drupal 6

Setting up multicore Apache Solr on OS X using Homebrew

Realityloop is currently working on a client project the involves adding a new region to a site and having region specific content, the client is already using Apache Solr to improve the search of their products. Deciding I needed to set up Apache Solr locally for testing to ensure that each region only returned results for it's products, using Homebrew here is how I went about it.

Tables Filter Module: Drupal 7 release

Tables Filter Module

Just released for Drupal 7! also available for Drupal 4, 5 and 6.

The Tables Filter Module is a filter that converts a simple [table ] macro into HTML encoded table, it is ideal for when you don't want to use a WYSIWYG editor but still want to allow the easy addition of tables for editors.

SignatureField: Collect written signatures with webform, via cck or in your modules using fapi

SignatureField

Over the past week I've been working on a new module called SignatureField it works with both mouse and touch devices allowing youto collect HTML5 canvas based signatures in webform, cck and in your custom modules via fapi. It then displays the collected signature as a transparent png.

Enable skype and callto protocols with Drupal 6

The bad guy is filter_xss_bad_protocol(), which allows for all kinds of protocols, but not skype. Because it uses a (hidden) variable, you can change it by hand using one of the following methods: This works or D5 as well.