drupal

The drush module for Drupal has a new “sync” option to synchronize two Drupal sites, but it is undocumented and looking at the source code all it does is sync the files, not the mysql database. I haven’t seen any other public solutions that do completely sync 2 drupal sites including the databases.

Sometimes you need to enable and place a Drupal 7 block in a seen region like header, content, footer, etc., and other times you need to disable it programmatically in a custom module. So to do it you just need to create two functions:

function _start_refreshing() {

db_update('block')
->fields(array(
'status' => 1,
'weight' => -10,
'region' => 'footer',
))
->condition('module', 'mymodule')
->condition('delta', 'mymodule_delta')
->execute();

}

and

function _stop_refreshing() {

Every so often with Pressflow and Varnish you might find that your anonymous users aren't being cached via Varnish.

A quick way to see whether your anonymous pages are being served is to add some debugging headers to Varnish by adding some code like the snippet here to vcl_deliver()

sub vcl_deliver {
if (obj.hits > 0) {
set resp.http.X-Varnish-Cache = "HIT";
}
else {
set resp.http.X-Varnish-Cache = "MISS";
}
}

and hit them with

curl -I http://yoururl.com

The solution for Drupal 7.10:

/** in template.php **/

function THEME_preprocess_node(&$variables) {

//load your adblock
$adblock = block_load('block', '1');
$output .= drupal_render(_block_get_renderable_array(_block_render_blocks(array($adblock))));
$variables['ad'] = $output;
}
/** in node.tpl.php **/

$array = explode("", $body[0]['value']);
$array[1] = $ad. $array[1];
$content['body'] = implode("", $array);
print render($content['body']);

Inserting Adsense Into Content - Drupal 6.X

If you see the following error when running 'drush cron' command:


WD cron: Attempting to re-run cron while it is already running. [warning]
Cron run failed.


then you can try:


drush --yes vset cron_semaphore 0
drush cron


If it doesn't help then fire up:


drush sqlc
DELETE FROM variable WHERE name="cron_semaphore";
DELETE FROM variable WHERE name = "cron_last";
exit
drush cc all
drush cron