I’ve been working on a Drupal project to build a CMS for the production and management of very specific content.

The emphasis is all on the backend system, with tight field size limits (character count including markup) and restricted input (specified tags only).

Because of this I needed to use TinyMCE fully - restricting the valid_elements set, and adding event handlers for paste, and keyup.

I’m working on an AJAX heavy site for a defined audience who all have JavaScript - so I have a form with no submit button that gets submitted by an change handler.

An interesting post from Lullabot today on problems with Drupal’s Schema API and the Twitpocalypse

It turns out that the Schema API doesn’t properly understand the difference between different types of integers

I’ve written a patch for Drupal 7 to enable date and time data types to be defined for the schema API.

http://drupal.org/node/200953

Update : it got removed

I’ve just been checking out the latest development version of Drupal 7 to see what this latest release will offer.

The official notes for the release are here: http://drupal.org/node/156281

This module makes it possible to customise the title of the pages which add nodes to Drupal site.

By default these pages have the title “Create a $node_type”

There are two main options for unit testing PHP: simpletest and phpunit

They both do a lot of the same stuff, both have the ability to run suites of tests and create mock objects.

Simpletest has a built in webTestCase which allows you to perform some integration as well as unit testing.

An example web test for simpletest is:

I recently finished work on a project that really suffered from a lack of build tools.

It was a large project, and while many of us were keen on writing tests we weren’t able to get management sign of to spend some time automating the test process. So even though we did some of the work we didn’t get all the benefits.

It was really frustrating to come back to a piece of work that was well covered by unit tests, only to find those tests broken

I’ve been intrigued by git for a while, but as a long time user of svn I’m kinda cautious about moving on.

So today I had some time and used it to read up on the pros and cons, as well as try things out a bit.

It seems to me that git is clearly the better system; but that svn has the advantage of maturity.

The Drupal project I’ve been working on for the last year involved some fairly heavy file processing, with lot’s of validation.

To simplify the code I made extensive use of Exceptions, I didn’t create that many different Exception classes - but I made sure that any errors which affect the flow of the logic were handled by Exceptions.