Back in the olden days of Drupal 5 and 6, the venerable CCK module came with a useful add-on: Content Copy. While it had rough edges, Content Copy allowed you to export a given content type and all of its custom fields into a snippet of PHP. The same module could be used to import that snippet of PHP code on another site and re-create the content type, with all of its settings and custom fields.

Sadly, that feature didn't make the cut when the CCK module became Drupal 7's buil...

CCK in Drupal 6 and FieldAPI in Drupal 7 give site builders a variety of structural and formatting options for carving out new content types. Multi-value fields in particular allow a node or other content element to store lists, collections of links to taxonomy terms, and more. The downside, of course, is the formatting: by default, Drupal's HTML output for multivalue text fields is a big old bag of DIVs. Taxonomy fare a bit better: they're output as proper HTML lists, a semantically proper a...

Code reviews are an essential part of the software development process. Often a code review is considered to be a distinct process and kept separate from day-to-day development. At Lullabot, we consider code review to be a critical component of any development - just like QA, automated testing, and documentation. Code reviews are an acknowledgement that every developer is a human being, and humans make mistakes. No matter the skill or background of a developer, reviewing their code can only i...

Keeping visitors to your site reading and clicking (and -- let's be honest, viewing ads) once they've finished an article can be challenging. Often, lists of related articles or hot news are embedded at the end of each article to provide readers with an easy "next step," but these can easily be lost in the noise of a dense footer or link-heavy site. Enter Slidebox, a svelte module that uses interesting jQuery tricks to prompt users who've finis...