Adelle Frank user experience designer, voter advocate, web developer in Atlanta, Georgia

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Education events at DrupalCon Portland 2013

Drupal cms logo A list of education-related events happening at DrupalCon Portland. Let me know if I've missed any!

How to easily migrate pages from Drupal 6 CCK content types to Drupal 7 fields using the Feeds module

Atlanta Drupal Users Group logo One of the easiest ways to upgrade between version 6 and version 7 of Drupal is to re-build your site in Drupal 7, and then use the Views Data Export and Feeds XPath Parser modules to move your pages and articles into your new site.

This post shows you the details of setting up both a D6 View you can export and a D7 Feeds importer you can use to migrate that View content. 

If you notice anything missing or confusing in these instructions, please post a comment, so that I can improve this tutorial. Thanks!

How to replace HTML tags and text in a Drupal database using phpMyAdmin and SQL

Drupal cms logo Did you validate your drupal website and realize you need to replace some unclosed HTML4 tags with XHTML strict self-closing tags? Or maybe you're adding in some ARIA roles to make your text a bit more accessible.

Lo and behold: you will suddenly need to use your web host's phpmyadmin interface and SQL to find and replace strings of text in drupal's database.

Don't panic! Here's how you do it.

Catalyzing Drupal collaboration & coding at your institution

Rock Eagle logoEnjoy the slides, resources, and install profile code from my "Catalyzing Drupal Collaboration & Coding at Your Institution" presentation, given at Rock Eagle on October 25, 2012.

Backing up and migrating: where content is stored in Drupal database tables and files

Drupal cms logo You need to backup your Drupal 7 database and site, possibly because you have finished testing and want to move it to the live web server. The problem: you don't want to waste space backing up LARGE tables or files that you don't need, but are unsure which tables and files in your Drupal site to ignore. The solution: Adelle's guide to Drupal 7 tables and files (see below).

How to Recover after updating to webform_civiCRM 6.x-2.4 when your Drupal 6 site uses civiCRM 3.x

Drupal & CiviCRM logos combined Are you using Drupal 6's webform module with CiviCRM version 3.x? Did you install the webform_civiCRM-6.x-2.4 module, and your site stopped creating civiCRM contact links for your webform reports?

First: re-set your site to use webform_civiCRM-6.x-2.3 and re-create the auto-assignment of civiCRM groups for each webform.

Next, if any webform submissions were created before you realized the problem and re-set your site as described above, follow the below steps to re-create links for those submissions.

How to send email notifications for comments in Drupal 7 with actions & triggers (or the Rules module)

Rules module logo Do you have a Drupal 7 web site? Do you want to get an email when someone comments, so you don't have to check your site all the time? Don't panic! Here's how you do it.

You don't need to install any new modules to do this in Drupal 7. All that's needed is a little configuring and to copy and paste in a short bit of code.

Update: Both the easiest & most powerful way to get these notification emails (in Drupal 6 or 7) is to install and configure the Rules Module. NodeOne has a great set of video tutorials on their site explaining how to use the Rules module. I've also put example code for a Rules-based email notification in the comments to this post for both Drupal 6 and Drupal 7

Drupal's BadCamp: Berkeley, California

badcamp directional signThis DrupalCamp, held in Berkeley, involved lots of delicious food and great conversations...and a few Occupy Berkeley signs, too.

How to Debug Drupal and LAMP

Atlanta Drupal Users Group logo Using a more scientific method & customer-centric approach to debugging Drupal, rather than randomly trying things, will greatly increase your productivity.

This presentation was given by Robert Ristroph at DrupalCamp Atlanta 2011.

Equally importantly, Rob gives specific tips and tools for debugging common problems in the different parts of a Drupal installation.

If my notes in this post are not enough, you can also watch a video of Rob's similar presentation in June at the Colorado DrupalCamp.

Mobile, Responsive & Adaptive: Tweet archive from DrupalCon London 2011

DrupalCon London logo A big meme at DrupalCon London this year was mobile, so I've arranged the tweets that featured the words "mobile", "responsive" or "adaptive" by the sessions to which they belong. 

Let me know in the comments if I missed any tweets or have placed them with the incorrect session.

Hope you enjoy this archive and that you start getting some Drupal 7 Theming ideas!