Software Development

I've been granted maintainer status for the orphaned Directory module. (The project page is new; previously there was no project page on drupal.org for this module.)

I've checked in a few fixes/improvements - please visit the project home page or the module documentation for the latest information.

View fully-functional live demos at: RoadCarvin.com, amadorable.com or bunnytrade.com (all running Drupal 4.7 and latest stable version of this module.)

How do I keep my Drupal 4.7 site(s) backed up?

There are several modules to help you:

• backup.module Creates an on-demand tarball backup of your database and site files, and downloads them to your browser.
• Database Administration module Allows interactive backup of database tables (among other things.)

I've created a simple classified ads module for Drupal 4.7 and Drupal 5. It is now in use on a large number of Drupal-based sites.

Background

My classified module creates a new node type ('ed_classified') and associates an expiration time stamp with all nodes of that type. Borrowing from the image.module image gallery scheme, it creates and associates a custom taxonomy with the classified ads. Site administrators then need to create child taxonomy terms for each classified ad category. As with any Drupal taxonomy, ad categories may be nested to arbitrary depth.

When using multi-site configurations in Drupal 4.7, and you want to use URL rewriting in .htaccess to force 'www.' or non-'www.' subdomain access, the rewrite rules used in the standard .htaccess file may be problematic.


# If you want the site to be accessed WITH the www. only, adapt and uncomment the following:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
# RewriteRule .* http://www.example.com/ [L,R=301]

#
# If you want the site to be accessed only WITHOUT the www. , adapt and uncomment the following:

I'm working on an alexa API module that will allow your Drupal-based site to provide embedded Alexa site ranking information.

As of now, this module provides a number of useful features:

• Generate img tag url for Alexa charts - embed Alexa charts in your site pages
• Query Alexa toolbar data and return it in XML format
• Caching of queried data