Friday, January 1st, 2010
CCK and Field API
CCK is the most useful module for Drupal. It adds custom fields and content types to Drupal. Drupal 7 incorporates the community efforts of CCK into the core as the Field API.
The CCK module allows a content type to have multiple fields with various field types and different field widgets and formatters. [...]
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Creating Drupal sites is easy and requires no fancy skills. Drupal installation is simply one-click; setting up modules is simply one-click; creating new content types is also simple mouse clicks. Unfortunately, the power of control over Drupal is usually abused because of Drupal’s initial impression of simplicity. When building a hobby site, Drupal entities, such [...]
Saturday, August 15th, 2009
nginx
Recent nginx updates support try_files and internal location directives. These features make nginx more flexible as a web server for Drupal.
try_files checks for existence of files in order, and returns the first file that is found. In Drupal’s logic, try_files enables the server to check Boost-generated cache, imagecache images, and Drupal installation in order.
@location syntax [...]