Alex Moreno

removing some folders from git, file .gitignore with these contents:

# Ignore paths that contain generated content.

cache/

files/

sites/*/files

sites/*/private

Using symbolic links for /files directory:

namespace:custom do

    task:symlink do

      run "ln -s /var/www/crucerista/sites/crucerista.net/files/ /var/www/crsta/current/sites/crucerista.net/"

      run "echo 'finished'"

    end

end

after "deploy","custom:symlink"

Some contributtion to add to this Drupal module with which you have been working on?

Very easy, take note:

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My name is Alejandro Moreno Lopez. I'm an spanish developer living in London, degree in Computer Science, who has specialized in PHP and Drupal development.

Debugging cron issues and errors is one of the most tricky things in Drupal. If you are dealing with a big site, with people adding nodes, inserting content which you can't allways force to be commited in the right way, and things like that, it is not unusual to find a cron broken by some "misterious" node.

Well, it is quite easy to find this "misterious" offender, just logging the cron activity. How, very easy, with my new module "cron_killing_finder".

Sometimes you need to upload files to, for example, validate an affiliate with whom you want to start to work.

The problem, is that these affiliate files need to be "clean", no template, no theme, just the code or validation string which they send.

The solution can be very complicated, like creating a new theme just for a group or a contect of pages... or as simple as creating a node with the string which we need and executing a php code with an exit command. Something like this:

valicationStringLikeUZasdBNf6asdfT2asdfafjpdadf===58QYg==

Sometimes in Drupal you need to get the fields for a particular content types. 

"$type = 'mytype';

$fields = content_fields();

$type_fields = array();

foreach ($fields as $field_name => $field_data)

{

  if ($field_data['type_name'] == $type)

  {

    $type_fields[$field_name] = $field_data;

  }

}"

in drupal7 is easier, since we have a direct function:

field_info_instances($entity_type = NULL, $bundle_name = NULL)

very simple:

        global $theme_key;

      echo $theme_key;

if we need more information, we can use this:

       $themes = list_themes();

       $theme_object = $themes[$theme_key];

        // print all the object fields

       var_dump($theme_object);

via http://drupal.org/node/46961#comment-88354

Paginating the results in Drupal is incredible incredible easy. You just have to remember the two "magic functions":

• pager_query($sql, $count);
• theme('pager',10);

pager_query substitutes the typical db_query. Just something like that: 

• // $resource = db_query($sql);  // -> old sentence without pager
• $resource = pager_query($sql, $count); // -> pager

Then, we simple come back to the function that is called by our hook_menu, and we change:

Docs are not allways the best part in programming languages, frameworks or CMS. Sometimes you try to make something and you find problems, just because poor documentation.

It's my situation just now. I was trying to create tpl.php files for a module, and it is really easy... if you follow exactly all the steps.

First, hook_menu:

/**

 * Implements hook_menu().

 */

function mymodule_menu() {

$items = array();

/*