Changents

On giving View, Edit, Revision, etc. tabs to administrators only.

In Drupal, tabs are not printed by the node, but by the page. On the one hand, since views and administrative pages and anything else you can think of can have tabs, this makes sense. But on the other hand every node can have

Personally and professionally I think links should open in the same tab, but some clients insist on opening external links in new tabs.

<?php
/**
* Override theme_menu_item_link
* http://api.drupal.org/api/function/theme_menu_item_link/5
*/
function phptemplate_menu_item_link($item, $link_item) {
// make external links open in new windows

A note of warning about the length of notes to follow: This is site configuration at the point where it verges on developer documentation, such is the power of Drupal, and there's some outright theming in here too. This article is a reaction to doing sidebar graphics the painfully non-Drupal way.

Note that Views and CCK's imagefield module have excellent imagecache integration and you only need these steps if you want very fine-grained control-- in our case, automatically populating the ALT text of the image with the node title.

/admin/build/views/wizard

and

http://agaricdesign.com/note/how-theme-lots-views-agaric-way

and then a little

<?php
print '

';

For the necessary admin_menu module, I prefer the initial settings to not collapse fields on the modules page

With current initial settings this means unchecking "Apply margin-top to page body" and "Collapse fieldsets on modules page." Instead of going through this step every time this should be rolled into Agaric's basic/base installation profile.

So you have a directory structure of a project, say it's a giant site you're taking over, and you want to open it as a project in Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) to be able to use the project-wide search and other cool tools.

add new users to an svn repository:

sudo vi svnrepo/conf/passwd

See from what repository checked out subversion code is from by looking at the entries file in a dot SVN folder:

ben@server:/var/www/drupal-5-live/sites/democraticmedia.ca$ vi .svn/entries

Here is the key line, "https://dev.grassrootsconnection.org/svn/drupal/anderson/trunk/democraticmedia.ca," from this output:

8

dir
1375

Lesson of the day: don't reinvent Drupal functions.

<?php
/**
* Generate a really lame random password. This would be cooler with words.
*
* Still, gratitude to Jon Haworth, from whom this code was taken.
* http://www.laughing-buddha.net/jon/php/password/
*/
function changents_tl_au_rand_password($length = 5) {
// start with a blank password
$password = "";

Not truly random in some cosmic computer science sense, but good enough for non-mission critical (or rather, nothing for anyone to exploit the not-complete-randomness) uses.

http://www.php-scripts.com/php_diary/122799.php3