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Drupal Themes: Breaking files out into sub-folders
02/03/2011 - 10:43
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While working on large Drupal installations theme folders can get very large. If you have numerous whatever.tpl.php files it can become quite confusing to locate the template file you need to edit when you need to make a change to your site. On top of that, if you are adding a lot of additional variables through pre-process functions (you are doing this in preprocess functions right, not in the tpl's...) your template.php file can become quite large as well. To remedy this there are two very simple things you can do to help organize your files and develop a theme structure that is much easier to maintain.

Programming Libraries
01/07/2010 - 04:38
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I have recently been working with a lot of javascript and php libraries and thought that I might list a few for anyone who would be interested.  From what i have been reading around the internet there seems to be a heated debate over whether or not using javascript and php libraries is a "crutch" for web developers or a just great time saving tool.  What are your thoughts?

Magento Setup on Godaddy
05/31/2009 - 02:06
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So if anyone has ever tried to install the Magento E-commerce application on a godaddy server they may have encountered a few problems.  This is an outline of things to watch out for when installing Magento on a Godaddy linux server.