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Kat Bailey has posted an excellent overview of the changes in javascript usage between Drupal 6 and 7. Particularly relevant is AHAH usage, which she sums up in Drupal 6 as follows: “AHAH forms make people want to jump out of the window of very tall buildings”!!! which is SOOOO true (I struggled for about a month to get an AHAH for working earlier this year…then figured out that AHAH doesn’t play nicely with CCK).

Also new: merlinofchaos has implemented an AJAX framework, and jQuery UI is in core. Plus there is the ability to use other libraries too, not just jQuery. Drupal 7 is gonna rock!

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The short story is this: Snow Leopard has php 5.3.0 in, and although Drupal 6.14 now runs on that version, all previous drupal versions run on 5.2. [Solution? Manual compile - instructions below]

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After chatting with Max_headroom on irc I decided to organise a drupal meetup in Cape Town. Adrian Rossouw will be demoing Aegir (a hosting system for drupal) – and many Capetonian drupallers – and those who’ve only recently heard about drupal – will be there. We are meeting at 1pm this Saturday (May 2nd) at Wembley Square (map) and you can sign up here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/21581

See you there!

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quickfile is a module which allows the selling of files quickly and simply. The first time I went through the process I wasn’t emailed my confirmation link, so putting in the correct PayPal settings into the config worked:

1. Login to your paypal account.

2. Click on Profile

3. Click on Website Payment Preferences

4. Under Auto Return for Website Payments switch on auto-return and make sure your IPN Url matches what the quickfile module indicates under ADMIN -> QUICKFILES -> PAYPAL

5. Under Payment Data Transfer (optional) select ON

6. Save those changes. When the confirmation screen appears you shuold see a very long list of letters and numbers. That’s your PDT token that you need to put into the quickfile module settings page

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More and more people are taking open source content managers and building sites with them. The usual suspects are Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal. Here is an article from the April Adobe newsletter that gives a basic overview of these three (as well as XOOPS and CMS Made Simple) and provides a recommendation for the most flexible, scalable system which also has an “enthusiastic user community” – I leave it to you to read the article and discover which one wins

Technorati Tags: CMS Made Simple, Drupal, Joomla, open source, Wordpress, XOOPS

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As you know, I’m a freelance web developer, which means I make websites do cool things (making them look cool is a designer’s job) and to do that, I use the “linux of the internet”, a little piece of software magic called Drupal. Drupal is open source, meaning anyone can poke under the hood and change things, and it has a robust user community around it, constantly improving it.

The big news of the last few days is that Dries Buytaert, Drupal’s founder, has co-founded Acquia, a startup company which will give the financial muscle necessary to keep Drupal at the forefront of the web (especially in implementing open API’s which would allow Drupal to integrate with Facebook, OpenSocial, 2nd Life and others, allowing for some cool mashups). Acquia won’t annex Drupal or fork the code or make it closed-source. It’s intention is to be as what Ubuntu or Red Hat are to Linux. I think this is a great move, especially since Dries (who will retain the Drupal trademark while the Drupal Association continues to operate drupal.org) writes:

Furthermore, I’m expressly permitted to make decisions within the Drupal project that may not always be in Acquia’s best commercial interest.

Overall, this is a Good Thing for Drupal.

Technorati Tags: Drupal, Acquia

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