Creating a Doctrine provider for Zend_Tool

Submitted on 6. July 2010 - 11:33.
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Zend_Tool provides a provider for adding database configuration lines to application.ini. When using the provider, you don't have to remember in what format the data must be entered in. The provider even asks for the required data, if you don't enter them!

zf configure dbadapter "adapter=Pdo_MySql&username=root&password=yourpasswordhere&dbname=zfunittest2"

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Essential Drupal modules

Submitted on 7. June 2010 - 23:36.
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One of Drupal's greatest assets is the amount of existing contributed modules. Think of a feature and you will probably find one or more modules providing that. Sometimes there are 3 or more modules targeting the same problem. It can be difficult to choose the correct one.

Over the last 14 months I have been working a lot with Drupal, Drupal 6 to be more specific. A long with each new project, we have often stumbled upon certain modules, over and over again. Currently we are using about 10-15 same modules in all projects.

Testing Drupal 7

Submitted on 6. June 2010 - 15:57.
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Drupal 6 is the latest available stable version. Drupal 7 is just around the corner. As of writing, there are still about 70 critical issues to be solved, before a release is even thinkable.

I have so far avoided Drupal 7 almost completely. The few things I know about Drupal 7 is that it now uses PDO(!!). Until now, that is. I decided to take a look at the current development version to build a personal picture of Drupal 7. I wanted to see how the administrative tools have evolved since Drupal 6. What is better and what is worse and so on.