Breadcrumbs are these tiny paths you find at the top of the page. Next to the menus they provide an additional way to navigate the site. Furthermore, they help the visitor to position himself within the site’s structure.
Dec 232011
Aug 072011
We had already installed the OpenX advertisement server before. Now we want to integrate the ad management system into a Drupal site.
Aug 042011
After installing the Drupal core, the Reports section in the administrator’s interface warns us that APC is installed but not enabled. This feature makes it possible to show the progress of a file upload to the server.
Aug 032011
Almost a year ago, we got very excited after looking into Drupal. Back then, version 7 of this Content Management Framework (CMF) was not yet available.
Today it is. And although not all modules are available for the new core, version 7 looks even better than its predecessor.
In this article we describe the complete installation of a multi-site Drupal system. Continue reading »
Apr 282011
Last time, we created buttons for bookmarking, permalinking, mail forwarding, and printing. However, these days, your website can not be complete without some sort of social media integration. In this article we add page-specific buttons for LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook to our site. Next time, we round up by setting up three general social media buttons. Continue reading »
Apr 242011
After we successfully installed the OpenX ad management system, we can now integrate this tool into our website. That allows us to set up accounts and management interfaces for individual advertisers, or to display advertisements from the OpenX Market. Continue reading »
Apr 062011
Often, a web page contains not only a navigational menu (on the left or at the top of the page), but also a menu offering page-oriented (local) functions. You are likely to find buttons for bookmarking, permalinking, mailing, and printing at the right of the web page. In this article we describe the code to set up these four functions for your site. Continue reading »
Mar 302011
Trying to install OpenX, we encountered a segmentation fault that caused the Apache httpd daemon to crash. The problem was caused by the libphp library. So we decided to upgrade from PHP version 5.1 to 5.2. Continue reading »
Feb 212011
When it comes to HTML encoding, URL encoding, and internationalization (i18n for short), there appears to be a lot of confusion among PHP programmers. Since most web browsers are quite forgiving, a lot of programming errors are never discovered. Worse: programmers write huge amounts of code without ever realizing their output is not compliant with the W3C standards.
In this article we explain the differences between ordinary (UTF-8/ASCII) text, HTML encoded text, and URL encoded strings. To generate the right type of output at the right place, we deploy the PHP functions urlencode and htmlentities. Furthermore, we show how to combine these with the gettext function _(). Continue reading »