Web Development
Web Development, Programming, SQL, LAMP, et al
Migrate from SMF Forum to Drupal
Sun, 02/14/2010 - 7:48pm — hunter
Recently I needed to do a migration from the Simple Machines Forum (SMF) to the Drupal Native Forum. I think most people by this point have heard of Drupal, and if you're reading this, chances are you're in a similar situation. If you want to migrate from SMF to Drupal, there is no direct route beyond writing your own Migration software from scratch in PHP. In this project I'm migrating from a Bridged Joomla and SMF site that has roughly 16,000 posts and about 1100 users.
Backing up w/ Drush
Tue, 12/29/2009 - 12:07am — hunter
Drush, my favorite new tool, is proving to be quite useful. Drush saves you time by picking up your connection string from the sites settings.php folder that you're backing up, you no longer need to configure each backup script individually.
sample usage for this script would be:
bash backup.sh /full/path/to/drupal/site <optional> archive_prefix <optional> #of days to keep archives for
Taxonomy data as term view header
Tue, 12/22/2009 - 12:16pm — hunterIf you would like to create a page view that takes a term id as an argument (like my technology, portfolio pages), You can use the following code in the header of the Views 2 Taxonomy Term view.
Kokopellis Earth
Mon, 12/21/2009 - 9:33am — hunter
Sometimes I get requests from friends to help them with a business they're trying to get started. Often times when someone is considering how to get going, one of the first bullet points is "Create a basic website". I met with my friend and helped him figure out what pieces of his business process he could efficiently and feasibly do within his budget. In this discussion it became clear that as a art and music venue he needed to:
DGA Partners
Fri, 09/18/2009 - 8:55am — hunter
DGA Partners, healthcare management professionals is a full service management consulting firm, in Philadelphia. They had an existing contract with a technical writing firm who was had a very explicit idea of how things should look and feel. They had wanted to implement their new site on a CMS, but had heard that CMS can be very difficult to design for. I worked with their design/content people to implement their ideas.
- CMS
- Custom Templates
- CSS/Javascript
- Server setup
