If you’re a die hard javascript aficionado and haven’t bothered to look at jQuery you might be thinking, what’s all the fuss about? The best way to explain is by a code example. The scenario is, your manager calls you … Continue reading →

MAMP (Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP) will get you up and running with a working LAMP stack in minutes. Simply go to http://www.mamp.info, click the ‘download now’ button below the grey MAMP icon. Once the file is downloaded, extract the … Continue reading →

Google analytics provides a wealth of information about the users who visit your website. If your site is built in Drupal I would highly recommend enabling this functionality, even if you’re not interested in SEO. It can be really interesting … Continue reading →

It is remarkably simple to add inline add/edit functionality to edit and delete nodes from a view. To add an edit button, click the add fields button, select the Node: Edit link, click Apply (all displays) button twice and then … Continue reading →

If you want to start leveraging the power of Drupal Entities, you may feel a bit overwhelmed when you start to delve in the code. After conducting your own research and reading through a few tutorials, my biggest tip is … Continue reading →

Using one method to read from multiple RSS feeds by using one standard coding method may cause problems. This is because there are different types of feeds. One could be an atom feed and the other an RSS feed, and … Continue reading →

When you’re creating reports you will often work with a date range, a start date and end date.  If it’s a monthly report the user will select month and pass this to the report function. This function will then work … Continue reading →

Get Your Zend Config Parameters from Outside of the bootstrapped Zend Framework Application.  The majority of my time is spent writing code using the Zend Framework. Sometimes I’m asked to write a separate script that is periodically scheduled to run … Continue reading →