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- How many ways can you theme user profile pages?July 25 2007
- Some sites need extra customization to make pages look a certain way. This is often done via theme customization. One area that often advanced clients ask for is the user profile page. Drupal core offers pages based on profile categories, which each category listing the fields that belong to it. The following methods require some additional programming.
- Changing your RSS feed to include image node thumbnailsJuly 25 2007
- A site we worked on wanted to have the thumbnails for image nodes to be included in the RSS feed, so subcribers can get a preview of what the image is like before clicking. So, using the 'rss item' $op to hook_nodeapi, we were able to do this in a relatively simple way, with no need to modify either Drupal's core nor the image module. This article applies to Drupal 5.x, but may also be adapted to 4.7 and 6.x.
- Creating nodes using mini-forms anywhereJuly 25 2007
- Recently a client needed to have a mini form for creating specific types of nodes on the fly from anywhere on the site. So, instead of the user clicking "Create content" then "foo" then filling in the form, then clicking submit, a form for that type of content will be shown on most pages in a block in the side bar. So, they can create that type of node quickly. There are two ways to do this:
- Incremental backup of Drupal using rsync to iBackup.comJuly 25 2007
- Rsync is a remote file sync protocol written by the same people who brought us the Samba project. Rsync copies files from one location to another keeping both copies in sync. This means that files changed on location A will be copied to B and vice versa. Rsync is also used by ibackup.com is a commerical service for online backup and online storage.
- Hosting Virtualization: OpenVZ vs. Xen, which is best?July 25 2007
- Since 2bits moved into using VPS (Virtual Private Servers) when Xen became available we did not have to directly use other technologies, such as Virtuozzo, OpenVZ (free version of Virtuozzo), or the older User Mode Linux. However, two recent cases proved what we have suspected for a long time: that indeed Xen is superior to competing technologies when it comes to performance.