Drupal

This article is a followup to Creating Tokens in Drupal 6. Part of the token module was moved into core for Drupal 7, meaning it is even easier to create and use tokens programatically. I'm going to walk through how to use tokens programatically in Drupal 7, both using existing tokens and creating new ones.

I recently made the switch from Hostgator Shared hosting to a Linode instance, and WOW. It's amazing what you can do with a single (relatively small) box dedicated to serving up a single site. Without any further ado, I want to share some tips I gathered from setting the server up, and some benchmark results from along the way.

If there's one thing I've learned about upgrading Drupal sites, it's that you're going to have to do the same 50 steps over and over and over again to fix things as they fail. It's awful, tedious work.  Luckily, Drush now has "drush site-upgrade," which makes things considerably easier.  Still it ignores a couple of the really fundamental things like making sure your existing Drupal 6 site is up to date before it starts, and copying the files directory over to your new site.  So I wrote a shell script to do all of this for me.  

Update 8/13/11 - For creating tokens in Drupal 7, see Tokens in Drupal 7.