Drupal: .htaccess Access Deny
August 21, 2014 – 7:59 am | No Comment

In this article I will tell how to forbid access to certain resources for some clients. The instructions will include descriptions of different directives.

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A template lover. Do send me all your fantastic templates, I would love to review them!

Drupal: Hide Body Field
August 25, 2010 – 3:53 am | No Comment
Drupal: Hide Body Field

This article is actually a tip of how hide Body field. When hidden, Body will not be shown neither on a form nor when node viewing.

Drupal: How to Create CCK-Field
August 5, 2010 – 7:39 am | No Comment
Drupal: How to Create CCK-Field

You need to create CCK-field. For example you may need to create CCK-field from hook_update_N.

Drupal: How to Replace PHP 5.3 with PHP 5.2 in Ubuntu 10.4
August 2, 2010 – 7:51 am | No Comment
Drupal: How to Replace PHP 5.3 with PHP 5.2 in Ubuntu 10.4

Some modules work incorrectly with PHP 5.3. Many hosters have PHP 5.2 and you should have environment similar to server’s one for developing. Therefore it is necessary to downgrade php packet updates.

Drupal: Changes in Book Module in Drupal 6
July 30, 2010 – 2:59 am | No Comment

This article describes how to find and understand changes in Book module. This will make you able to adapt snippets and modules which interact with Books module in Drupal 6.

Drupal Modules: Nofollow List
July 28, 2010 – 8:12 am | No Comment

Allows a blacklist of sites that will have a rel="nofollow" attribute added to their link tags whenever used on your site. Originally the only page in the blacklist was Wikipedia, though it now allows an …

Drupal: How to Disable Indexing Links on Your Site
July 26, 2010 – 6:56 am | No Comment

From this article you will know how to forbid search engine bots indexing and following certain links.
Solution

Drupal: How to Redefine $search_box Output
July 23, 2010 – 8:47 am | No Comment

This article is devoted to changing of the standard search box which is passed to .tpl.php through $search_box variable.

Drupal: Optimization of cron.php
July 21, 2010 – 9:06 am | No Comment

 
You need to run cron frequently (for example, every 10 minutes). And meet some problems on this way.
Modules launched by cron work with external sites and connection with them can be bad or script …

Drupal: How to Backup Database Automatically
July 19, 2010 – 11:06 am | No Comment

 
This article would tell you how to create back of database automatically on a regular basis.
Solution (for Unix users):

Drupal: How to Create Backup of Site Files
July 16, 2010 – 9:04 am | No Comment

This article would tell you how to create backup of your Drupal-based site in different ways:

Using Unix command (you will need SSH-access for this)
Through site control panel
Downloading files by FTP from server

Using Unix …