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Peter gave a Killer introduction this past weekend: here is a link to the post summarizing it: http://groups.drupal.org/node/14919

Please note the addition by Dries below!

Here is a help file that I created for myself on how to access the database while writing a module. I thought that it might be useful. Later this week, I will create a post recapping Objects, Arrays and Functions: the stuff we talked about at the beginning of session 2 on Sunday at Drupalcamp, this weekend. Enjoy

<?php
// remember to bring the global variables into Scope
global $user;
/*the db_query() function does the selecting, inserting, deleting, and updating

First of all, thanks to everyone who came to Drupalcamp this weekend and thanks to those to attended Theming 101... I hope I didn't confuse you... and if I did, I am happy that Robbie was there to clarify /add to the content. One of the questions that we often ask eachother in is "What is your favorite program/software". While I want to always say Photoshop or Flash or most often "Drupal", really the only true answer is Ghost. I think of that today because the sessions brought to mind several files that I created before for my own reference and I would like to share them with you .... however, I had to go into my back ups (I back up my whole laptop every Monday Morning at 1am) to get the file.. yeah, I love Ghost.

I will be hosting a "Drupal Theming 101" on Sunday, Sept 14, 2008 at Drupal Camp. This intro follows the format of the Drupal 6 Themers Guide because

1. it is killer and
2. it is a well written robust guide

... and why duplicate something that is excellent anyway.

Ok, so this morning I was updating a block (notice that I am talking about blocks here) and I was trying to have a list of recent comments show up in the right sidebar. So, i am working with d6 and i want to show the comment title. I enable the views, select who comment title. All of a sudden, I get the white page of death with "Fatal error ..." and really after that, you don't need to know much more. hmmm. ok, I can go back to the previous page, not because the server is delivering the page, but because FF has cached it. When i click on the link, "fatal error' again.

i was answering ads on craig's list last night when i ran across someone looking for someone to build a site in "Indexhibit". I thought, "what the hell is that?" so, i wrote back, saying i was a Drupal evangelist and i can do it in Drupal; then i went to check it out .

this past weekend saw me work on two paintings. you probably don't know this, but i have been working on a series of "hand" paintings for about a year now. it is funny, but in our modern art context, you might be thinking in that i am creating paintings with my hands. um, well, i mean i am ... but not in the "slap-yor-mamma" way. I mean that the subject matter are simply hands.