Nick, Social, Geek

During my last session on Drupalcamp in Barcelona I got the impression that there was a need for an updated guide on how to easily setup your own Apache Solr instance.
If you want to see why you or your company would have the need for an improved search experience you can still see my presentation on slideshare : http://www.slideshare.net/nickvh/drupal-apachesolrRead more

• apache solr
• apachesolr
• drupal
• drupal 6
• faceted search
• karmic koala
• optimisation
• planetdrupal
• search
• ubuntu

The time has finally arrived for my two favorite things to join together. Starting from Friday the 26th, Drupalcamp Spain will have its lift-off and looking at the schedule it looks to be a promising weekend packed with lots of goodies and lots of new knowledge!

I will also give a Apache Solr presentation myself and it will feature a basic explanation on how to set it up, why to set it up and the future of these technologies. Practical use cases will follow and some examples as well.Read more

• barcelona
• drupal
• planetdrupal

Ever tried to log all your email?
People come up with the craziest ideas to log email but luckely in drupal there is a nice way to log your emails to a file in your system.

I'm currently using it only for debugging but here it goes!

ps: Don't forget to replace your_module_name with, well yeah, your module name!
Requirement : Devel module
Location of log file : /tmp/drupal_debug.txt

/**
* Implementation of hook_mail_alter().
*
* @param $message A structured array containing the message to be altered. keys in this array include: id, to, subject, body, from, headers
*/
function your_module_name_mail_alter(&$message) {

dd($message);
}
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• drupal
• planetdrupal