Fbloggs Geekdom » Drupal http://www.fbloggs.com Duncan's musings on tech related topics Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:26:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How To Assign The Current Date and Time to a MySQL Datetime Field using PHP http://www.fbloggs.com/2010/02/18/how-to-assign-the-current-date-and-time-to-a-mysql-field-using-php/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2010/02/18/how-to-assign-the-current-date-and-time-to-a-mysql-field-using-php/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:50:49 +0000 fbloggs http://www.fbloggs.com/?p=295 This is a no-brainer, but I always forget how to do it. MySQL datetime fields are stored in this format: 2010-02-18 10:33:18. Here’s a trivial example showing you how to populate a datetime field with the current date in the…

]]> http://www.fbloggs.com/2010/02/18/how-to-assign-the-current-date-and-time-to-a-mysql-field-using-php/feed/ 1 Using Aptana Studio 2.0 and PDT Plugin for Drupal Module Development http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/12/03/using-aptana-studio-2-0-and-pdt-plugin-for-drupal-module-development/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/12/03/using-aptana-studio-2-0-and-pdt-plugin-for-drupal-module-development/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:45:57 +0000 fbloggs http://www.fbloggs.com/?p=207 Aptana now uses the official Eclipse PDT (PHP Development Tools) plugin instead of their own PHP editor. I have Aptana 2.0.2, build date November 10 2009 on my Macbook.  I’m building a Drupal module, so I need to have PDT…

]]> http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/12/03/using-aptana-studio-2-0-and-pdt-plugin-for-drupal-module-development/feed/ 2 How To Create News Items in Drupal – Part 2 http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/11/21/how-to-create-news-items-in-drupal-part-2/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/11/21/how-to-create-news-items-in-drupal-part-2/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:24:31 +0000 fbloggs http://www.fbloggs.com/?p=199 This is a continuation of the previous post that explained how to create a custom content type called News, and show News items using the Views module.

Creating A News Page with a Monthly News Archive Block

This post explains how to create…

]]> http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/11/21/how-to-create-news-items-in-drupal-part-2/feed/ 27 How To Create News Items and a News List in Drupal http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/11/06/how-to-create-news-items-and-a-news-list-in-drupal/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/11/06/how-to-create-news-items-and-a-news-list-in-drupal/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:04:03 +0000 fbloggs http://www.fbloggs.com/?p=180 Drupal does not come with an out-of-the-box news content type. You could use a story or a blog entry, but these are not an exact fit for what I wanted.  Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to create your own ‘News’ content…

]]> http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/11/06/how-to-create-news-items-and-a-news-list-in-drupal/feed/ 22 How to make content private in Drupal http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/06/11/how-to-make-content-private-in-drupal/ http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/06/11/how-to-make-content-private-in-drupal/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:00:45 +0000 fbloggs http://fbloggs.wordpress.com/?p=74 http://www.fbloggs.com/2009/06/11/how-to-make-content-private-in-drupal/feed/ 7