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Sep 05 2010

drupal_to_js() vs vanilla PHP json_encode() for conversion to JSON

by Joseph Smith

When needing to output JSON for a module I've been working on, I turned to drupal_json() and found this to be a very frustrating function to work with, as it simply doesn't seem to work. It's...

Jul 13 2010

Introducing drush, drush make and installation profiles

by Joseph Smith

One of the inherent weaknesses of Drupal is the setup time involved to get a project up and running. D7 has remedied this somewhat by adding many commonly used contributed modules to core, but the issue of setup/maintenance time does not stop there. ...

Mar 20 2010

"Requiring" Attributes in Ubercart

by Anya Petersen

Attributes in Ubercart can be "required", but what does this mean? My first impression was that I should check "required" if I did not want a user to be able to add the product to their cart without setting the value for that attribute. In fact, the attribute will...