Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011
There are a number of things that Drupal and Ubercart does out of the box that are brilliant. However, there are a few things that you will probably need to get your site running well and capable of dealing with payments and running as an e-commerce store in the UK.
VAT Install the VAT module (http://drupal.org/project/uc_vat). As it is a requirement for most products sold in the UK to be eligible for VAT then you need a good way of dealing with it. ...
Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011
So, if you have missed it, Drupal 7 is stable (it has been since the start of January), and this means that more and more people are going to be looking at Drupal 7 both now an in the future to work as their content management system. Much of the work I do involves either migrating sites from other formats (CMSs, static sites or bespoke sites) into Drupal or importing of other data into Drupal to open the data to Drupals awesome data management and processing. ...
Monday, Jan 17, 2011
So, you have a kicking Drupal Ubercart site but you don’t like the way that the shopping cart block works. Maybe you want it on one line. Maybe you want to change the structure of it? How can it be done?
A little bit of investigation leads us to line 751 of uc_cart.module.
function theme_uc_cart_block_summary($item_count, $item_text, $total, $summary_links) { $context = array( 'revision' => 'themed-original', 'type' => 'amount', ); // Build the basic table with the number of items in the cart and total. ...
Friday, Dec 31, 2010
After the recent period of DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on sites which appear to have been linked to Wikileaks; PayPal, Mastercard, Amazon etc. A question arose to me. Is there any way that a business can prevent themselves from being vunerable to DDoS attacks.
Now to define a DDoS attack. Wikipedia defines it as “an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users” (DoS Wiki). To use an analogy, if we think of a server as a plughole in a sink. ...
Tuesday, Oct 19, 2010
At last nights DrupalCambs Meetup, a discussion arose about why to use something, be it computer-based or otherwise. The conversation based upon why to use a base theme and build up from that as opposed to creating a custom theme in Drupal, however, I thought that the kernel of the discussion was focussed on why we try to develop new options/ideas. Three words were ringing in my head; easier, quicker, better. ...
Sunday, Sep 5, 2010
I have been reading recently about developers giving realistic timescales to deliver projects in. I am well aware that developers can over and under estimate projects and also that you can spend a lot of time developing a project only for the idea to be changed just before the site is ready to be released. However with this in mind here is my Drupal migration timescale equation:
D + 12 + P + F = H ...
Sunday, Sep 5, 2010
I had a whale of a time trying to get some data posted onto Google Base, to enable the shop to sell items from Google Products. Although I am sure that popular e-commerce packages, and probably CMSs, all have uploader modules/components/plugins to do this for you, it is difficult trying to do a bulk export with xml so here is a quickie I wrote to help with getting the correct syntax for Google base using PHP’s XMLWriter tool: ...
Tuesday, Aug 24, 2010
Learning is something that all of us probably do all of the time, both consciously (by reading newspapers/books/adverts/BBC website) and subconsciously(from surroundings etc.). However, when you want/or need to learn about something new, or to develop your knowledge on certain aspects what is the best way to go about it.
Personally I do very little reading for pleasure. Although that is not entirely true I look at reading more as the acquisition of more knowledge than the passive fictional sense of being taken through a story. ...
Wednesday, Jul 28, 2010
I recently presented at the NetSquaredCamb Meetup group. Here are the presentation slides Open Source CMS for SMEs, Charities and NGOs.
Open source content management systems (OSCMS) are being utilised by a growing number of organisations, not only to manage their presence on the Internet, but also to assist in the running of their business processes and give workers flexible working arrangement. How can small to medium businesses, charities and non governmental organisations use OSCMS to drive efficiency and grow their business within the specific restraints over these businesses, with all resources; budget, time and knowledge being at a premium. ...
Monday, Jul 12, 2010
Getting in the right server for your business; one that will be capable of managing all of your requests and give you space to grow without costing the earth or having a facebook like amount of servers is a tricky bit of business. Here is a quick overview of differing servers and their benefits and disadvantages.
VPS (Virtual Private Servers) Are servers located on a virtual environment within a host machine. ...
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