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Here are some step-by-step instructions on how I upgrade modules from d6 to d7:

drush dl coder
drush dl grammar_parser
drush en coder_upgrade

put the latest 6.x version of the module into sites/default/files/coder_upgrade/old

go to admin/config/development/coder/upgrade

click the checkbox next to the name of the module you are upgrading to d7

click convert files

make sure there are no error messages

click on the module name

now you are looking at the patch

get the latest 6.x CVS version of the module into sites/all/modules

In my experience, there are several users who don't feel comfortable using the standard Drupal interface to create content on their website. I've noticed that this is the case with reforestation.net, I site I manage: even though I provide users with accounts and training, almost all users end up sending me their content (including images and text) via email, and I have to upload it myself to the Drupal site. The main reasons cited for not posting content to Drupal are: it's too complicated, connection too slow (especially in Africa and the Caribbean); and it does not work as expected.

You can combine Views bulk operations with your own code to make powerful actions which can be applied to several nodes at the time.

Here is some sample code to create an action:


/* describe your action(s) */
function mymodule_action_info() {
return array(
'mymodule_action_callback' => array(
'type' => 'node',
'description' => t('My action description.'),
'configurable' => FALSE,
)
);
}

function mymodule_action_callback(&$node, $context) {

Update May 3, 2010 -- Please see the first comment, below. Some of the hacks in this article are outdated. Please proceed carefully and report your results here!

Background: I was recently making a Drupal site where I needed (as is often the case) a visual text editor along with image- and file-upload capabilities. I tried using the wysiwyg module in conjunction FCKEditor 2.6.x, which is a good combination for that purpose.

Since this does not work out of the box, I followed the instructions here.

If you have a drupal site on a cPanel account, you can set up cron in cPanel. Here is how:

(1) Your site is, say, example.com
(2) Log into cPanel (example.com/cpanel)
(3) Go to cron jobs > standard
(4) Enter the following code in your cron:

(replace example.com with your actual website)

Most of our clients have bilingual (French and English) websites. The Language Switcher Block is a great way to switch between languages, but we often don't want to display the active language. For example, on a French-language page, we want to have a link to English (not French and English).

Our solution is to add the following css either to your theme, or, if you are using a contrib or core theme, to css injector. (Messing with a core or contrib theme will cause your changes to be lost during upgrades):