Drupal 7

Built a Small Drupal Module Last night. "Block Inject Filter".

Many times, mostly in content sites, the administrators find it difficult to find means of inserting ads in all of their articles, at the end of a per-defined paragraph, say 2nd paragraph. Block Inject Filter solves this by providing a configurable Text Filter that can be used on any Input Format in Drupal.

It can be configured to inject any predefined Custom Block into all content that use the Text Format which has the filter configured.

Was building a web service that serves RSS feeds from an existing Drupal website today. The feed URL had to accept parameters like the Drupal site username and password for authentication, dates for
filtering the nodes to be rendered in the feeds. I have heard about the Services module or customizing the Drupal RSS feed as needed.

Finally its here, Drupal module for Article Spinner.

A module that automatically spins your content before saving it.

Built an API for the Article Spinner. Was fun building it over the weekend. Infact it is the first webservice that I built for a Drupal system. This API allows users of ArticleSpinner.in to spin articles programatically without having to manually copy-paste into the form at www.articlespinner.in

Coming soon would be a Drupal Module that allows you to spin the content automatically when you make a post!

Ever wondered what would be the order of execution of same hooks from different modules.

Say you have two modules active m1 and m2, each of which have the following functions
m1_node_presave($node) : Replaces Node's Title with "Title A" before saving
m2_node_presave($node) : Replaces Node's Title with "Title B" before saving

What would be the title of the node when saved?

Then you gotta check out hook_module_implements_alter

Was trying to redirect on a form submission to an achor tag on the same using
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But it turns out that the result of the $form_state['redirect' actually causes redirection to "spinner%23spinned", with the passed url being URL-Encoded.

Passing an absolute URL to this solved it!
$form_state['redirect'] = $base_url . 'spinner#spinned';
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• Trying to create nodes or taxonomy terms programatically?
• Have characters like "é", "è" or "à" in the title or body or any of the fields?
• Struck with database errors while doing node_save ?
• Is the text being truncated after the first occurrence of such a character?

Stop pulling out your hair on these encoding/charset problem...

With Drupal, everything is encoded (and expected) in the UTF-8 charset.

I had a situation similar to this:

I had to fetch a bunch of nodes using a query like select * from nodes where

In each node, load the node, using node_load, check if a field has certain value

Based on that, perform some actions on the node and save the node.

The problem here was that the nodes that I was trying to loop through belong to a content type that has like 5 fields. And doing a node_load was resource heavy as it would have to perform a join operation on 50+ tables to get the values of all the fields of the node.

From http://drupal.org/node/1524316

I had www.ArticleSpinner.in running on wordpress.

For those who havent stubmled upon what an Article Spinner is:

A tool that rewrites an article using different words / phrases, trying to retain the meaning of the original article as much as possible

The earlier WP version was good but had its limitations