PHP

Drupal, by default, does not support automated logouts based on inactivity. Thankfully, there is the "Automated Logout" module, which allows granular control of automated logouts. And for browser exits, there is a value you can set in your settings.php file.

More and more of our clients are wanting to track their site metrics from more than just google and since there aren't really any great modules for adding the Yahoo! tracking code; I thought I'd share exactly how I went about adding them. The problem is that if I simply place the tag on the page.tpl.php file then I get the code going site wide and if it's a conversion code, I only need it to trigger for certain pages. We tried creating individual pages and then placing the code in the body, but the problem is the Yahoo! code must be placed into the tags.

As Drupal becomes more popular and grows its open-source development community, more websites are turning to it as a solution for creating extremely powerful online communities, allowing users to submit their own content to a community hub. The power of these hubs is obviously their users and creating an organized, easy to use interface can be the difference between failure and success.

I wrote up a doc detailing Drupal related stuff that needs to be done to launch a Drupal site. Here is the info for discussion and anyone who finds this useful.

Here is a 5-step process to have full control over the output of a node. This method lets you stay at the theme/display level and gives you full control over output without having to implement any hooks in a module. You'll often find that you can get the desired output without resorting to any PHP template or HTML coding using the first two steps.

First: Edit the order of fields

From the content type edit page, click on the Manage fields tab. The URL is admin/content/node-type/[mynodetype]/fields
From here, drag and drop the fields in the order you want them displayed.

Adding the following code in any PHP area in Drupal will give you settings values available client-side that you can use when writing JavaScript code.

Pass a key/value associative array to drupal_add_js() and give it type value of 'setting'. Note that I am using an array of arrays with the key of the first array as the name of the module. This is to namespace the settings. This will keep your settings from overriding others and others from overriding yours.

//PHP code in your module or in a PHP snippet anywhere on your site
 
$jquery_settings = array(
  'myModule' => array(
    'mySetting1' => 'myvalue1', 
    'mySetting2' => 'myvalue2' )
);
drupal_add_js($jquery_settings, 'setting');