Running Drush in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
To run drush - the Drupal Shell - you need to have a php shell command installed. Up to Mac OS X 10.5 I just used the php command delivered by Apple. In Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) it changed to be version 5.3 which currently still conflicts with Drupal 6 and therefore breaks drush.
Contact forms to blocks
Ever wanted to show your Drupal contact form at every page using a Block? You can now by using the Contact form blocks module.
Sending email from a local development machine using a Smart Host
Sending email from your local machine using Drupal or any other PHP based application often does not work. The solution is to use a remote mail server (called Smart Host) for delivering emails.
PECL uploadprogress extension on Mac OS X using Fink
To use the eye candy uploading progress meter of the CCK FileField module you need to install either the APC byte cache or the PECL uploadprogress extension.
Time Machine backup to My Book World Edition NAS
How to do Time Machine backups on the My Book World Edition NAS (network attached storage).
Default Input Format per user role
What are Input Formats
Input Format in Drupal are filters which modify the content of a page before it is displayed to a visitor. Out of the box Drupal provides 2 input formats:Rollenbasierte Zugriffsbeschränkungen in Drupal
Folgende Module stehen zur Verfügung, um Zugriff auf Nodes nach Rollen einzuschränken.
Disable spell checking on Mac OS X
It drove me nuts to disable the automatic spell checking on text input fields in Mac OS X again and again to make that red lines going away on technical terms or other stuff not known by the spell checker.
Roundcube, Dovecot IMAP and case sensitive user names
Do your mail users like it to use mixed upper/lower case in user names? So the problem described below may hit you.
Your mail user is known to the system as user.name@domain.tld.
Preview to Direct Debit payment processor for CiviCRM and Drupal payment gateway module
Update: Our modifications to CiviCRM are in CiviCRM 3.0 core now. We will publish the Payment Processor and the corresponding Drupal module in the next weeks. Don't expect fast process though - we are quite busy currently. Use our demo at http://civi.fuerstnet.de (username and password: demo) meanwhile.
German only: Lesen Sie eine Beschreibung des Payment Processors auf crmproject.de.
Work in progress: This is at the moment just a preview to provide more Information to the CiviCRM community.
At present we are developing a payment processor for CiviCRM (v.2.2) called DrupalDirectDebit. This payment processor works with a self developed payment gateway -- which is actually a drupal module.
Attention: This module stores sensible data (bank account data from clients) in drupal's database.

