Drupal 6

There have been a lot of bug fixes as well as the a complete rewrite of the checkout. The checkout ATM is only a single page and options like changing address and payment type have not been put back in. These are going to use the #ahah feature of the new formapi to allow users to change much easier. I am going to put back multi page checkouts, but this will be done by configuration and not be forced on the site admin.

The checkout api has completely changed and is now much more modular and should allow for much better formed functions.

We're proud to announce the second and final beta release of the Aegir hosting system for Drupal.

Ægir is a new set of contributed modules for Drupal that aims to solve the problem of managing a large number of Drupal sites. It does this by providing you with a simple Drupal based hosting front end for your entire network of sites. To deploy a new site you simply have to create a new Site node. To backup or upgrade sites, you simply manage your site nodes as you would any other node.

This release is feature complete with the main roadmap of Aegir. It will allow you to install, back up, restore, enable, disable and delete your hosted sites. It is considered mostly production ready, and should be safe to run on a production system.

This release will become the first RC in the next week, if no more bugs are found. The only changes that will be allowed into this release
are documentation and bug fixes.

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p>Less than 5 months ago I posted a review of "Drupal 5 Themes" by Ric Shreves. I was really jazzed to have our first book dedicated to theming Drupal. But I was concerned that it was trailing too far behind Drupal's release schedule.

Hey Theme Gurus,
I'm a theme newbie looking for good how-to resources for the theme engine in Drupal 6. I'm just starting to learn PHP, but I've been web programming with other modern OO languages for the past 10 years. I've hacked around with some of the themes freely available on drupal.org to try to learn it myself, but it's proving to be a little overwhelming.

Av alla de sajter jag sett så verkar ingen ha "delat upp" en nod på flera webbsidor, utan en nod presenteras alltid i sin helhet. Jag har verkligen letat dokumentation, moduler, tips, exempel, grupper etc i en vecka nu, utan att hitta någon som helst ledtråd. Det här är enkelt att lösa "utanför" Drupal så att säga, men det är inget konstigt behov så det borde finnas en standardlösning, eller?

Tänk er följande:
- En databas med akvariefiskar.
- En speciell content type för akvariefisk.
- Olika delar (typ flikar):
o Allmän info + bild (startsida för en akvariefisk)

My book review pasted from Amazon.com. I reviewed the book for the publisher but that never guarantees a good review, so read on.

I must say I was asked to review this book, and I was very excited to do so. I thought it'd be good to comment on areas for people who aren't familiar with Drupal on a daily basis yet, and to give you some background, I was very excited to read this book. I needed a book that had the words "Drupal 6" and "module development" in it and luckily this book was titled exactly that and delivered. So, to newbies and non-newbies I offer the following review.

If you're impatient and don't want to read this review all the way, then just know this book must be read by each programmer who will be tinkering with Drupal, so yes, I recommend it. This book is not for people learning how to use modules, this is for people who plan to code and build their own modules. This book is not large, has great learning material, and brings tons of info down from Drupal's web site documentation into stress-free chapters. One entire chapter (Ch. 2) covers how to do an entire module from scratch and following chapters show how expand that module and build, and build, and really get to know important APIs that come with Drupal core.

In all honestly, I'm jealous that most new users get to read something as collected as this to learn from. If you read this book you'll basically catch up with content I took months, if not over a year to explore and read online. I had also held off heavy Drupal 6 development for myself until a book like this came out, so we're in the same boat.

Hey all...
In this comment I mentioned that I'd like to demo how to podcast (audio or video) using a new CCK/Views method for Drupal 6. You can check out a video podcast on this method now, if you're interested. I'm hoping lots of people find that this method of podcasting makes sense and start to go this route.

Watch It Here

I'm just wondering if anyone could shed any light on the status of the brilliant ecommerce module for drupal. I'm currently building every new site from drupal 6, so am looking to guage a release date for a version of the module which is ready for version 6 of drupal.

Thanks in advance for any info,
chris
Listings Lab

Jag satte ihop en screencast över hur man installerar ett nytt språk på Drupal 6. Det är lite märkligt att medan många saker blivit lättare att göra i D6 har just installation av språk blivit svårare.

I am just starting a multisite drupal setup. My plan is to have some magazines with pretty much all the same functionality. even the themes will be the same with differnet images. I was looking at the drupal virtual site module, but have not tried playing with it. Its sounds pretty sexxy but I have not started playing yet. does anyone have any experience. This is a D6.2 project.
the link is here: http://drupal.org/project/virtual_site

Here is the sticking point... I want to have one code base, but the domains are separate...

www.domain1.com
www.domain2.com
www.domain3.com