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Articles tagged with planet drupal


Caching Drupal entities for faster page loads

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About 2 years ago (soon after Drupal 7 was released), I had a site with a number of fields attached to a content type. When I had to clear caches and reload a page, it would take an awfully long time....

Creating a Linkit Plugin

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Most folk that talk to me about linking content within a Drupal site (and use a wysiwyg module) know that I am a big fan of the Linkit module with pathologic. It provides a nice way to reference conte...

Migrate 2.4 and the new File/Field Handler changes

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I've been playing around with using the new version of migrate for a little while. But its been on the more boring side and learning how to use migrate with CSV files (which admittedly feels quite goo...

Extending dynamic migrations with destination records

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Disclaimer: This posting was written with Migrate V2.3 and less. 2.4+ has a different handler for images. This post should hopefully still be useful if you just omit the parts about the images and han...

But I just want one field! Using field_attach_load()

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Yesterday evening, I was working with a client on their site who are doing some interesting things with one of their custom search pages. They send ajax requests to the backend to get 2 types of value...

Drupal and "Hacking" core - one possible approach

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Click here if you want to skip directly to the 'how' and slides.

History: WHY?!?

Over the years, I've seen and heard the phrase "Don't hack core!" mentioned by countless Drupal developers, designers, ...