DrupalCamp Toronto - 2008

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I'm hanging out at Drupal Camp in Toronto this week -- listening to other TO-based drupalers talk about what they've done. Here are some notes:

Unit Testing with/for Drupal [development] - Simple Test module
http://2008.drupalcamptoronto.org/content/automated-testing-with-simpletest

  • challenge of unit testing in drupal since many functions change the state of the data / database; so testing on a known data set is critical
  • simpletest admin page lists defined test by module / function.

Theming fundamentals
http://2008.drupalcamptoronto.org/content/theming-fundamentals

  • useful tools
      • Mozilla add-ins - firebug (for css), live http headers (for php)
    • Modules: - contemplate (for CCK content types)

Moving in: how to port your content from * to Drupal
http://2008.drupalcamptoronto.org/content/moving-how-port-your-content-drupal

see slides on slideshare -- emmajane

  • import modules: http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/64
    html_import, node_import, user_import
  • html_import: will load everything within <body> tags of pages and import it. [might be helpful but does it keep urls?]
  • node_import: loads csv files. helpful with CCK [this is the way we moved BoW nominations]
  • by hand: node and node_revisions tables; use sequences table to set the next nid by type [drupal5]
  • xml importer @ driftlogic.net

 

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