Drupal 7.x

Polyconseil, a consulting firm serving the Communications and Media industries, consults on a wide range of opportunities for telecom operators, media networks and global companies.
We are looking for an experienced Php developer with a solid knowledge of the Drupal CMS to reinforce our team serving a leading international TV news network.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We’re looking for an experienced and creative web application developer who writes clean code, communicates effectively, and is motivated by building meaningful and mission-critical products. As web application developer, you will play an instrumental role in the design and implementation of a rich content Drupal platform.

This is an ideal position for someone who enjoys the rhythm of agile, test-driven development cycles and the rewards that come with delivering technology that has instant impact on a growing business.

REQUIREMENTS

Skills:
• PHP5
• Drupal 6 and 7
• Extensive XHTML, CSS, DOM and JavaScript experience
• A solid grasp of jQuery
• Minimal conversational French

Personal:
• Self-motivated and ready for a challenge
• Enjoy fast moving development cycles
• Passionate
• Learner
• Team member with excellent communication skills

Competitive fixed salary plus bonus arrangements
Job Location : Paris, France

Speaking to companies who host Drupal websites, what sort of systems do you use for automatic updates of contributed modules and/or Drupal core? Other than the obvious steps of testing updates in a non-production environment and scripting the actual file updates, what best practices are there the perspective of a company hosting multiple (20+) Drupal websites for clients?

Thanks,
Cliff Smith

Hi, i am new to drupal and I am install drupal 7 for my final year project and ive got problem with settings file but i have already created settings.php but still wont work. i need help!

Settings file The settings file does not exist.
The Drupal installer requires that you create a settings file as part of the installation process. Copy the ./sites/default/default.settings.php file to ./sites/default/settings.php. More details about installing Drupal are available in INSTALL.txt.

I was wondering if there was a way to add a break between the shouts if I were to put the shoutbox in the header of my website. My users prefer it so I thought I'd ask.

Example:

w/o break:

username:shout username:shout

w/ break:

username: shout
username: shoutbox

Of course I'll limit the number of shouts shown

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I am a web developer/designer and have been looking for a good framework that I can use for my projects, but one that will also integrate seamlessly into a CMS that is hopefully easy to use for my clients. So naturally, Drupal was the first brought to my attention. I have installed and messed around with it, and while I haven't gotten my head wrapped around it yet, I like what I see.

I've read a bit about there being a fair amount of differences between 6 and 7. Would it still be worthwhile for me to start learning on 6 (which I have a book about, "Pro Drupal Development") or should I wait until 7 is out? I'd really hate to learn something and then have to completely undo my way of thinking to suit the latest version. I don't want to get stuck in a position with a large project and a framework I don't understand (I've been there, it equals angry clients and hair loss. I like my hair and want to keep what's left of it).

In previous Drupal versions almost every module defined its tables, handled writing, reading, data entry and presentation. Although CCK existed, few modules went so far to say 'although this is somewhat specific to my module, I will instead use fields'. It was simply too unwieldy to be used from modules. In Drupal 7, field API is in core and is an API – the focus is coding with it and not creating things from the browser. I think every module will use it for the tasks outlined above. Organic groups already do. Drupal 7 coding is becoming more “precision surgery” as most of the work is done by the field API, you just need a few well placed alters to get the customization you need.

However, field API introduces a lot of new concepts and because it's a new API, there are a number of “gotchas”. This writeup is a quick introduction to the new concepts and points out the gotchas that make learning the API harder.

Entities

One of the most often used components in Drupal are the nodes. Nodes are organized by the node type: they can behave differently, be themed differently etc based solely on their type. Although it's rather trivial, let's note that nodes have a primary identifier (nid). Nodes even have revisions (vid).