[support] support Digest, Vol 133, Issue 26: FREE online course

Chris McAndrew chris at csmcreative.com
Tue Jan 14 00:28:16 UTC 2014 

I
​ signed up for that too. My brother told me about it and it seems really
good. Nice to see people sharing resources!

Take care,
Chris McAndrew​
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:21 PM, <support-request at drupal.org> wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:16:30 -0800
> From: Tony <tony at tony-mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [support] Databases
> To: support at drupal.org
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> Thanks. I did take another quick look at Pro Drupal Dev and see I forgot
> the chapter on DBs. Must re-read.
> I would recommend this FREE online course at Stanford too.
> https://www.coursera.org/course/db
> Starts tomorrow actually. It is really an excellent resource and can be
> revisited whenever in the future.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Jamie Holly <hovercrafter at earthlink.net
> >wrote:
>
> >  Pretty much the books others have said. There's not really a specialized
> > book, as there really isn't anything specialized with how Drupal handles
> > databases. That's mostly due to the fact that Drupal is able to function
> on
> > different databases. The database documentation on DO is really some of
> the
> > best too:
> >
> > https://drupal.org/developing/api/database
> >
> > For more generic reading, anything on PDO will be really helpful, as it
> > will give you the basic idea of how PHP and databases communicate. Also
> any
> > general MySQL book to help learn the basic ideas behind relations,
> > transactions and building optimized queries.
> >
> > Jamie Hollyhttp://hollyit.net
> >
> > On 1/13/2014 6:36 PM, Tony wrote:
> >
> >  Does anyone know of a good book covering how to work with databases and
> > drupal?
> >
> >  Thanks
> >  Tony
> >
> > --
> >
> > *Anthony Stefan Maciejowski*
> >
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> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:18:57 -0800
> From: Tony <tony at tony-mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [support] Databases
> To: support at drupal.org
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> OK will do. Thanks.
>
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> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Jamie Holly <hovercrafter at earthlink.net
> >wrote:
>
> >  Check out the DBTing part of the examples module:
> >
> > https://drupal.org/project/examples
> >
> >
> > Jamie Hollyhttp://hollyit.net
> >
> > On 1/13/2014 7:06 PM, Tony wrote:
> >
> >  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
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >> *Anthony Stefan Maciejowski*
> >>
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> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:21:09 -0500
> From: Chris McAndrew <chris at csmcreative.com>
> Subject: Re: [support] support Digest, Vol 133, Issue 24:  Databases
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> 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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> > Today's Topics:
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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
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > 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>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> >
> > 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
> > > >
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> >
> >
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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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> > Message: 5
> > 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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> > 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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