Harden Your Drupal Websites
A great tutorial that I found a few weeks ago that describes how to harden your Apache and Drupal configurations, and contains some great security-related points.
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How to use Authorized Keys to Create a Passwordless SSH Connection
Rather than have to search through Google whenever I need to find the original article, I thought that I'd post it here for my own reference.
local$ ssh-keygen -t dsa
local$ scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub remote:~/
local$ ssh username@remote
remote$ cat ~/id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
remote$ chmod 644 ~/.ssh/authorized_keysSite Upgraded to Drupal 7
As the vast majority of the Drupal websites that I currently work on are built on Drupal 7, I thought that it was time that I upgraded this site. Following the core upgrade process and the CCK migration process, everything was upgraded smoothly without any issues.
How to Install and Configure Subversion (SVN) Server on Ubuntu
Recently, I needed to set up a Subversion (SVN) server on a Ubuntu Linux server. This post is going to outline the steps taken, and the commands used, to install and configure the service.
Note: As I was using Ubuntu, I was using the 'apt-get' command to download and install the software packages. If you're using a different distribution of Linux, then this command may be different. I'm also assuming that Apache is already installed.
Firstly, I'm going to ensure that all of my installed packages are up to date, and install any available updates.
Create Multigroups in Drupal 7 using Field Collections
One of my favourite things lately in Drupal 6 has been CCK 3, and more specifically, the Content Multigroups sub-module. Basically this allows you to create a fieldset of various CCK fields, and then repeat that multiple times. For example, I use it on this site whist creating invoices for clients. I have a fieldset called 'Line Item', containing 'Description', 'Quantity' and 'Price' fields. With a standard fieldset, I could only have one instance of each field - however, using a multigroup, I can create multiple groups of line items which I then use within the invoice.
Imagefield Import Archive
I've finally uploaded my first module onto Drupal.org!
Proctors Hosting the next Drupal Meetup
Proctor & Stevenson are going to be hosting the next Bristol & South West Drupal meetup on the 25th May at our offices. You can view more details here, or register via the form on the Proctors website.
Proctor & Stevenson
2 weeks ago, I handed in my notice of resignation to Horse & Country TV because I've been offered a new role at Proctor & Stevenson - a Marketing Design and Communications agency in Bristol.
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One Year Blogiversary
One year ago today, I added my first blog post onto this website. Since then, I've added a total of 34 posts and received 9,947 visits, as well as adding my website development portfolio and testimonials.
Many thanks to everyone who's readed and commented on my blog posts during the last 12 months. Hopefully, this time next year, I'll be reporting back with some even better figures.
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Display the Number of Facebook fans in PHP
Replace the $page_id value with your Page ID number (unless you want to show the number of fans for this site).You can find your Page ID by logging into your Facebook account, going to 'Adverts and Pages', clicking 'Edit page', and looking at the URL.
For example, mine is https://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/?id=143394365692197&sk=basic.
I've also wrapped the output in a number_format() function so that it properly formatted with commas etc - like where I've used it within the Gold Event listing on the Horse & Country TV website.
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