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Entity registration module

The Entity Registration module is a nice module for allowing and tracking user registrations on any entity. It even has some nice extras: you can restrict the number of people that can sign up, integrate with drupal commerce for fee-based signups,...

Extra requirements

As part of a project I was asked to deliver an event signup system. A lot of the functionality was already provided by the entity registration module, but some parts were missing:

I was working on a site, and suddenly saw that the urls were a bit funky. At the end of each url I found some hash, like this:

#.UMBYwJPjnMA

At first I wanted to know what was causing this. I googled it, but couldn't find anything drupal related. So I started looking into the drupal modules. I searched for hook_init. But this didn't help me. Then I googled again and finally came across this post.

I suppose you read my blog post on custom RSS feeds. I wanted to give a small update, as the solution described there was not sufficient. In the end I needed to output an XML file and every item had to be in the same format. As I was outputting the last node for three different content types, I needed to do some custom coding. The node_feed function was not the ideal solution.

I ended up making my own node_feed function. Here's the code:

Last week I went to the drupal government days. On thursday I was able to have a quick chat with Dries. And apparently my friend Nektarios Sylligardakis took a picture of it. Thanks!

On thursday evening the 3rd of March 2011, there was a special on Dries Buytaert and Acquia. The fragment is in Dutch.

SOLR?

When having your drupal site it is good to know your search options. There is the standard drupal search, but that could slow down the site when reaching a decent amount of nodes. Ask the drupal.org maintainers! An option at that point is SOLR.

You are going to use a dedicated search machine that will index your content without having an impact on your drupal site. That's great! But how can you use SOLR? Read on.

The book

A few months ago I read Cracking drupal. It is a good book if you want to understand what the vulnerabilities of your drupal site are.