How to : Create Triggers in Drupal - Actions and Triggers

Actions and Triggers are awesome, and they made it into core with Drupal 6. The combination of the modules creates an event and responder system for Drupal. On a basic level, Triggers are like events in (for instance, creating a comment). Actions are then the responding procedure that Drupal takes based on that Trigger.

Tips : Drupal backup script

First it is necessary to create a backup user on the database which has (only) read access to everything. This is because its password will be embedded in the backup script which reduces security. This can be done with:

BKUSR=backup
BKPW=backuppassword
BKDIR=/var/www/dbbackup
mkdir -p $BKDIR
echo "GRANT SELECT, LOCK TABLES ON *.* TO '$BKUSR'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '$BKPW'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;" | mysql -u root -p

Tips : Drupal Home Page Creation Techniques

This is a guide based on a post in the Drupal support forum. The current version of this guide is a work-in-progress, and will be tweaked and improved with any advice and tips provided in the comments, and will also have some screenshots added to help guide you through the process.

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Tips : 4 Things to Know Before Installing Drupal 6

[1] Make sure that you update your MySQL database to version 5

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Tips : Programatically creating a CCK field in Drupal 6

The first step is to create the field using CCK's UI. Once you've got the field setup the way you'd like it use PHP's var_export() to dump the contents of the node's field as an array:

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