[development] Developing for Drupal 7

[James Benstead]

Hi Josh,

Thanks for this, and for your help on the forums in trying to get DAMP
working for me - it certainly seems to offer really useful features, so I'll
persevere with getting it to work on my Mac.

--Jim

2009/10/14 Joshua Brauer <joshua at brauerranch.com>

> Hi Tim & James,
>
> To answer a couple of questions here. The DAMP installer does indeed work
> with Snow Leopard (since the September 17th release).
>
> One feature, in addition to easy installation of xdebug as in Rob's post
> http://robshouse.net/article/xdebug-komodo-and-acquia-drupal-stack-installer,
> is the DAMP stack installer makes importing existing sites and setting up
> multiple sites running Drupal 5 - Drupal 7 very easy. For me this is a great
> boon in testing where I can do all the steps manually or can use the import
> feature to spin up YALDI (Yet Another Local Drupal Instance) with ease.
>
>  Thanks,
> Josh
>
> --
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>
> On Oct 14, 2009, at 11:12 AM, James Benstead wrote:
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> Having checked out the comments in http://acquia.com/blog/stacking-drupalit seems that Acquia DAMP still doesn't support Snow Leopard - but this is a
> little weird, as I have got ADAMP working on a clean user account on Snow
> Leopard.
>
> In my own user account, I have done sudo killall httpd to make sure that
> there are no Apache instances running, so I don't think it's that either.
>
> I'm now set up with MacGDBp and XDebug and Textmate, and it seems to be
> working fine - now to dive in to D7 core!
>
> --J
>
> 2009/10/14 T L <tloud365 at gmail.com>
>
>> Hey James,
>>
>> Do you already have an instance of apache running?  OSX ships with apache,
>> I think you can turn it on accidentally by enabling web sharing or something
>> along those lines--sorry I don't have 10.6.  All apache installations run on
>> port 80 by default, and you can get a slightly cryptic error similar to what
>> you are seeing (not rocking damp here so I am only guessing).
>>
>> As far as damp vs xampp, I'm sure damp is a great product and probably has
>> some nice drupal integrations.  You can run drupal on any stack tho--I've
>> had good success setting people up with MAMP.  So trying another stack may
>> resolve things or at least help you figure out if your issues are
>> application specific.
>>
>> Debuggers can be a little tricky--there's a nice vim php debugger guide
>> you can easily google for.  I wouldn't recommend the vim route if you aren't
>> already familiar with vim tho.  Other than that, I believe eclipse has
>> support for debugging integration.
>>
>> Best,
>> Tim
>>
>> Tim Loudon
>> t: 781.686.6096
>>
>> On Oct 13, 2009, at 7:45 PM, James Benstead <james.benstead at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Daniel, Michael, Moshe. It seems like a combination of working
>> through the issue queues and using a step-through debugger is probably the
>> best way to proceed.
>>
>> For the record I'm going to try
>> <http://robshouse.net/article/xdebug-komodo-and-acquia-drupal-stack-installer>
>> http://robshouse.net/article/xdebug-komodo-and-acquia-drupal-stack-installer.
>> I'm going to use it with XAMPP rather than the Acquia DAMP stack through (I
>> can't actually get Acquia DAMP to install on my Mac - see
>> <http://acquia.com/node/911603>http://acquia.com/node/911603 - any
>> tips?). Does the Acquia stack have any particular advantages?
>>
>> Thanks once more, I'm off to set up a debugger. Wish me luck!
>>
>> 2009/10/12 Daniel F. Kudwien < <news at unleashedmind.com>
>> news at unleashedmind.com>
>>
>>> If you think you are prepared to roll some patches, then *now* is the
>>> right
>>> time to immediately start:
>>>
>>>
>>> Critical API clean-ups for Drupal 7:
>>>
>>> <http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?status[]=Open&issue_tags=D7+A%0API+clean-up>
>>> http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?status[]=Open&issue_tags=D7+A
>>> PI+clean-up
>>>
>>>
>>> The ~10 exceptions for Drupal 7:
>>>
>>> <http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?issue_tags=Exception%20code%2%0A0freeze>
>>> http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?issue_tags=Exception%20code%2
>>> 0freeze
>>>
>>>
>>> General list of nice to have Drupal core API clean-ups:
>>>
>>> <http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?status[]=Open&version[]=7.x&i%0Assue_tags=API+clean-up>
>>> http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?status[]=Open&version[]=7.x&i
>>> ssue_tags=API+clean-up
>>>
>>>
>>> We have like 4 days to get all of those ready and make D7 really shine.
>>>
>>>
>>> If you can roll patches, but don't know that much about Drupal core yet:
>>>
>>>  <http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?issue_tags=Novice>
>>> http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?issue_tags=Novice
>>>
>>>
>>> Welcome to the club! :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> sun
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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