Symfony 2 Preview – It has never been so easy 

The Symfony PHP Framework has, in the past, alienated a lot of developers solely because it was quite a hassle to setup on shared hosting or a local server environment. What’s new in Symfony 2.0? Requires PHP5.3.2+ Doctrine 2 (Active Record is replaced by Entity Pattern, completely rewritten codebase for PHP5.3) PHPUnit for testing, lime [...]

Create your first simple Drupal 7 module 

Create your first Drupal 7 module with the following steps. Create a folder called helloworld in sites/all/modules/custom Create a helloworld.info file Create a template file page-helloworld.tpl.php in your theme directory Enable your module at http://domain.com/admin/build/modules Visit http://domain.com/helloworld This belongs into your helloworld.info file ; $Id$   name = helloworld description = Reinholds Hello World module [...]

Drupal 7 Themes – Browser specific CSS 

In Drupal 6 you had to target IE specific CSS files by adding lines to your page.tpl.php or use an additional module which allows you to target browsers inside your theme.info file. In Drupal 7 however, the recommended way is by using the use drupal_add_css() function in your template.php file. function mytheme_preprocess_html(&$vars) { drupal_add_css(path_to_theme() . [...]

Hello world! 

Welcome to my new blog. The old one got old, so I decided to start with a clean slate. If you came here looking for an old post, I’m very sorry, that’s life I guess, out with the old, in with the new. I’m a web developer working with Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, Zend Framework and [...]