build2be/com/e - development

My development environment so far

clemens — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:40:43 +0000

Intro

These are my notes when doing my first (drupal) presentation @ FrOSCon 2008 Drupal Room This method uses the concepts

All drupal sites in directory www
All site-config in a separate directory
All site-data in a separate directory

This way an upgrade to another drupal version runs smoothly. Hmmm this was about developer environment.

Add new local domain

Why do I need this? To make sites like http://nf.test http://nf.dev or http://froscon.demo

sudo su -
echo 127.0.0.254  froscon.demo >> /etc/hosts
exit

add apache site

We need a new website with a configured drupal install somewhere. Key words are VirtualRoot and DocumentRoot. This is my template TEMPLATE

sudo su -
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
cp TEMPLATE.tmp froscon.demo
vi froscon.demo
# :%s/HOSTNAME/froscon.demo/g
# DON'T FORGET TO CHANGE DocumentRoot and log file locations
# :wq
exit

Let apache know of the new site

a2ensite froscon.demo
/etc/init.d/apache2 reload
exit

Installing drupal

cd /home/clemens/www

Get and unpack your drupal version

cd /home/clemens/usr/lib/drupal/core
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.4.tar.gz
tar xvf drupal-6.4.tar.gz

create site

This is my new-site.php script.

cd /home/clemens/www
vi new-site.php
# change site name
# change drupal version

php new-site.php | bash

install site

cd ~/www/sites-data/froscon.demo/
cp default.settings.php settings.php 
chmod 777 settings.php

Create the database

This is my new-db.php script.

vi new-db.php
# edit hostname
# :wq
php new-db.php | mysql -u root

Fire up drupal

http://froscon.demo Do as drupal tells you

chmod 777 settings.php

and then reset it again

chmod 755 settings.php

install drush

cd /home/clemens/www/site-config/froscon.demo/modules
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drush-6.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drush_mm-6.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz
tar xzf drush_*

http://froscon.demo/admin/build/modules

Running wild on the command line

Install my drush script runner to follow along with the commands.

cd ~/www
./drush froscon.demo help

./drush froscon.demo pm install simpletest cck node_factory

./drush froscon.demo mm dot | neato -o ~/froscon/2008/frosdem.png -T png

./drush froscon.demo -s -v mm enable drush_simpletest

./drush froscon.demo mm enable drush_simpletest nodereference

Running simpletest

http://froscon.demo/admin/build/simpletest

vi ~/www/sites-config/froscon.demo/settings.php

http://froscon.demo/admin/build/simpletest

uninstall modules

./drush froscon.demo -v -s mm uninstall content

./drush froscon.demo mm uninstall content
rm -r sites-config/froscon.demo/modules/cck/

./drush froscon.demo mm dot | neato -o ~/froscon/2008/frosdem.png -T png

eclipse

- a test from node_factory - mylyn task tracking

Attachment	Size
TEMPLATE.txt	434 bytes
new-site.php_.txt	2.21 KB
new-db.php_.txt	451 bytes
drush.txt	581 bytes

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First (baby) steps with Flash / ActionScript

clemens — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:29:46 +0000

I want to build some flash games. Just for fun? Yes and no.

Yes because it's fun to learn ActionScript. No because I hope to make money some day.

Some pointers for my system setting which is linux
- ActionScript Language Reference
- a swf compiler and more
- swftools

My first trials ended with a moving square rotating on click ... not very ... but I have some idea how it works.

Entity Relation Diagrams

clemens — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:43:22 +0000

What is the best way to translate a relational database into a drupal based site.

In looking for modules i ran into the next modules.

nodefamily looks promissing to navigate through nodes. It promisses to be a directed graph so it MUST BE cool ;-)

views_fusion makes it possible to create joined views "fuse multiple views into one" It looks unmaintained since may 2007.

nodehierarchy looks like nodefamily.

Just browsing the drupal 6 module list.

clemens — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:47:49 +0000

It's amazing to see so many modules being converted.

I definitely needs to start converting my modules too!

It take quite some time to upgrade my modules. I guess coder.module will help a lot with all hints.

Some references

clemens — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:18:12 +0000

Writing an article without pointer is pointless. So here is a start.

Version dependencies are described here http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html

For a functional dependency specification (Nix and NixOS) see

the paper of Eelco Dolstra http://www.cs.uu.nl/~eelco/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf
the developers manual http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/nix-0.11/manual/#chap-package-management
the project homepage http://nix.cs.uu.nl/nixos/index.html

direct debit payment method for ubercart

clemens — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:45:30 +0000

Call me stupid but I thought it was easy. Building a new payment method. I know drupal development a little. I read the core_systems and ubercart_hooks. No sweat developing this new payment method.

A node as an editable block

clemens — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:57:08 +0000

I want to create a edit node into a block with ajax submit.

I wanted to try panels 2 minipanel with a node%/edit override together. But some hour later ... nothing found yet.

This raw view may be handy: http://drupal.org/node/48816

But why not using some php? Below is a raw version

<?php global $user;

$sql = "select nid from {node} where uid == %d";
$result = db_query( db_rewrite_sql( $sql), $user->uid);
$row = db_fetch_array( $result);

if( isset( $row) && isset( $row['nid']){
$node = node_load( 30);
print drupal_get_form($node->type .'_node_form', $node);
}

Like a DLL hell

clemens — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:46:02 +0000

Just installed some modules. It eventually becomes overwhelming. So many modules.

This is an installation while building a callcenter website.

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