Indigenous peoples using Drupal: Kanhgág Jógo A few years ago, we've been "recruited" by a Linguistics professor to help build a website for the Kaingang people to use. Written by José San Martin _read more
Drupal Summit Latino 'Tamos en Lima! It's the last day of Drupal Summit Latino and we're here blogging directly from the UNI (by the way, what a nice acronym for a university), where people all across South and Latin America are gathered for Drupal. From Uruguay to Nicaragua, from Brazil to Spain, we're here to talk about Drupal and to do Drupal. Written by José San Martin _read more
Backup and Migrate Dropbox released Backup and Migrate simplifies the task of backing up your Drupal installation, it's very handy specially when you administer several Drupal installations, but sometimes you want to store you're backup outside your server. B&M itself support several destinations (from mirroring to another MySQL database to FTP download) and now using Backup and Migrate Dropbox you can export your backups directly to your Dropbox account. Written by Fabiano Sant'Ana _read more
Using Context 3.x and Zen 2.x together If you're using Context module in your site, and Zen as your base theme, when you upgrade to Context 3, your site will probably broke, this can be fixed quickly by editing your template.php and add this code in your hook_blocks: <?php function _blocks($region, $show_blocks = NULL) { if (module_exists("context")){ // Since Drupal 6 doesn't pass $show_blocks to theme_blocks, we manually call // theme('blocks', NULL, $show_blocks) so that this function can remember the // value on later calls. static $render_sidebars = TRUE; Written by Fabiano Sant'Ana _read more
Fixing Drupal 7's "Call to undefined function filter_var()" on Gentoo If you're getting PHP fatal this error while running your Drupal 7 on a Gentoo server a quick suggestion is check if your PHP has the filter extension enabled as it is required by Drupal 7 Core. If you don't the only thing you need to do is follow those steps: $ flagedit dev-lang/php +filter $ emerge dev-lang/php After emerge completes, just restart your http server and you're done! Written by Fabiano Sant'Ana _read more