CCK

Creating A Basic User Profile: Tips and Tricks

We've created many sites with user profiles, and every site seems to have a few differences, but there are certain best practices which I would like to share.

Module Requirements

This article concerns user profiles in Drupal 6, and recommends that you have the following modules installed:

First DrupalCamp in Seattle for 2009

This Saturday the Seattle DUG is hosting a one day DrupalCamp. We are calling it a MiniCamp, because we usually manage two day events. This one is a little different. In true BarCamp style, we are not specifying speakers or topics. Heck, a schedule barely exists. The intent is to bring people together, to cooperate and learn more about Drupal. I am really excited about this, because there is more opportunity for everyone to participate.

Programmatically Create, Insert, and Update CCK Nodes

I am working on a new module (uscongress module). The basics of the module is that it imports data and makes it available via CCK nodes. The dataset is a common one (U.S. Congressional Bills) that many people might want to develop applications around. I decided to try to implement the data using CCK rather than as a custom data model, thinking that CCK nodes would be more flexible to application developers.

It has posed three important development hurdles.

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