Open Source content management systems (CMS), such as Drupal, Joomla and WordPress, provide the opportunity to leverage an existing code base to tackle Web projects more quickly and with less expense than using proprietary code.  Because the software is free, both in terms of cost as well as the ability to extend and modify, Open …

The venerable SuperCali Event Calendar is updated to run on the latest version of PHP! Originally released in 2006, SuperCali had been downloaded over 10,000 times by 2008. While it seems the era of stand alone PHP scripts has past, there are still a number of sites still using our calendar software, including several of our clients.

This post is primarily focused on how to use the Rules module to automate actions on your Drupal site. It discusses the differences between a Rule and Rule Component; how to use Rules to identify, evaluate and modify associated fields of a node or other entity; and how to pass data to a Rule with …

This is a short follow up to a previous post that covered how to alter access restriction queries for Drupal Commerce entities.  This includes situations where you want to show information in a View but need to provide an alternate logic for allowing access to view the results. My previous post details a function that utilizes …

Drupal Commerce provides a number of “entities” that serve as content containers for the various elements of an e-commerce order. These entities include products, customer profiles (addresses), and orders. In addition, Drupal Commerce uses a “line item” entity to specify entries outlining products, tax and shipping fees that make up an order. In most cases, access to …

Responsive design isn’t going to be enough when it comes to providing workable user experiences for mobile Web users. New techniques are leading to an “inversion of control” from server side to client side interactions and interfaces will increasingly mimic look and feel of native apps in terms of navigation an touch control. The founder …

Inforest Communications is proud to announce the release of the Drupal project, “Commerce Cart Multiple,” a module that provides the logic and user interface necessary to support multiple shopping carts within the overallDrupal Commerce project. Initially developed to support the needs of one client, Commerce Cart Multiple was contributed within the spirit of the shared, …

In the course of developing custom code for websites, we often write programs to work with established open source content management software, such as Drupal and WordPress. One of the tenets of open source is the idea of giving back to the community of developers who work with the software by contributing code back to …

Today had Leon and I banging our heads against a new WordPress installation that was displaying a blank screen in the visual editor.  We searched for possible causes and solutions, which included disabling possibly faulty plugins and verifying that all WordPress files were installed. In looking more closely at the browser console, what first appeared to …