Flash video in Drupal (links)
6th May 2008
Some things to be aware of when enhancing Drupal site with FLV video playing/conversion features.
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6th May 2008
Some things to be aware of when enhancing Drupal site with FLV video playing/conversion features.
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6th April 2008
This post provides several links which would be useful for the beginning Drupal developers, or developers deciding which CMS to use as the base for their next project. Also, strengths of Drupal are highlighted.
Intensively working with Drupal during the past two weeks, I find it to be an excellent tool, and also much more than a YACMS.
Now I think that Drupal is also a framework – providing invisible to developer caching, session handling, access control, theming, localization, and more. The minimal effort required to extend already huge Drupal functionality is to write your own module – and, if done right, your module will immediately benefit from all the bonuses Drupal provides.
But Drupal also really shines as a CMS! You can start with a free design theme, and without any PHP knowledge have your custom portal built within a week – with your own hands, if you desire! (Note: “within a week” is true, but only if you already know what exactly you should be doing; learning time is short, but it’s not within that same week.)
What makes Drupal so powerful? I’d say that beautiful core and numerous modules.
What Drupal has to offer?
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31st March 2008
Is that only me, or WordPress is really leaning towards the Drupal ideology?
Here’s what I mean:
I wonder, what will be next. PHPTemplate support, as default theming engine?
Or no-backwards-compatibility policy?
Or, best for WP users, advanced Drupal-like caching and throttling techniques?
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26th March 2008
drupaldojo.com – at the moment of writing, has 42 video-lessons (screencasts) of developing with Drupal.
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26th March 2008
Drupal technical introduction
It’s quite old, but as it describes core functionality, it should be still actual.
Please comment if you know of any other good high-quality technical Drupal introductions/descriptions.
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8th September 2006
Post last updated: April 18, 2010.
Now there is a Drupal 6.x module available. It is in no way related to the migrate script(s) below.
The newest script version migrates from PHP-Nuke 6.5 to Drupal 5.x.
Download the latest version of the migration script.
In 2002 I set up a PHPNuke-6.0 – based portal. Eventually it died due to the lack of time investments and support from collaborators. Now, when time came to revive the project, I made a search and decided to use Drupal as a base CMS for the portal.
In order to migrate userbase from an old portal to the new Drupal-powered one, and following the topic at drupal.org, I found a script and its modification.
I used it to migrate only users, and made some cosmetic changes:
Finally, I would like to thank both Karthik Kumar for the original script and Alexis Bellido for the 6.0_to_4.7 modification.
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3rd August 2006
When you have a new web-project just about to be started, you frequently face the problem of the CMS selection – ‘Which CMS is better’? There’s a hundred and more various CMS out there. To name just a few – PHP-Nuke, PostNuke, Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, e107, XOOPS, Nucleus, Typo3, Xaraya, YACS! (visit http://www.opensourcecms.com/ for much more and try for yourself).
If you gooogle this problem, you will get loads of forums discussing topics like ‘Mambo vs Drupal’, ‘PHP-Nuke vs PostNuke’ etc. But, to be sure, this ‘source’ of information is not likely to really help you choose. What you need is a good in-depth overview of the systems.
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