Archive: drupal

Drupal is an excellent PHP based open source content management system with a wealth of features. It allows rapid development of feature rich web sites and can easily be extended to cover a wide variety of useage scenarios from basic CMS to social networking portal, eCommerce and more. Edmonds Commerce specialise in open source PHP [...]

Magento, the ecommerce package that everyone is talking about at the moment and that Edmonds Commerce have been keeping a close eye on for the past couple of years or so has won the best of open source enterprise software award for the second year running. Run by InfoWorld, the awards highlight the cream of [...]

It’s always tempting when you are new to a framework or system to just roll your own functionality if the built in functionality is not obvious. I was nearly at that stage with Drupal 6 file uploads. Thankfully before I gave in I found this useful blog post which clearly states how Drupal’s built in [...]

Working on a couple of custom Drupal modules at the moment and I have to say I’m really enjoying working with the Drupal forms API. I really feel like I have a wealth of cool features at my disposal without any particular effort or complication. It’s a very logical system that does what it does [...]

Working on a custom Drupal module in Netbeans and wondering how to get Netbeans to treat the file as a PHP file even though the extension is .module? All you need to do is right click the file and select “Open As”. Then in the dialog box select the PHP option and that’s it. Sorted. [...]

For content or community driven websites I definitely recommend taking a close look at the PHP based open source package Drupal. Like other successful open source packages, one of it’s key strengths is in the tremendous breadth of additional modules that are available allowing you to create your custom mixture of features specific to your [...]