[support] support Digest, Vol 133, Issue 24: Databases

Tue Jan 14 00:21:09 UTC 2014

The best book you can get is Pro Drupal Development. Believe me, it will
become your lifeline and covers everything. I got it off Amazon for dirt
cheap. It's a big book but it will help you.
Good luck.
Chris

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On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:06 PM, <support-request at drupal.org> wrote:

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>    1. Re: Best ways to intigrade my blog post on drupal to appear
>       on my home page. (Richard Damon)
>    2. Re: Best ways to intigrade my blog post on drupal to appear
>       on my home page. (Jamie Holly)
>    3. Databases (Tony)
>    4. Re: Databases (Metzler, David)
>    5. Re: Databases (Warren Vail)
>    6. Re: Databases (Tony)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 07:59:03 -0500
> From: Richard Damon <Richard at Damon-Family.org>
> Subject: Re: [support] Best ways to intigrade my blog post on drupal
>         to appear on my home page.
> To: support at drupal.org
> Message-ID: <52D3E317.501 at Damon-Family.org>
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> On 1/13/14, 6:41 AM, Jonathan Candler wrote:
> > So you guys are telling me, that I cannot include include function
> within my PHP scripts to point D.XML file over to my homepage?
> >
> > Jonnyboy! Iphones rock!
> >
> >
> It isn't that you can't, but that it may be easier to let Drupal do the
> functioning. I suppose another option would be to add an iframe to you
> home page making a reference to a Drupal page with the content you want
> (like a special page removing the sidebars/headers/footers/etc that you
> don't want in the iframe).
>
> --
> Richard Damon
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 09:57:01 -0500
> From: Jamie Holly <hovercrafter at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [support] Best ways to intigrade my blog post on drupal
>         to appear on my home page.
> To: support at drupal.org
> Message-ID: <52D3FEBD.5000903 at earthlink.net>
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> You could do as I said earlier, write some custom code to parse your
> blog's feed.
>
> Another option would be to create a block in views, bootstrap Drupal
> from your home page and render that block. This could lead to some
> screwy problems though, especially with URLs (setting $base_url in
> settings might fix that). That can also lead to performance issues with
> caching and that.
>
> A simpler option would be to create a page in view of your latest posts
> and the information you want to appear in the block. Then use jQuery to
> load that on your main page, selecting out just the part of the DOM tree
> that has the actual list and injecting that into your site.
>
> A better option would be a custom module that generates an html page of
> your latest posts and saves it to the files system. Then you could
> include that as an iframe on your main page. That would by far be best
> performance wise and a lot more stable.  It's also not that hard of a
> module to write (a function to generate the HTML widget/list called on
> hook_node_save()).
>
> Jamie Holly
> http://hollyit.net
>
> On 1/13/2014 6:41 AM, Jonathan Candler wrote:
> > So you guys are telling me, that I cannot include include function
> within my PHP scripts to point D.XML file over to my homepage?
> >
> > Jonnyboy! Iphones rock!
> >
> > > On 12 Jan 2014, at 1:21 pm, Richard Damon <Richard at Damon-Family.org>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On 1/12/14, 2:00 PM, Jamie Holly wrote:
> > >> I agree 100%. You could parse the feed from your blog and display it
> on
> > >> your home page, but that would probably take about as long as
> converting
> > >> your site to totally be managed by Drupal.
> > >>
> > >> Jamie Holly
> > >> http://hollyit.net
> > > You don't even need to convert all of the rest of your site to Drupal.
> > > Drupal works fine with pages generated by other tools (as long as they
> > > don't need to use index.php) or even static pages.
> > >
> > > You would need to convert the home page, but other pages might not need
> > > to be changed.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Richard Damon
> > >
> > > --
> > > [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:36:32 -0800
> From: Tony <tony at tony-mac.com>
> Subject: [support] Databases
> To: support at drupal.org
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> Does anyone know of a good book covering how to work with databases and
> drupal?
>
> Thanks
> Tony
>
> --
>
> *Anthony Stefan Maciejowski*
>
> *http://about.me/TonyMac <http://www.about.me/TonyMac>*
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> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 23:38:55 +0000
> From: "Metzler, David" <metzlerd at evergreen.edu>
> Subject: Re: [support] Databases
> To: "'support at drupal.org'" <support at drupal.org>
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> Not sure what you mean here.  Are you talking about writing code using the
> drupal database API db_query, etc.?   If so Drupal Pro Development is a
> good start.  Perhaps you?re talking about using working with external
> non-drupal databases?  Or something else?
>
> Dave
>
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of Tony
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 3:37 PM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: [support] Databases
>
> Does anyone know of a good book covering how to work with databases and
> drupal?
> Thanks
> Tony
>
> --
>
> Anthony Stefan Maciejowski
>
> http://about.me/TonyMac<http://www.about.me/TonyMac>
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> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:52:53 -0800
> From: Warren Vail <warren at vailtech.net>
> Subject: Re: [support] Databases
> To: support at drupal.org
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> Drupal 7 Module Development has a couple of good chapters on developing
> modules that create and use entities, and there is another book out there
> on Drupal 7 Entities that I have yet to tackle.  I would also love to see
> something that shows how to implement "No SQL" high demand Databases like
> Mongo or Cassandra.  While I know I'm missing lot's on these newer flavors
> of database systems, I can't help but wonder if Drupal will ever run on a
> "No SQL" platform, or if that is where we are all headed. First glance
> suggests that perhaps Entity Classes will provide the keys to
> transitioning.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Metzler, David <metzlerd at evergreen.edu
> >wrote:
>
> >  Not sure what you mean here.  Are you talking about writing code using
> > the drupal database API db_query, etc.?   If so Drupal Pro Development
> is a
> > good start.  Perhaps you?re talking about using working with external
> > non-drupal databases?  Or something else?
> >
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:* support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org]
> *On
> > Behalf Of *Tony
> > *Sent:* Monday, January 13, 2014 3:37 PM
> > *To:* support at drupal.org
> > *Subject:* [support] Databases
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know of a good book covering how to work with databases and
> > drupal?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Tony
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > *Anthony Stefan Maciejowski*
> >
> > *http://about.me/TonyMac <http://www.about.me/TonyMac>*
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:06:50 -0800
> From: Tony <tony at tony-mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [support] Databases
> To: support at drupal.org
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> Exactly the first scenario.I have that book but it doesn't really go into
> the detail I need.  As you say it is a good start. But I need a good
> finish.
>
> I have created a module with a form which should CRUD (can one say that?)
> to a table I have defined in the install file. If I could just find some
> sample code... How to insert (I know db_insert etc but what about the
> return codes and messages etc etc) .
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Jan 13, 2014 3:39 PM, "Metzler, David" <metzlerd at evergreen.edu> wrote:
>
> >  Not sure what you mean here.  Are you talking about writing code using
> > the drupal database API db_query, etc.?   If so Drupal Pro Development
> is a
> > good start.  Perhaps you?re talking about using working with external
> > non-drupal databases?  Or something else?
> >
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:* support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org]
> *On
> > Behalf Of *Tony
> > *Sent:* Monday, January 13, 2014 3:37 PM
> > *To:* support at drupal.org
> > *Subject:* [support] Databases
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know of a good book covering how to work with databases and
> > drupal?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Tony
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > *Anthony Stefan Maciejowski*
> >
> > *http://about.me/TonyMac <http://www.about.me/TonyMac>*
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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