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I've been using Drupal for a few years now and I've picked up a few tips & tricks to aid in developing a Drupal powered website.

None of these tutorials should be looked upon as gospel. I'm sure there are better ways to accomplished the things I outline here, but these methods work for me.

Drupal Single Sign-on with Multiple Databases

Thu, 2008-03-13 13:53 — Jeremy

This is a highly experimental project, I've had some funky experiences using it myself, so consider yourself warned.

There are a few single sign on modules for Drupal, you can read about some of them here.

None of them worked for me because:

Flexinode to CCK (4.7 to 5)

Thu, 2008-02-21 13:43 — Jeremy

First you should check out the flexiconvert module as that may meet your needs.

It didn't meet my needs because the site I was working with was very busy and the database was huge. I couldn't just pick one week to say, don't add anymore content and let me try to update this site and hope I get it all right. I needed an update process that would work alongside the live site, not force me to change completely in one step.

Views Theme Function Tips

Mon, 2008-02-04 17:56 — Jeremy

I'm assuming you've read about theming in Drupal, and theming views specifically.

What I often do is grab the code output by the views theme wizard, and then change the name to be more generic so that I can run a bunch of other views through it. Then I add some arguments to the function so that I can assign a class to the list. Notice the $attributes argument that then gets passed to the theme('item_list') function.

My generic function: