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(Other) Harry Potter characters fixture

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:17:04 GMT

Just a funny, yet usefull fixture for testing users in a rails app. Using "somewhat real" fixtures, will keep testing both fun and realistic. Knowing that "Crabbe_ugly_nick" failed, is a lot easier to communicate then knowing "user_t_x01 failed"

(PHP) If a 'bin' exists in the user home, then add that to the PATH.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:16:36 GMT

Put this line in your .bashrc. If the user has a directory named 'bin' then that will be added to the PATH. All scripts in that path (wich are executable) will be available as commands to that user.

(PHP) Routine to update and set variables in Drupal using hook_update

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:00:47 GMT

Drupal allows hook_update_N to run any sort of code. Most of the time, however, people only use this to alter the database scheme. But you can use it for much more. Like setting variables, creating nodes, importing views and so on. This code shows how to set a series of variables in Drupal. When you deploy this code, running update.php will set all the variables as in the listing. I typically catch this in a module called 'projectname_meta'. So this function would go in projectname_meta.install, and will be called from projectname_meta_install and projectname_meta_update_5002, for example.

(PHP) Howto run your own functions on any forms submission.

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:19:37 GMT

By using hook_form_alter, you can add your own callback functions to any Drupal form. These functions will be called when Drupal validates the form and when Drupal submits it. In example below, a module called 'simple_checkout' adds its own handlers to a form called 'ideal_payment_api_issuer_form'. That latter is generated by another module, but we can fill our own tables and run our own validation *in addition to those by the originating module*.

(Bash) Commandline oneliner to get your public IP adress

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:58:52 GMT

Use wget and sed to get your public IP adress (instead of firing up firefox and visting whatismyip.com). Usefull in scripts where you need your public IP adres. There are probably better ways, maybe even a GNUtool that I missed?

(PHP) make a tarball of only the changed directories in a git repos, since last tag.

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:26:20 GMT

make a tarball of only the changed directories in a git repos, since last tag. replace {tagname_last} with any name you siwh to give the tarball replace {tagname_previous} with a git reference (like a tag) from which you want to zip the changes.

(PHP) Remove Drupal's search block "search this site" label.

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:41:26 GMT

Wizzlern, a Dutch Drupal trainer, has a Dutch article online on how to remove the "search this site" label in the Drupal search-block.

(Bash) print a list of bookmarks on delicous in a certain tag.

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:59:52 GMT

Simple wget - grep - sed pipe to print a list of bookmarks on delicous in a certain tag. Replace {USERNAME} with your username. Replace {TAG} with the tag you want a list of urls for.

(Bash) Oneliner to add a public key to a remote servers authorized-keys

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:13:59 GMT

Instead of ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub, you can choose any location on your local machine where your *public* key lives. You may need to adjust the file permissions on remote authorized_keys aftwterwards, depending on the configuration of the remote ssh server.

(Bash) Simple rsync backupscript.

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:05:54 GMT

This script pulls in files with [rsync](http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/), storing them locally with hardlinks for unchanged, and real files for changed -files. * KEY=$HOME/.ssh/id_dsa_passwdless -- an id_rtsa key without a password. --adding this to remote authorized keys must be done with care: you will prbably want to whitelist one IP-adress. * RHOST=ssh.example.com -- the host where to connect to using ssh, or rsync. * RUSER=example-username -- the username on the host. Must have _read_ access in the SOURCE dit (see below). * LPATH=$HOME/Archive/example-com/ -- where to place the backups * RPATH=/var/www/example-com/ -- the to-be-backuped dir. You probably want to add this as script (`backup_example-com.sh`) in `~/bin`, or any other directory available in `$PATH`. And then add it to crontab. See a howto here: http://troy.jdmz.net/rsync/index.html

(Apache) Drupal on PCextreme

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:00:51 GMT

http://pcextreme.nl is one of the Best hosters for Drupal in Netherlands. But they require one change to the .htaccess in order to run.

(PHP) Target=_blank in Drupal link

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:17:14 GMT

(SQL) move Drupal tags from one vocabulary into another

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:41:13 GMT

I had several vocabularies but wanted to merge them into one. A simple query does this for you. The vocabulary_id where I wanted to merge all the tags into is 3 The vocabulary_id where the tags are to be merged from is 7, 8 and 12

(Other) vim search and replace

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:49:49 GMT

(Bash) Run Archivemail on all your IMAP folders.

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:49:15 GMT

Change 'username' (twice!) with your imap username,'password'with your imap password, and 'example.com' (twice!) with the url of your imap mailserver. Works on: Ubuntu with Evolution, sqlite3 and archivemail installed. Evolution is required because evolution stores the available folders in IMAP. sqlite3 is requird to extract those available folders and recurse trough them. This command looks up all the available folders in your imap box, recurses trough them and runs archivemail to archive all the online mail. NOTE: remove the -n (dy-run) flag to actually archive the items. NOTE: remove the -v (verbose) flag to be less verbose. TODO: option to purge empty directories. TODO: store username, password and mailserverURL in a $VAR.

(PHP) Track block/views/cck etc changes in RCS and migrate with Drupal updates.

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:08:00 GMT

Takes a .sql file and runs trough that, each line as an update_sql. Very usefull to track and migrate your blocks/views/cck etc changes.

(Bash) Store Drupal blockconfiguration in SVN.

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:59:17 GMT

A common Drupal problem: how to save e.g. your blocks configuration without dragging an X Gig database around. A simple command that dumps a table in a way that it can be inserted into SVN. Every row is dumped as a single line, and they are sorted. Minimising the differences. This example dumps the data for blocks.

(CSS) Goodlooking Required textfield

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:53:16 GMT

Grab http://blog.kissmetrics.com/common/images/required.png as example for a required image . NOTE: You probably don't want to use this trcik, but rather go for the defacto standard of a red asterisk to mark something required. An asterisk is language-independant and recognisable.

(CSS) Style Buttons,

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:28:12 GMT

Style buttons in Drupal. The images/button-bg.jpg (or png: better) should be a tile of 2x26. It can contain a nice gradient to represent the embossed look of buttons. NOTE: applying CSS to change the look of widgets is considered bad usability; people are used to buttons of their OS, and not used to your (weird) idea of buttons.

(Bash) Return list of modules for each Drupal multisite

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:24:23 GMT

A bash script that calls Drush for all your multisite sites and returns a list of available and installed modules for each site.