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Contextual Complexity Vexes a Texan; or Non-contextual Views Filters, Contextually 20 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Ok fine, I'm not a Texan. But if you, like me, have ever needed a Drupal View's contextual filters to be combined with an "or" operator, you have probably been vexed. Contextual Filters are always co...
Speed up PHP on NFS with turbo_realpath on CentOS 9 May 2013 | 08:54 pm
If you run a website based on PHP, and have your source files on a network file system like NFS, OCFS2, or GlusterFS, and combine it with PHP's open_basedir protection, you'll quickly notice that the ...
Smuggling functions through json_encode 18 Mar 2013 | 10:30 pm
Callbacks! Every fancy jQuery plugin has them and they are almost always specified along with all the other parameters when the plugin is initialized. While a plugin author would reasonably expect y...
Short-circuit Evaluation in JavaScript (or, the Ternary Operator, in Binary) 7 Jan 2013 | 11:29 pm
Here's a peculiar-looking JavaScript construction that I've repeatedly come across in the wild: I first came across this syntax in Drupal. For example, here's the the first line of ajax.js: The firs...
Object Oriented PHP and the Migrate Module: Code Organization for Most Extreme Happiness 1 Jan 2013 | 09:30 pm
There are 2 kinds of people in this world: people who use the Migrate module to migrate content into a new Drupal site, and wrong people. This post assumes a basic familiarity with the module. The M...
Usable MAMP on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion 19 Dec 2012 | 09:18 pm
MAMP on OS X is a great way to quickly get started on Apache/MySQL/PHP development locally on a Mac. Unfortunately, I've found that many of the defaults can get in the way of developing some content m...
Three ways to get Drush on OS X 30 Aug 2012 | 12:18 am
As I've said before, we love drush. It's hard to imagine doing Drupal work without it. If OS X is your workstation, it's pretty simple to install with pear, as described on the project page. Let's rev...
Three ways to get Drush on OS X 30 Aug 2012 | 12:18 am
As I've said before, we love drush. It's hard to imagine doing Drupal work without it. If OS X is your workstation, it's pretty simple to install with pear, as described on the project page. Let's rev...
Creating Custom Formatters with Display Suite 26 Apr 2012 | 10:33 am
Here at EchoDitto, we've been making heavy use of the Display Suite module. It obliterates a lot of the more tedious theming issues we typically run into when building out a Drupal site, and for the m...
Creating Custom Formatters with Display Suite 26 Apr 2012 | 03:33 am
Here at EchoDitto, we've been making heavy use of the Display Suite module. It obliterates a lot of the more tedious theming issues we typically run into when building out a Drupal site, and for the m...
