SuperCali PHP Event Calendar version 1.1.0 released!

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.

Using Rules and Views Bulk Operations to automate Drupal 7

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 …

Modifying Commerce Line Item Access control in Drupal Commerce 7

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 …

Is “Inversion of Control” the future of Web interfaces?

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 releases Commerce Cart Multiple module, recognized as Drupal Service Provider

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, …

A fix for WordPress visual editor not showing – .htaccess!

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 …

Updating WP-Members WordPress Plugin for Twitter Bootstrap

At Inforest Communications, we work a lot with WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS), and also tend to use the Twitter Bootstrap framework as a starting point for our HTML/CSS layouts.  Recently we completed a project using the WP-Members plugin in order to provide a basic, password-protected area of a website.  As is the case …