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Drupal 6 Experiences
Recently I implemented a complete site redesign for one of my clients whose site uses the Drupal CMS. I have been a Drupal user for about 4 years, and I still run into a variety of problems updating and maintaining the Drupal installation and the web content it serves. During this last redesign, I decided to chronicle my most interesting challenges along with the solutions that I implemented, not only to help me remember what I did, but also to (hopefully) help someone else.
16 January 2011 - Drupal Search Module Causing Cron Job Failure
Challenge: Drupal's internal search module does not index all pages and causes the cron job to fail.
Solution: It turns out that the drupal_goto() statement was the culprit. Read More »
14 January 2011 - jCarousel Photo Gallery Displaying Dynamic Contents in a Div Layer Using jQuery
Challenge: A horizontal scrollable photo thumbnail gallery that, when the individual thumbnail is clicked on, dynamically inserts custom text and/or video objects related to the photo in a space below the photo gallery.
Solution: I used the following 3rd party libraries/modules to get jQuery working with my Drupal installation: Read More »
