Category Archives: Drupal

Building Drupal with Reusable Fields

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. [...]

Building Drupal with Naming Conventions

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 [...]

nginx+drupal revisited

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 [...]

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