Although Drupal 7 has some great class autoloading features available, in the last couple of years there have been some moves in the PHP community to create some more standardised methods for autoloading. Once such move is the PSR-0 standard, central to Drupal 8, and you can use it in your Drupal 7 projects right now.
Congratulations to the PreviousNext team members who had their DrupalCon Sydney 2013 sessions selected! With the complete list of sessions now officially announced, it's shaping up to be the biggest Drupal event to hit our shores.
You would think by now that maps would be all sorted out in Drupal 7, you would be wrong. Maps in Drupal, or anywhere, have never really been sorted out. Maps are a complicated tangle of moving parts. Starting a new project that needs maps can be a challenge. Fortunately, there is a solution with OpenLayers.
Ever written custom code to check if your textfield is a positive integer? I sure have. Then I found an easier way.
We recently migrated a large, popular radio site from a bespoke .NET application to Drupal. Migrating large amounts of content, users, tags, relationships and files is made easier with the migrate module. Here's how we did it.
Bean stands for Block Entities Aren’t Nodes and provides a new method of displaying content on a Drupal site. Still require some clarification as to what this module provides? I sure did when I first looked at Bean so I will take you through the basics of implementing your own module that takes advantage of Beans.
The media module is described as 'a file browser for the web' and promises a much more unified and usable experience when dealing with files on your site. But it isn't without its problems.
