webform? Our example. We have job node (nid 1) and we want to go to a webform to apply for the job. So we build a link on our node pointing to the webform node (nid 2).
In the node template type quickly a url: node , nid webform, nid job node

<?php
print l('Apply for this job', 'node/2/1');
?>

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node
cck
fields
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Thu, 2010-06-17 22:17

Drupal how to load content fields using cck content api avoiding node load

How to load only the content fields of a node to avoid a full node load?

Sometimes in scripts you need information stored in cck fields but you dont want to do full node loads neither do you want to query the table directly because setting a field from single to multiple value would make the table location of that field change.

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Php
linux
performance
memcached
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
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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